October 29, 2011

• Smells Like Skunk

  This happened in August, but I have to share it…

  The evening prior Chris, my boss, had let his dog out to do its duty. He heard some commotion and then the dog streaked back in to the house smelling of skunk. The next day Chris arrived to work paranoid that he might smell like skunk. He spent the first fifteen minutes of working asking people if he smelled. He definitely didn’t, but I could not fail to seize the opportunity, and thus sent out the following to everyone in our office, except Chris:

  

  That is right. Twenty minutes after sending out this e-mail, my co-coworkers had convinced Chris that he smelled and he left for the day. Apparently when he was in the kitchen having a conversation, someone casually walked through and said “Huh… what’s the smell?” And later on someone came down the stairs and said “Chris, I can smell you up here. You have to go home.”

  Typically if he leaves the office, he comes by my desk in person and says that he is headed out. But this time he ran straight for home, so I had no chance to show him the clever antics I had pulled. Then I got worried, because at some point he was going to learn what had happened. I figured that I had better break the news to him, so I headed over to Walgreens, purchased two cards, and put them on his desk to find Monday morning…

  

  

  

  

  

  

  He signed it. And I posted it for all to see at my desk.

  * If you use reddit, you may have seen this before. It actually made the front page over there.

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