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A colleague and friend of mine, before his vacation, left a portion of his lunch in his filing cabinet. He occasionally does this with the intention of finishing the food for dinner. While I'm all for not wasting food, it's funny and somewhat ridiculous how the food has been left there for a few weeks without anyone discovering it. Only today, when the foul odour became out of hand did we investigate the origins.
I admire him for his diligence because he often stays past office hours to finish work and thus have the need to ration a portion of lunch into dinner, he's saving money and the environment at the same time! And being busy as he is, I can see how he might have forgotten about the food.
Heck, I've done that a few times myself.
The punchline is that there is a board meeting happening in the office today as well!
The natural laws of physics are working against us! Damn you diffusion!
Luckily though, they're safely sealed inside the board room, door closed with a small opening.
Today was a very fun way to start in the office. Now I'm working in a very relaxing chair in the foyer area to escape the foul odour - at least some good has come from this.
So really, should leftovers be filed under "L" or "F" for food?
PS. Oh... this could become a science experiment in the future! We should have kept the leftover food and see if it will evolve into a living organism in a few billion years. I think eventually it may grow feet.
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| Artist's depiction: Mutated take-out box of death |
Since I have had to sit next to the stench all morning, I propose a new office rule.
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Very good rule. Perhaps we should talk to the office manager about that. But wait, isn't there a conflict of interest?! D:
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