Calculator of the Month Club
Oct. 6th, 2006 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidlevineIt's happened again.
On the first day of every month since June, I have received a large calculator in my interplant mailbox at work. They are all the same, except for color, and all but one of them work. The sender's name on the interplant envelope varies ("Marketing", "Repairs", "Roman Polanski") and the previous line on the envelope is always in our Plano office. But I know the sender is really right here in Beaverton, because s/he actually picked up a previous envelope from MY DESK and re-used it once.
As pranks go, this is harmless. Even beneficial, because they're actually quite nice calculators. But I don't know who is doing it or why. (I do have some suspicions.)
How odd.
On the first day of every month since June, I have received a large calculator in my interplant mailbox at work. They are all the same, except for color, and all but one of them work. The sender's name on the interplant envelope varies ("Marketing", "Repairs", "Roman Polanski") and the previous line on the envelope is always in our Plano office. But I know the sender is really right here in Beaverton, because s/he actually picked up a previous envelope from MY DESK and re-used it once.
As pranks go, this is harmless. Even beneficial, because they're actually quite nice calculators. But I don't know who is doing it or why. (I do have some suspicions.)
How odd.
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Date: 2006-10-06 07:39 pm (UTC)Its like you have your own personal calculator fairy.
I wish some prankster would start leaving me calculators at work...
Timers would be even better in my case, but I would settle for calculators.
I always end up breaking mine somehow.
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Date: 2006-10-06 07:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-06 07:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-06 08:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-06 08:43 pm (UTC)intelligent pranksters
Date: 2006-10-06 08:50 pm (UTC)Re: intelligent pranksters
Date: 2006-10-07 06:55 am (UTC)Well, by the numbers, it seems harmless enough.
Date: 2006-10-06 09:11 pm (UTC)(And now I have an imaginary parrot on my shoulder, squawking "Polly Want A Mathbook! Polly Want A Mathbook! Awwwk! Awwwk!")
Perhaps this means that you should spend this Halloween as The Count from Sesame Street.
Re: Well, by the numbers, it seems harmless enough.
Date: 2006-10-06 09:12 pm (UTC)Re: Well, by the numbers, it seems harmless enough.
Date: 2006-10-06 09:29 pm (UTC)I suspect traditional vampire drag which has been literally encrusted with calculators would be entirely appropriate.
A more than suitable follow-up to your cyberpunk costume from a few years ago.
(I still can't get over how good Kate's pencil costume looked, although that might have been a different year.)
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Date: 2006-10-06 10:22 pm (UTC)Calculating? No, something doesn't add up. Its irrational, but I think they're just trying to be divisive. Maybe they think you're kinda square? Perhaps you should try to log this? Pehaps they think you commited a sin? Are you sure its only one person, look for a cosiner. Its good they're sending them to you linearly and not exponentially.
Sorry, I'll get off my tangent now.
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Date: 2006-10-06 11:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-07 10:36 pm (UTC)No, that was intentional. I didn't want to be too base.
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Date: 2006-10-07 06:16 pm (UTC)(Did you think there were any left?)