There’s a story to be told here, one I’m not proud of but does leave me in a sense of wonder.
A group of young men were in the hallway of their employer playing with a water balloon sling. The reason they had the sling is legitimate but if we’re honest with ourselves, as we should be, we ought to realize that the sling should usually be used outdoors or in very large spaces. So the young men are in the hall way with the sling, using a t-shirt as ammo and in their rehearsal one of them lets loose and the shirt flies upwards against the cement wall and does something unexpected.
Normally, or in past times when they did this, the shirt rebounded off the wall and back harmlessly to them. This time though, the young man launching must have put the extra oomph into it, or perhaps his angle was off, or perhaps both. Regardless, this time it hit the wall and bounced nearly straight up, punching a hole in the corner of one of the ceiling tiles.
Now, here I ask you all, how far into this story would you have gotten before being fired by your bosses? The amazing thing is that I am the young man who did such a thing, and I (as far as I know) am without penalty or punishment.
The above story occurred at last night’s Magic game. We were in one of the service hallways which has a 12 ft ceiling and in the past it went as described but when I did it last night, it launched into the ceiling. A building maintenance guy came over and I explained the whole thing was an accident and I took full blame, I didn’t try to hide it or shirk responsibility. He grumbled that it was always an accident with us and that he wasn’t sure if he had any tiles to replace the broken one.
I then told my boss immediately and cleansed my guilty conscience, because I do have an amazing guiltius gland. I told her what I did and she seemed to not really care. I told her I’d do whatever I needed to or pay whatever needed to be paid. She just shrugged it off.
So I don’t have closure on it, but I did go out onto the arena floor right after and launch the t-shirts into mid-upper bowl. It’s entirely too much fun.
If you launched a t-shirt from a slingshot at work most jobs would have you fired before the t-shirt landed. I get paid to launch them. Granted, not into ceiling tiles.
– IG