That’s right, the Cool Coke Can Pyramid, which I have been building in the corner of my office for quite some time, has now completed 8 full levels. That’s a total of 120 coke cans (actually, a few are Dr Pepper, and there’s one lone Sprite messing up the color scheme).
I could go higher than 8 levels, maybe, but it’s starting to feel a bit shaky, so I think I will leave it as is and begin working on some other project with all of the coke cans that I generate. (And yes, someday I’ll take gather them all up and and recycle them.)
Way back in high school I was in a summer program at Hendrix College. We stayed in the dorms. In one of the rooms several guys were building a CCCP. Once the base got too big, it became a Cool Coke Tower reaching from floor to ceiling.
One day I was sitting in a room a few doors down and I could hear the distinctive “bomp” of someone bouncing a tennis ball against the wall.
“Stop it,” voice one said, “you’re going to hit the tower.”
“Bomp bomp bomp”
“I mean it. Quit.”
“bomp bomp CRASH”
Suddenly the tennisball bouncer ran by the room door closely followed by the Tower Keeper.
Instead of rebuilding the tower, they cleared the cans away.
Woo-hoo! The CCCP is now a CCCCP (completed cool coke can pyramid).
The next step in attaining true CCCCC (cool Coke can construction creation) mastery is to build more complex structures.
You could start on a cool Coke can true arch (CCCTA). The local architecture students really like building arches on campus out of unconventional materials. You could do something like that yourself. You could get your whole office to help build arches. Maybe you could have an entire arcade (ha!) going all the way from your wing to the guys in marketing.
In the Washington Post a few years ago was the story of a high-ranking civil servant who upset his boss (who could not fire him) so much that he was relieved of all duties. He wrote two novels and built two arches from the single styrofoam cup of coffee he bought each morning. Went from one wall all the way to the other.
