Inspired by this thread, I thought I’d tell the tale of my colleague who has obviously been targetted by some power above:
About two weeks ago, he kept getting pains in his eye - over a day or two they got really unbearable. He’s had this before and was prescribed some eye drops, so he goes off to the doctor. Doctor gives him some eyedrops for temporary relief (they make his pupil get really huge. It’s disturbing.), and tells him to go to the hospital.
At the hospital, they take some blood samples (8 in total, I believe), and give him some more eye drops. Some of these have to be refrigerated, which apparently makes it painful when he puts them in. All of the drops he’s been given lead to blurred vision, so he struggled somewhat with his computer-related job.
He’s still on the course of eyedrops when the weekend rolls around. On Monday, I ask him how his weekend has been. Not good, apparently - he and his girlfriend discovered that their boiler has stopped working, and they have no heating or hot water. He works from home that day while a man comes to have a look at it. He is told in no uncertain terms that not only is the boiler completely dead, but the whole heating system will have to come out.
The following day he works from home while a man comes to fit an immersion heater in the hot water tank so he can at least have some hot water. This is also the day before his girlfriend goes to New Zealand for 3 and a half weeks.
The next day, he comes into work - “how’s it going?” I ask, as you do. “Not good, I’m off to the hospital in a minute”. Enquiring further, I discover that the night before, he tripped going up the stairs, and caught his right hand in the bannister. He can’t now move any of the fingers on that hand, and is in considerable pain. (I need not mention the psychological pain of your best hand being injured as your girlfriend goes to the other side of the world).
Off he pops to the hospital, and it’s not a fracture, which is good. He gets it all splinted up, and then spends the rest of the day typing with one hand and staring at the screen (which is still blurry due to his eye drops).
The following day was relatively uneventful, and then it was Easter weekend.
On Tuesday, we go back into work, and my colleague’s not there. I discover that at 3 in the morning, he got a phone call to say that his brother has been taken very ill and is in hospital, 200 miles away. He drove there through the night, and is going to have to stay there till his brother’s fit to go home. Their parents are on holiday.
Well as each day goes by, it gets clear that his brother can go home, but needs to be cared for. So my colleague stays up there, looking after him, until his parents get back on Friday. He decides to stay there over the weekend - make the most of a bad job.
This morning, expecting him back, I am surprised to get a message to the effect that he’s staying in, awaiting the gas man. Apparently, when he got home on Sunday night, he could smell gas. He rang the boiler people, and said “hey, since you guys came here, there’s a gas leak”. Someone came and had a look, and found that the leak is somewhere under the house - so they turn his gas supply off. “When you get your entire heating system done, make sure you get all the gas piping done too”, they say. His wallet weeps to itself in the corner.
So, I put it to you - which one of you has the voodoo doll? And, presumably, the voodoo doll’s house?
