Don't try this at home...
...or at work.
We have a set of hand cups, similar to this, here at work.
The other afternoon, we were bored and looking for ways to amuse ourselves till it was time to go home. In case you don't know what these suction cups are for, they stick to glass and help to remove it easily.
I have no idea why, but there's a set right by my desk. It's been there a couple of weeks now. So, being bored and curious, my fearless coworker picked them up and proceeded to stick them to the glass wall of our kitchen/meeting room. How were we to know that the little bar in the middle was the release handle?
Anyway, he stuck the cups to the glass and we had a laugh and wondered what they were doing in our office in the first place, and more specifically, what they were doing just left half way up the hall on a box. We made dumb Spider Man jokes, saying we'd try to scale the walls with them, if we had another set. Then he went to pull them off the glass. There was a moment of panic as my fearless coworker's arm almost got removed from its socket and the wall creaked, when he pulled and the cups didn't budge.
That's when we noticed the release handle and breathed a big sigh of relief that a) nobody saw us b) the whole wall didn't come down (thanks to dodgy building work).
Those cups are still sitting where we left them the other day, just a few feet away from us. It is soooo tempting to stick 'em to the glass again, just because someone might try to pull 'em off and the wall might fall down.
Kinda like a 'wet paint' sign. You know you shouldn't, but you just have to touch.
We have a set of hand cups, similar to this, here at work.
The other afternoon, we were bored and looking for ways to amuse ourselves till it was time to go home. In case you don't know what these suction cups are for, they stick to glass and help to remove it easily.
I have no idea why, but there's a set right by my desk. It's been there a couple of weeks now. So, being bored and curious, my fearless coworker picked them up and proceeded to stick them to the glass wall of our kitchen/meeting room. How were we to know that the little bar in the middle was the release handle?
Anyway, he stuck the cups to the glass and we had a laugh and wondered what they were doing in our office in the first place, and more specifically, what they were doing just left half way up the hall on a box. We made dumb Spider Man jokes, saying we'd try to scale the walls with them, if we had another set. Then he went to pull them off the glass. There was a moment of panic as my fearless coworker's arm almost got removed from its socket and the wall creaked, when he pulled and the cups didn't budge.
That's when we noticed the release handle and breathed a big sigh of relief that a) nobody saw us b) the whole wall didn't come down (thanks to dodgy building work).
Those cups are still sitting where we left them the other day, just a few feet away from us. It is soooo tempting to stick 'em to the glass again, just because someone might try to pull 'em off and the wall might fall down.
Kinda like a 'wet paint' sign. You know you shouldn't, but you just have to touch.
posted by E in Oz at 2:01 pm
these thoughts escaped my brain at 2:01 pm
4 Comments:
I think you owe it to the world to see how high up the window you can get...
I agree with Ian. And we want pics.
Stupid blogger ate my original response to this. In short, we're working on it, as long as we can't get busted. Ha!
What's wrong with getting busted? Are there really still crodgety old bosses with nothing better to do than bust people for having a little suction cup fun?
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