Robbie vs His Health
Like I mentioned below, Robbie is, for lack of a better term, my boss. One his "quirks" is his bizarre love of Hostess Cherry Pies. I call this fondness of Hostess Cherry Pies bizarre because the sheer amount of pies he eats on a daily basis and the fact that he keeps track of his pie intake.
Each day, Robbie comes into work carrying a large duffle bag. This duffle bag is filled with cherry pies. No one knows for certain how many pies Robbie keeps on him at one time, but guessing by the sag of that bag, there's probably over 100 pies in there. Robbie has his own office, and we've asked him a few times why he doesn't just the leave the pies locked in his office. His only response is, "The pies must be near me."
Robbie does not consume the entire bag of pies, but he certainly eats more than a healthy person should. He has an Excel spreadsheet set up to keep track of how many pies he eats each day. He prints out this spreadsheet and posts it on the bulletin board in the breakroom at lunch time and he updates it at the end of the day. Today, he ate 11 pies by lunchtime, and 12 more by the end of the day. According to his spreadsheet, he's averaging 19.3 pies a day this month, and 18.4 a day for this year, so 23 is a little above average.
A few months ago, he bit into a cherry pie only to find it was an apple pie. He became extremely upset and took the rest of the day off. When he came in the next day, he had a 4-page handwritten letter to the Hostess company expressing his distress. He had Sarah, our receptionist, type it for him. Sarah wouldn't give any of us a copy, but she said it was just full of rambling profanities and non-sequiturs. Apparently, he got his point across, because they sent him coupons for free pies.
This man takes his pies very seriously.
Each day, Robbie comes into work carrying a large duffle bag. This duffle bag is filled with cherry pies. No one knows for certain how many pies Robbie keeps on him at one time, but guessing by the sag of that bag, there's probably over 100 pies in there. Robbie has his own office, and we've asked him a few times why he doesn't just the leave the pies locked in his office. His only response is, "The pies must be near me."
Robbie does not consume the entire bag of pies, but he certainly eats more than a healthy person should. He has an Excel spreadsheet set up to keep track of how many pies he eats each day. He prints out this spreadsheet and posts it on the bulletin board in the breakroom at lunch time and he updates it at the end of the day. Today, he ate 11 pies by lunchtime, and 12 more by the end of the day. According to his spreadsheet, he's averaging 19.3 pies a day this month, and 18.4 a day for this year, so 23 is a little above average.
A few months ago, he bit into a cherry pie only to find it was an apple pie. He became extremely upset and took the rest of the day off. When he came in the next day, he had a 4-page handwritten letter to the Hostess company expressing his distress. He had Sarah, our receptionist, type it for him. Sarah wouldn't give any of us a copy, but she said it was just full of rambling profanities and non-sequiturs. Apparently, he got his point across, because they sent him coupons for free pies.
This man takes his pies very seriously.