George Mason all the way!
So I took the carpet squares out of that girl’s cubicle a while ago. I incrementally took them out over the course of three days as opportunities arose, which made for an exciting and enjoyable three days as she would always laugh upon finding that another one was missing. Originally, I wasn’t planning on keeping them because I expected her to definitively finger me as the culprit from the outset, but she accepted my brief initial submissions of innocence. That is why I ended up taking all of the squares that weren’t pinned down by the desk or surrounding cubicle walls (5 in all). One of them was especially funny because it had been sort of glued to the ground (whereas the others were entirely free) so that removing it left a large swatch of floor that was extremely sticky. Hearing her complain about the stickiness throughout the day following the removal of that square was hilarious.
Anyway, though she often made humorous accusations towards me (e.g. while mentioning that the squares were stolen to co-workers she would give me the evil eye or make emphatic gestures toward me), she never was fully convinced I had them nor really pressed me for them back. So I ended up hiding the five squares for about two weeks while I was trying to formulate a humorous approach to give them back. I eventually settled on dispersing them in random hidden places in an around her cubicle so that over time she would eventually find them all. I crammed the first one into one of her desk drawers so that the drawer required significant force to pull open, and I enjoyed hearing her recount the tale of finding it the next day to her cubemate with her giggling the entire time. I had other plans for the remaining four (like cramming one in the microwave so that when she opened the door it would fly out), but never got a chance to implement them because someone was always around or her schedule was too hard to predict (she has been in the simulation lab so often recently). I did manage to change the wallpaper on her desktop one time when she forgot to lock her computer. I changed it to a picture of various carpet square samples to taunt her.
So come last Thursday (about three weeks after the initial theft), I still had 4 squares to try and creatively give back. Unfortunately, the janitor came in and started vacuuming our area that day, and upon seeing the missing carpet squares decided to replenish them from some carpet square stockpile he had. This disappointed me, especially because I now have four random carpet squares that I don’t know what to do with. I figure I should just give them back to the janitor the next time I see him, though I have tossed around the idea of hiding them around her cubicle anyway just for fun. I also thought about stealing all the new squares as well and creating some sort of carpet square chandelier to hang over her desk from the overhead light. I think that would be pretty sweet, but it would require a lot of time and some supplies, and I am pretty lazy.
So that was one of the highlights of my day on Thursday, but there was another event that was even better. I have also started a feud with another girl in my workgroup, and had been looking to do something to her for a while. I eventually decided on adding something to her weekly schedule that she has posted over her desk. I took it down one night and created my own document that had the exact same words and formatting as hers, but added a line at the end stating that on Wednesday it was scheduled for her to be nice to me for a change (this was on Tuesday night). When she saw it the next day we had a good natured war of words about it, with me finishing the conversation with the disbelief that she would schedule something like that and then not even follow it (for some reason she was convinced that I had manipulated it, jeesh).
That night, I printed out a new copy that had a time on Thursday during which she had scheduled to bow down to my glory. Upon seeing this on Thursday, we had another good-natured argument where she determined that she couldn’t follow that schedule because I had no glory to bow to. I started fighting back, and eventually she called up another co-worker on the phone (whose cubicle is only steps away) and started insulting me non-stop right in front of me. I then picked up some scotch tape that was on her desk, and started tearing off pieces and adhering them to her desk as flush as possible to make them difficult to get off. She just kept insulting me over the phone so I just kept taping up her desk.
By the time she finally relented and hung up, I had placed about 30-40 pieces of tape randomly around her desk and drawers. Upon fully realizing this, she got up and went to my cubicle and started trashing it! She threw all the papers on my desk onto the ground, turned my computer monitor around, took my phone off the receiver, rolled my chair away, and otherwise disrupted every possible item on and around my desk. I of course pretended to be furious at this development, and made sure to tell everyone who had been stirred by the ruckus that she had completely trashed my cubicle and that I was devastated. My real reaction was that it was about time that someone turned the screws back on me and didn’t just let me have free reign of things. Of course, this only makes me want to do something even better to get her back. Any suggestions?
Week 9: a gain of 0.8 lbs to 181.4 lbs
Anyway, though she often made humorous accusations towards me (e.g. while mentioning that the squares were stolen to co-workers she would give me the evil eye or make emphatic gestures toward me), she never was fully convinced I had them nor really pressed me for them back. So I ended up hiding the five squares for about two weeks while I was trying to formulate a humorous approach to give them back. I eventually settled on dispersing them in random hidden places in an around her cubicle so that over time she would eventually find them all. I crammed the first one into one of her desk drawers so that the drawer required significant force to pull open, and I enjoyed hearing her recount the tale of finding it the next day to her cubemate with her giggling the entire time. I had other plans for the remaining four (like cramming one in the microwave so that when she opened the door it would fly out), but never got a chance to implement them because someone was always around or her schedule was too hard to predict (she has been in the simulation lab so often recently). I did manage to change the wallpaper on her desktop one time when she forgot to lock her computer. I changed it to a picture of various carpet square samples to taunt her.
So come last Thursday (about three weeks after the initial theft), I still had 4 squares to try and creatively give back. Unfortunately, the janitor came in and started vacuuming our area that day, and upon seeing the missing carpet squares decided to replenish them from some carpet square stockpile he had. This disappointed me, especially because I now have four random carpet squares that I don’t know what to do with. I figure I should just give them back to the janitor the next time I see him, though I have tossed around the idea of hiding them around her cubicle anyway just for fun. I also thought about stealing all the new squares as well and creating some sort of carpet square chandelier to hang over her desk from the overhead light. I think that would be pretty sweet, but it would require a lot of time and some supplies, and I am pretty lazy.
So that was one of the highlights of my day on Thursday, but there was another event that was even better. I have also started a feud with another girl in my workgroup, and had been looking to do something to her for a while. I eventually decided on adding something to her weekly schedule that she has posted over her desk. I took it down one night and created my own document that had the exact same words and formatting as hers, but added a line at the end stating that on Wednesday it was scheduled for her to be nice to me for a change (this was on Tuesday night). When she saw it the next day we had a good natured war of words about it, with me finishing the conversation with the disbelief that she would schedule something like that and then not even follow it (for some reason she was convinced that I had manipulated it, jeesh).
That night, I printed out a new copy that had a time on Thursday during which she had scheduled to bow down to my glory. Upon seeing this on Thursday, we had another good-natured argument where she determined that she couldn’t follow that schedule because I had no glory to bow to. I started fighting back, and eventually she called up another co-worker on the phone (whose cubicle is only steps away) and started insulting me non-stop right in front of me. I then picked up some scotch tape that was on her desk, and started tearing off pieces and adhering them to her desk as flush as possible to make them difficult to get off. She just kept insulting me over the phone so I just kept taping up her desk.
By the time she finally relented and hung up, I had placed about 30-40 pieces of tape randomly around her desk and drawers. Upon fully realizing this, she got up and went to my cubicle and started trashing it! She threw all the papers on my desk onto the ground, turned my computer monitor around, took my phone off the receiver, rolled my chair away, and otherwise disrupted every possible item on and around my desk. I of course pretended to be furious at this development, and made sure to tell everyone who had been stirred by the ruckus that she had completely trashed my cubicle and that I was devastated. My real reaction was that it was about time that someone turned the screws back on me and didn’t just let me have free reign of things. Of course, this only makes me want to do something even better to get her back. Any suggestions?
Week 9: a gain of 0.8 lbs to 181.4 lbs