Sunday, July 8, 2007

*Office Pranks*

Once upon a time, there was a boy in Dubai who went to high school. Like all high schools across the world, they required their students to wrap their school books in brown paper. (At home, we used grocery bags but you know what I mean) This boy lived in Dubai, a small community at the time, and attended a private school with his 2 sisters. He decided not to wrap his books. Over and over again, his teachers asked him to comply. He refused. He was sent to the Principal's office and she asked, "Why didn't you cover your books in brown paper?" With a straight face, he told her that his family was too poor and couldn't afford brown paper. Silence. Then, "You realize that I know your family and you are not poor." No deal. No paper. Defiance (as much as you can in high school) Many years later, that same boy grew up and started working at a company with his sister. He was moving back to Dubai from the US and was gone for 3 weeks. His sister randomly tells the brown paper story and his evil co-workers run with it.
Defiant no more! I don't know if you have ever considered what it takes to individually wrap every item on your desk but I am sure you are thinking about it now. Let me tell you that from work boots to mouse pad to paper clips, it takes a team of 5-7 approximately 1 hour to get a pretty good result! Highly recommended to any office mate with a sense of humor.

PS) We completely blamed his kid sister for the idea. Literally.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hahaha... awesome. We used to have to cover our books with brown paper also in India.

Abhi

vixen said...

freakin' awesome!

i'm so proud of you guys!

Unknown said...

HAHAHA....HI-STERICAL :)

Anonymous said...

RAKate, you're my hero.

I finally got caught up; nice blog by the way.