So I made a "prop" tonight at work for the Copy Center. Focker and i had taken down a damaged file cart display and he removed one of the legs from it, commenting on how much damage it might cause when used as a club.
To that end, I applied a P-Touch label to it that read "Solution for Problem Customers" and left it up at the copy center, which has had quite a few SCs lately (though none that I've witnessed aside from Bipolar Lady).
They thought it was hilarious.
Which reminds me of a prop I made this past summer that I don't think I ever posted about.
I'd been throwing yet another huge pile of cardboard that Captain Jellico had left me into the baler when I came across an enormous cardboard tube. It was not unlike a paper towel tube, only it was a good three feet long, 3 inches in diameter, and the cardboard was REALLY thick and strong.
I was about to throw it out when an idea hit me. I grabbed a roll of white paper towels and attached two to the end of the the tube with rubber bands, then crumpled up several more and stuffed them down the other end of the tube. Then I used a black sharpie to write "FOCKER'S DOOB TOOB" on the side and stashed the thing behind the baler.
You should have SEEN his face when I showed the thing to him. Oh man, it was PRICELESS. And the whole thing was made funnier by the fact that since I'd stored it with the paper towel end down, the towels had picked up some dust from the side of the baler, so blowing into the far end of the tube blew a cloud of dust int he air, mimicking what such a device *might* look like if it was used for real, not that I'd know anythign about that.
Unfortunately, Focker decided to destroy it later that night by smashing it over the edge of the service desk counter, whereupon he found how many paper towels were inside.
Focker: Holy SHIT there's a lot of paper towels in here!!!! Jeeze Dave, were you trying to make this thing FUNCTIONAL?!
Anyone else have amusing props that have turned up at work?
To that end, I applied a P-Touch label to it that read "Solution for Problem Customers" and left it up at the copy center, which has had quite a few SCs lately (though none that I've witnessed aside from Bipolar Lady).
They thought it was hilarious.
Which reminds me of a prop I made this past summer that I don't think I ever posted about.
I'd been throwing yet another huge pile of cardboard that Captain Jellico had left me into the baler when I came across an enormous cardboard tube. It was not unlike a paper towel tube, only it was a good three feet long, 3 inches in diameter, and the cardboard was REALLY thick and strong.
I was about to throw it out when an idea hit me. I grabbed a roll of white paper towels and attached two to the end of the the tube with rubber bands, then crumpled up several more and stuffed them down the other end of the tube. Then I used a black sharpie to write "FOCKER'S DOOB TOOB" on the side and stashed the thing behind the baler.
You should have SEEN his face when I showed the thing to him. Oh man, it was PRICELESS. And the whole thing was made funnier by the fact that since I'd stored it with the paper towel end down, the towels had picked up some dust from the side of the baler, so blowing into the far end of the tube blew a cloud of dust int he air, mimicking what such a device *might* look like if it was used for real, not that I'd know anythign about that.
Unfortunately, Focker decided to destroy it later that night by smashing it over the edge of the service desk counter, whereupon he found how many paper towels were inside.
Focker: Holy SHIT there's a lot of paper towels in here!!!! Jeeze Dave, were you trying to make this thing FUNCTIONAL?!
Anyone else have amusing props that have turned up at work?
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