| | Birthday surprise(s)
This last week was very interesting. There were a couple birthdays in our group. Our group is small, and I along with another coworker are the unofficial "recreation committee" for our group. This came about because we usually do stuff for people's birthdays.
So the first birthday was a guy who has been at the company for a very, Very, VERY long time. His employee number is in the single digits! Because he's been here for so long, he has quiet some seniority even though he's not a manager. He if often joking around and cracking jokes at people, which leads to some friendly "grudges". For example, we arranged a water balloon, birthday surprise for another one of our coworkers before (yes, I helped fill and supply the ammo  ). After all the balloons were thrown... this guy goes back inside... fills an empty coffee pot with cold water, sneaks up behind the birthday guy and dumps it over his head! So this time, the guy that had water dumped on him wants revenge. He conveniently "suggests" that we do a water balloon birthday for the "elderly statesman". Not only did I oblige, but we had it planned out much better this time. I and my other reccom (recreation committee) partner in crime filled about 50 water balloons the night before. Then we drew out our plan of attack, which was as follows:
* One of his smoking buddies (they smoke, so they have to go outside in the parking lot to do it) would lure him out around 3pm.
* A couple people armed with water balloons would hide behind some of the cars before 3.
* The group that usually goes out for an afternoon stroll would head out with 2-3 water balloons hidden in bags or pockets, about 5 minutes after the "target" was in position.
* The strolling group would walk towards the "target's" left side.
* As soon as the strolling group had "blocked" off the left side.. the remaining people (about 8) would rush out the doors and charge at our "target" with the water balloons.
* Basically, when we rushed out... the people hiding behind cars, the strolling group and us.. would launch our "attack". 
Oh man... we got him GOOOOOOD. He did make a good run towards his right and farther into the parking lot, but it was to no avail. He got pwned. Luckily it was a very sunny day so it dried off pretty quickly. Most of this was caught on a cell phone camera. Hahahaha Happy Birthday!
The second one was for a coworker that is the team leader for the project I'm working on. She's a good friend, but we decided against water balloons for her cuz she was nice.  But... what we did do was fill her entire cube with balloons. We used the HUGE, strong balloons that can get to be about 16" across. We couldn't use helium because we wanted it to fill her cube and then all tumble out when she opened her cube door. It took soooooooo long to blow up all those balloons. I swear there were probably over 100 in her cube. I was getting so light headed, that I had to go out and buy a little hand pump. Although, the hand pump sucked so much. I expend more energy using that then just blowing it. So I alternated, used the pump to get the balloon started.. and then blew in the remaining air after it was "medium" sized. It took about 2 hours with the help of my "partner" in crime. So when the birthday girl came in the next day... she walks right into my cube, smacks me on the arm and says "I Can't get in!!" (*sigh*... for some reason they always assume that I'm the culprit of all these "evil" ideas. I mean where do they come up with these things? ;) We didnt realize it at the time, but it was a lot of balloons. She cleared out her cube by throwing the balloons out of cube and into the aisle. All the balloons filled up the aisle to about waist height!! Hahahaha, it was a very colorful and fun site. =) Many coworkers came by and say they wanted to take some of the huge balloons for their kids. Hahahahahhaha. Then mid-day... people were just bouncing the balloons into people's cubes and at each other (mostly me... why??? I don't get it. ) It was good times..... Happy Birthday!!!
The last one was for our director. It wasn't as crazy cuz.. you know we didn't want to get fired. Hahahha He's a cool guy though. We ended up covering his whole cube with green sheets and decorating the sheets as if it was a golf course. We cut papers to represent the holes, water hazards, and sand traps. Then we made little flags and put them in the holes. It was very nice and he liked it. Although it was quite difficult for him to get into his cube considering that we had sealed it off. Hahahahha Happy Birthday!!!
So that's it. Fun times.
Note to self... have a loaded Super Soaker ready when my birthday rolls around. We'll see who gets the last laugh. Mwahahahahahahaha
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| | Posted 2/24/2007 2:16 PM - 42 Views - 4 eProps - 1 Comment
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