Strange Day at Work
This past Friday, we took a moment at work to honor our office manager's birthday. Everyone piled into our rather modestly sized conference room for the surprise. Another worker ran inference by calling her over to the nearby annexed office space we use for deliveries. The office manager was turning 59 and those in charge of the event (I was occupied with other work matters but designated two of my employees to handle all the arrangements) decided that instead of the all too common practice of placing a "5" candle and a "9" candle on the cake we would put 59 individual candles on the medium sized sheet birthday cake. When I entered the room to join in the surprise the candles were already lit and burning furiously. I don't recall ever seeing such a fire on top of a birthday cake before. You could actually feel the heat as you walked past the cake. As it often goes with such things, we were successful in getting the office manager out of the space so thi