the smiling, cheeky bastard that you see to your left is my partner in spice of life catering co., ben, who has certainly appeared elsewhere in this blog. last night before leaving work, i decided to cover ben's desk with silly string, because, well, i had silly string and ben has a desk. for those of you who've never had the pleasure of working in a kitchen, it's important to know that practical joking is to a cook's life what furry hand-cuffs are to the s&m crowd: fun, somewhat irritating, and ultimately, inescapable. the problem with kitchen pranking, though, is it tends to escalate pretty quickly with a mixture of amusing and horrifying results...ie. mussels or blue cheese hidden i
n people's cars, freezing guys' street clothes in fish water, etc. i came into the office this morning to find that, in retaliation for the silly string, ben had resorted to one of the cook's oldest weapons: large scale plastic wrapping. in my days, i've seen cars, work stations, and even people end up wrapped in the stuff. today it was apparently my desk's turn, as well as my chair which ben wrapped onto one of the posts in the office's hallway. i think the high point of the event, though, was that i had about twenty minutes in between meetings to catch up on e-mails and take care of a few other office duties. i can't say that this didn't slow things up a bit. now, one question remains: to retaliate or not to retaliate. in case my special friend reads this entry, i believe i'd rather keep my answer to myself for now. see how fun an office setting can be when you put non-office type people into the mix?
