Warning: This story may contain information or images that could be frightening.
In order to make posters, which we do frequently here, we use a product called spray mount which is basically aerosol glue. At any given time our designers might have 15 to 20 cans in his office.
One dark and stormy morning, we came in and all the cans were gone. Missing overnight. An email was sent to the team.
Designer: Did anyone take the spray mount? All of the cans are gone.
One by one, people replied: no.
Where did they go then, they couldn’t just get up and walk away? Did we have a thief on our hands? At that moment, I got up and opened the door to my office. Lightning lit the hallway and standing there I saw them, the CEOs two young boys, arms full with spray mount cans. They looked at me with a gleam in their eye and took off running. I ran into the designers office and threw open the door. “I have cracked the case! I know who the culprits are!” I relayed my story to the designer who nodded and smiled. Alas, this information was no help as these were the children of the CEO and they basically owned us. They were in control. We wondered aloud what they could possibly be doing, surmised that they were probably huffing and dropped the issue.
Three days later I was skipping down the hallway and singing to myself when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I slowed down and walked over to the dark corner in the back of the building and that’s when I saw it - them. There they were, rows and rows of stuffed animals all glued into oblivion and left to rot in their pet cemetery. The boys had not been huffing the glue after all; they had been using it to glue all of their stuffed animals that were now just a mess of tufts of fur and ears sticking out. I stifled and scream and backed away from the graveyard. I numbly went and told the designer. We agreed that some things just should not be messed with and the stuffed animals were too far gone, we couldn’t save them. We left them there and never said a word to anyone or went back to visit the site. I can only hope they did not suffer. And hey, at least the boys weren’t huffing.
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