“There’s this water cooler in the office that no one ever fills up,” Amy started telling me.
“So I came up with an idea for a contest. People mark on a sheet when they fill it up and at the end of the month, the winner gets a prize.”
“That’s a good idea. What kind of prize?” I asked.
“I don’t know. A pack of gum or something.”
“Who wants to do that for gum?”
“That’s not the point. So I find out that Seymour has been filling up the water cooler when there’s still a quarter of a tank left – just so he can fill it up before anyone else!”
“It’s almost empty, what’s the big deal?”
“It’s a big deal because he’s cheating on my contest and wasting water!”
“Whatever.”
“So the next time I heard him fill the cooler, I caught him. I told him SEYMOUR YOU ARE BANNED FROM MY CONTEST! Loud enough for the whole office to hear.”
(Everything Amy says is loud enough for the whole office to hear.)
“That must have been pretty loud. Normally I can hear you from down the hall anyways.”
“That’s what he gets.”
“So how’s the contest been going since?”
“No one is doing it but me now.”
