Dear Edgar,
Bit of a long story, but you're bored, so here we go.
The other day, I was at work. There were a lot of people absent, due to the flu. I guess that happens this time of year. My colleague Matthijs (I know, Dutch names suck) has just become a father and his wife phoned halfway through the day. She was quite upset about something. When I asked him what was up after he hung up the phone, he just sighed, angrily and grunted "bah, women." I concurred and our intern, a women herself, sitting in our office, sighed and shook her head. We laughed a bit and went on working.
So as I mentioned, there's a lot of people that stayed home that day due to the flu. There was a fair bit of snow outside and I had to go and get some food, because I was very hungry. Unfortunately, Tom, another colleague, dared me to go and play some pingpong (or table tennis, as you will) and I could definitely not refuse. I decided it was worth having a churning stomach. At the time I went to play that game, both Matthijs and the intern were not there.
Well, the flu had gotten to quite a lot of people, who were all at home, but I told you that already. When I got back from the game of ping pong (or table tennis, as you will) The intern was back, and Matthijs was still gone. I checked my outlook to see if he was at an appointment. We have this nifty setting where you can check your colleagues agendas. I'm sure it's pretty common but I just thought I'd note it, because, like I said, it's pretty sweet. Turns out he was already away to a client and I couldn't help but think to myself "oh bugger. Now it's going to be a silent day again." That's because he's the guy I laugh the most with normally.
Now, with all those people being sick (the flu, as I said before) it wasn't too busy at the office. Fortunately (for me) Matthijs was back like, within an hour or so! So at about 2 o'clock we started cracking jokes again and I tought him some more of the Rubik's cube. My record time is like 1 minute and 20 seconds, and a lot of people are really impressed when you solve it in front of their eyes, and he wanted to learn how to do it too. I was actually wondering whether you could solve it too. It's quite easy if you know how to do it.
The flu was in this story for fun, but I'm not lying because a lot of people were actually not there. Also, I kind of hid the question up in the previous paragraph so that you wouldn't read the question first while you were confronted with this big piece of text, and I'd have written it for nothing at all. Also, I didn't add a question mark to it because that would make it too easy to find as well.
Hope to have my answer soon.
- Dirk
