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Friday, May 26, 2006

Work! Help! Save Raj!

I was greeted by rank this morning at work. The story goes like this: for over 6 months at work, there was this bathroom near the lobby that s.m.e.l.l.e.d. like someone took pooh and mixed it with road kill, let it ferment and then stuck it in the oven. however it smelled it was a very unprofessional odor. against the fire code, we lit candles to combat the smell. we became dangerously used to it in a disgusting way. but visitors never did."what is that smell?""where is that coming from?""Raj, what did you do?!"we tried Oust, Febreeze, Glade, everything.finally, our facilities department started searching for the source of the smell. was it the sink in the basement below the bathroom? maybe the "water trap" or whatever it is called that keeps gaseous substances from leaking up from underground had dried out.nope, it wasn't the sink.was it the drinking fountain in the hallway that hadn't worked for years? they disconnected the drain pipe and put up an "out of order" sign.nope, it wasn't the drinking fountain.this building is so old, they don't even have the original blue prints anymore. they couldn't locate old pipes without knocking down walls.so, they started knocking down walls.finally they found the culprit. it was a pipe that was quite clogged with unidentifiable brown stuff. but it stank.after that, we were fantastically smell-free and carried on our general office duties, blogging and craigslist browsing in bliss.until today.there are two bathrooms on the main floor, the one that stank, as I said before was near the lobby. the other one is right next to my office. It is Rank! will I have to breathe this unidentifiable flith for over 6 months before they find the problem? what if this causes lung cancer or boils? will they pay my medical bills? i can't work like this.

3 Comments:

At 10:52 AM, Blogger rebecca marie said...

what is happening? i knew this was familiar when i first read it... that's cause my friend posted it first.

what is happening?

 
At 2:08 PM, Blogger Raj Van Allen said...

That's strange. Because seriously that just happened to me at baskin and Robins (where I work) the other day.

 
At 8:03 PM, Blogger rebecca marie said...

that is amazing. seriously. how weird. maybe you live in some kind of alternate plain of exsistence. the fifth dimension. or dimention.

 

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