Another part, as promised...now I'm off to work!


A day less ordinary (pt. 2)

On this very day it happened that Gordon stumbled upon that 0,01% which the really top secret documents came down to, took off from his routine just a little – and changed a whole lot. It was somewhere between nine and ten in the morning, or to be more precise; very much closer to the coffee and donut at ten than it was to nine o'clock. So very much closer that Gordon hardly rose his eyebrow as he got to the document with a very discrediting signature from a very prominent person (who, as oppose to most people whose signatures circulated on old documents at Gordon's work, still was a prominent person), hastily read through it, let out a "Hmm..." of interest and then rose from his desk to have a cup of coffee and donut, only to realize that he still held the paper in his hand as he begun his walk towards the cafeteria. He stopped, turned around and saw that he had only four and a half meters to his desk, but gee, he was in desperate need of that coffee and donut. He stood there for a moment, lost in time and space. Then he saw his colleague Carl farther down the cubicles, (apparently he hadn't gotten up from his desk yet), quickly and without really noticing folded a paper plan out of the document and gently threw it at Carl as he shouted, but just loud enough for Carl to hear it, not for him to be alarmed; "Hey, Carl!" with the slight idea that Carl, who sat much closer to the shredder, could shred the document for him, only to see the paper plane take a sharp left turn, Carl looking up, asking "Huh?" and then (oh, Lord!) we zoom in at the document-turned-paper plane gently taking its way out of the open window. (Tada!) It was ages ago that Gordon had stopped wondering about the presence of windows at his workplace, but this was the first day that he cursed it.



Short story by Soulfire
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Written on 2010-05-13 at 14:34

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