Okay i have from time to time listed some of the experiences that I have had over the years but I just had a new one last month that I have been working over and over again in my mind as to how it happened and to come up with a reasonable explanation. But I haven't been able too.

Back at the end of november when I was elected to the Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce one of my business neighbors sent over a balloon to celebrate. It said congratulations to the Dork for the next 3 years.... a term of service as a director! Well i kept the balloon in my office.

It stayed in the office for two weeks before my inventory in November. No one played with it or moved it. It stayed in the same place. 

Well the day after inventory I open the store in the morning at 7:30 am and notice the balloon is in the backroom. i take note and wonder to myself why is that there. I forget about it for a few hours until my employee shows up for work.

I asked him if he moved my balloon? he says No I make him swear. And still he says No. I go over the day before.... I was closed for three quarters of the day with inventory and it was in my office the whole time. The two people who helped with my inventory didn't move it. I walked out with them to their car and said goodbye to them.

We only had a few customers that afternoon because most of our customers assumed we would be closed the whole day. Those who did come in never went into my office.

And one other thing is i saw it sitting in the corner of my office as I left after closing. Same place it had been the whole time I have had it.

Now whatever moved it moved it diagonally across my office and into the hallway where instead of heading into the wide open space of the sales room it went into the small hallway and into the backroom where it then made it's way over 5 gallon buckets of paint stacked for high and then settled down so the ribbon was nearly touching the floor BEHIND a row of 5 gallon buckets against a wall.

And as I mentioned it was over two weeks old and wasn't fully inflated so that it couldn't lift the piece of plastic that was tied to the bottom.

Now there are four keys to my building..... I have one, my employee has one and my direct supervisor and our division operations manager has one. Two of us live here in Fort Morgan and the other two live in Denver. And as I said it was in my office when I left that evening only to find it in my backroom in the morning.

So what do you think? 

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