i'm starting to believe that aliens are abducting my co-workers. Every so often, i find their remains.
i'm not talking about finding ex-colleagues who were quite definitely NOT in a boating accident sprinkled around the vending machines, but instead i find thinks like ceramic mugs, plates, bowls and other things. Oh, sure, i'm betting you probably do as well. Being a reasonably nice, and somewhat anal-retentive type, if i spot a bowl filled with water and the remains of breakfast, i've no problem washing it out and leaving it next to the sink for the owner to claim. (i've been caught by emergencies in the past and such acts of kindness are often quite welcome.)
It's just that those aren't the only things i've found left behind.
i've also found notepads, music players, cellphones, eyeglasses and car keys all left unattended. For days. i've sent out notes, i've seen others send out reminders for folks to claim these lost goods, yet, as days continue to go by these orphaned remnants continue their journey, surely to sooner be reclaimed by the solar expansion rather than the person who most recently claimed them.
Some items i can see losing track of for a bit or offhandedly discarding, (like those notepads, and other partially used office supplies), but others like glasses and car keys, are a bit harder to understand. It makes me wonder if there's someone blindly stumbling home trying to understand why returning home is so much harder than the trip in this morning.
Part of me wonders if these derelict remnants of someone's rather large quantum flux are possible evidence of a white hole (most likely behind the boxes of Cheerios in the cupboard) that occasionally emits these sorts of things as they're swept from some alternate existence's abnormally large collection of paperclips event horizon.
That or they discovered the consequence of listening to a Debbie Harry song regarding Fab Five Freddy and a man from Mars, which could be a rather religious experience in and of itself.
i just wish they had remembered to pick up their crap first.
