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A Good Joke Never Goes Unnoticed

Wire Editor Newman
3 min readMay 15, 2022

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Even better, if it is an 0ffice joke involving the Boss.

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At my previous job, to say we played pranks on each other is an understatement. For example. Me and my best friend knew the boss probably better than anyone. A new employee walks in, and how to say, he was hanging around the boss a lot, maybe too much. A lot more than we did anyway.

Looking back, the boss was just trying to pass along some information to the new employee. Then it happened, a Big Case broke. The boss would usually take one of us, but not today. The boss took the new employee.

The Big Case

When the Boss, was looking after the new employee that was perfectly normal. When we were the new employees, we too got the same treatment. However, something did not see quite right today, and not being asked to go on the “Big Case”, well…

· Were we jealous? Maybe we were a little bit.
· Did we think this new employee was after our jobs? Maybe so a little bit.
· Did we jump in our cars and go to the Big Case anyway? Of course, we did.

So, what did we do?

On my way home from work, I stopped and bought two cans of corn. I dumped the corn out into some plastic containers and rinsed and dried out the cans. Then…

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Wire Editor Newman
Wire Editor Newman

Written by Wire Editor Newman

Writer of, Humor, Poetry, Life, Love, Fiction, Automobiles and the Blues. / Writing in Medium.com / https://medium.com/refresh-the-soul

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