Behold the mystery of the table
I give you now photographic evidence of a mysterious and wonderful phenomenon. I hesitate to call it a miracle, but this strange and unexplained event is surely a sign that larger forces are definitely at work. And they’re screwing with our minds.
On Monday morning when I got to work, I noticed there was a random table just sitting in the walkway outside my office. Nothing else was around it – no people or other pieces of furniture. Nothing was on it. It was just a single lonely 6-foot plastic collapsible table:
It sat there all day Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. No one disturbed it. No one even really seemed to notice it. Students walked by without giving it a second glance.
Then when I arrived at work today (Thursday), the table had been inexplicably flipped over, but still left in the same location:
When I came back from lunch today, the table was still there in its bottoms-up position. And then, sometime between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., it disappeared as suddenly and as magically as it had arrived in the first place:
That’s it. That’s the whole story.
Who put the table there? Who flipped it? Why did it disappear? Where did it go? What was its purpose? What lessons can I learn from the table and apply to my own life? Can I squeeze a religion out of this and dodge paying my taxes? Once you saw where this was going, why did you continue to read until the bottom of the page?
The world may never know.
I have just been informed by one of my co-workers that he was responsible for moving the table back into the building and putting it back where it belonged. Which is kind of what I had figured all along.
Yet the mystery concerning the table’s appearance and transformation remain…
Working at universities, I’ve learned that its often best to just not ask. I have to admit I read the stuff on bulletin boards and the school newspaper on occasion, just to amuse myself.
Ha! I always have to wonder about stuff like that.
So you know how it disappeared…but why was it there in the first place?