last Sunday my friends and I were lounging in our tiny apartment trying to escape the monotony of another lazy afternoon In the spirit of breaking the boredom my roommate Stan announced he could juggle We were skeptical but he insisted claiming he was once the juggle king at summer camp With nothing to lose but our attention we handed him the only available fruit a banana an apple and a squishy orange that looked like it had been through a lot Stan began with a confident toss But the banana slipped from his hand like a greased heel hitting the ceiling fan In a bizarre chain reaction the apple ricocheted off a lamp and the orange fell victim to gravity splattering onto the carpet Laughter erupted and Stan now ducking projectiles tried to salvage his dignity but the fruit had other plans By the end we were in stitches and Stan with a sheepish grin [Music]
so last Friday our office team decided to do a team building escape room everyone was pumped finally a chance to show off our Sherlock's skills outside of finding who keeps stealing lunches from the fridge we arrived at the venue but instead of heading straight to the game room we found ourselves inexplicably trapped in the lobby the receptionist who bore an uncanny resemblance to my aunt Edna handed us clipboards with forms that looked suspiciously like tax documents confused but committed we started filling them out thinking it was some clever riddle 30 minutes in we realized we'd been outsmarted by a locked door and a sign that read push rather than pull defeated but not deflated we finally got into the escape room with our heads held high later explaining the situation to HR we cleverly said "Well we were testing our team building skills on bureaucracy which it turns out is the ultimate escape