Hairy Lollipops

Today, we had a crazy, silly day at work! Everyone was participating in all sorts of silliness. One of the things we did today was assign "camp" names to everyone at work - a nickname that consists of an adjective along with an animal name. The animal name is chosen by the person to whom the nickname is given. They look at a list of personality attributes and pick the one that is most like them. That list of attributes corresponds to an animal name. For the protection of the participants in today's silliness, I will refer to them by their "camp" names... :o)

"Young Otter" (referred to as YO in this story) left the office to run an errand. While she was gone, "Sassy Salmon" (SS in this story) found her partially licked Tootsie Pop laying neatly on a piece of paper on YO's desk. SS thought this was strange. Another unnamed co-worker commented that he was surprised that it wasn't hairy, since it was laying out in the open like that. So... SS got the crazy idea of putting hairs on the lollipop. She grabbed my scissors - cut off a chunk of hair (not a small piece, but a chunk!) and started putting it on the lollipop. I recommended that to make it stick better, she should dip it into water. So... the lollipop became very hairy. I predicted that when YO got back to the office and saw her hairy lollipop, she would scream.

When YO arrived back at the office, SS and I just happened to be in the hallway outside of her office. We waited to hear her reaction... This is what we heard:

"How did my Tootsie Pop get HAIRY?!?!?"

I have not laughed that hard in a long time (well, at least since yesterday)... YO looked very upset, but then she realized that we had a whole new bag of Tootsie Pops in the office, with Halloween right around the corner, so she quickly got over the hairy-ness and laughed right along with us!

[The moral of the story is: If you are going to make a lollipop hairy, be sure that you don't cut too big of a chunk out of your hair!]