Operation Picture Verification

As with any manufacturing facility, nothing stays a secret for long, especially information that could be deemed incredulous or unbelievable.

Word had spread that The New Guy had brought in a picture of his girlfriend and placed it on his desk. Immediately we all began to surmise....

Was it a real picture? Did he print something he pulled off the internet? Was she attractive? What in the hell did she see in The New Guy? Or, was this all an elaborate scheme?

It was imperative we were able to get down to the bottom of this!

As it so happens, GQ and The New Guy share a cubicle, and GQ was able to piece together from overheard conversations that The New Guy had planned to leave early, it was his birthday and he wanted to prepare for his marriage proposal.

Upon hearing this information, the wheels in my mind immediately began turning, the plan was formed.

Waiting for The New Guy to put on his coat and head for the door, Cruella immediately picked up the phone and whispered into it that The New Guy was headed out the door. Laughing to myself, I nodded over to Sophia and told he we were needed down in the bull pen.

Sophia and I entered the cubicle to find Cruella on The New Guy's phone, chatting, sitting in his chair, rifling through the papers on his desk. GQ sat at his desk, looking through the pictures he had taken the previous night partying with his 'friends', laughing as Sophia and I begin to visually scan The New Guys desk.

"Where's the picture?" I ask, laughing a little.

"Right here," Cruella hands me a black frame containing a very pretty oriental looking woman.

"This is her?" I ask, cynicism in my voice.

"Yes," GQ pops in. He has now scooted his chair over next to where Sophia, Cruella, and I had grouped.

"Well, she's pretty," Sophia had taken a long look at the girl in the frame.

"How do we know it's real?" I just couldn't, for the life of me, believe someone like her would go out with someone like The New Guy. "Let's take the picture out of the frame."

"I don't want any part of this," GQ immediately pulled back like a complete chicken.

Flipping the frame over, I slid the catch out from beneath the frame to allow the back to fall free. Carefully removing the inner contents of the frame, I discovered the picture was actually a card of some sort.

"Oh My God! It's a card in here, not just a picture. What should we do? Should we look?" I had held the card shut, waiting for a unanimous decision.

"Well, of course we should look!" GQ slid his chair back over and took the card from my hands, opening it and peering inside. "Hmmm....." Holding it out for the rest of us to see, it was completely void of any writing inside, just a piece of parchment paper with the words 'Happy Holidays' inside.

Unable to contain ourselves, the 4 of us began to laugh hysterically as Sophia burst out "This is like an Episode of 'The Office'."