Wholesome (maybe not so much ;) ) fun!!

I have been postponing writing this blog for a long time. It is about a release party we had half-a-year ago and how it all ended.

At the release party, the admin's idea was to play water balloon. So she got a bunch, and also a pump to match. The party was on an open space in the campus and was meant to be strictly (ahem!) outdoorsy.

Thus happened that everyone ate so much (what do you expect when you have samosas and spinach puffs!?) and fell to just talking, no one was motivated enough to play anything. Some went off to play Volleyball, some to play Frisbee. I played Frisbee, but the thought of those water balloons going waste was killing me. Sigh!

So even though the pump idea didn't work, I actually walked into the cafeteria ahead and filled some balloons with water from the faucet in the coffee shop's kitchen. (Needless to say, I made a mess, and since it was their closing time, I also cleaned it up). Then I came out and picked a colleague who was least likely to thrash me and hit him hard with the balloon. And the game caught on with soon everyone filling tens of balloons and eventually whatever they found, tubs, bottles, mugs etc. Not going into gory details like senior managers hitting their managers, (essentially the director of engineering;) ) I will only say that the outdoor fun ended with one of the senior managers being chased around the fountain and drenched head to toe with a whole tub of (dirty) water, from the fountain;)

Now in all this melee, my own manager escaped. He is a quick runner and we just couldn't catch him. We followed him around all the bushes but he kept getting away, after a while we saw him comfortably perched on the third floor of the building to the right of this pandemonium. We gave up on him, hopeless!

We walked back to our building through the cafeteria with another manager ahead of us. But what is this? He was dry? No, no no no no, not to be borne! So we talked and walked with him till we crossed the cafeteria and came out on the link to our building. Then hit him with one of the balloons we were saving up to go back and target my quick boss. Sorry! Can't see you like this;)

Then we went up, saw our boss locked cozy in his office, tried a lot to get him out, but no, he wouldn't. We proooooooooooomised that we didn't have any water, we had an important issue to talk about BLA. BLA. BLA. No use!

Then he said something. What did we hear? "I already had water poured on me!! Cold water!! Please, no more water!!" And how is that possible??

Turns out that one of my colleagues who had a meeting with him, went in for the meeting, and the dialogue ensued thus: (Disclaimer: I have stayed as true as possible to this narration)

Manager: Hi
Colleague: Hi
Manager: So how is everything?
Colleague: Do you want to save anything on your desk?
Manager: (Now perplexed) No?!?! Why?
Colleague:(Opens a cold bottle of water he got fresh from the refrigerator and pours it on top of manager's head)
Manager:Oh my God!!!!

All of us: Ha ha ha ha ha (after listening to this narration from him;) )

Actually now it reminds me, this happened almost a year back, not even half a year, maybe 10 months! Boy! That was hilarious. We were narrating this to another colleague who was in Germany at the time (watching Italy beat everyone in soccer) and he was so upset that he missed it. What soccer game can provide such entertainment?

None indeed!