Jackpot!

I have to say that today did not start out to be a good day. I get to work and heat up my breakfast strudel, you know the kind that you spread icing on the top? Riiiiight, I thought it would be a good idea to heat my icing for about 10 seconds, well at 8 seconds the icing decided it was better to splatter than to be spread and it exploded all over the inside of the microwave. Things got better though, I was notified around 10:30 that I had won the drawing for an Ipod because I referred someone to apply for a job with our company. Cut to this afternoon, I may have mentioned this before but I'm really good at ping pong and it just so happens our company has a ping pong table, I was playing a game with Aaron, a co-worker, we have specials rules for our games, it's done in order to give Aaron an even edge in beating me. We refer to it as the "play at the servers pace" rule. This simply means that when I serve, I serve to the same place every time, unless I'm desperate for a point then we throw this rule out. Aaron has the right to serve anywhere on the table that he wants and anytime he wants. Meaning, if I leave the table to get a stray ball, Aaron can serve and if I can't return the volley, he wins the point. This usually results in high scores and keeps games tight. Today was no exception, I was actually down 19 - 18 when I left the table to retrieve a ball. Aaron had another ball I didn't know about but I turned around just in time to see him starting his serve. In my rush to get back to the table, I became entangled in a lunch room chair, then that chair decided to bring it's friend, so I am running like mad to get back to the table to return the serve with two chairs attached to me, the worst part was that I tripped just about the time I got to the table, to steady myself, I decided to fall on the table, at that point the table crashed to the floor in what appeared to be a broken heap. Once the laughing stopped and we convince HR that no one was in injured in the fall of a 20 year old ping pong table, the game resumed. Just in case you're wondering, I came back and won. THEN, HR had a contest in which they quiz you over the handbook,if you respond with the correct answers at the correct time, you win a ten cent prize, since the beginning of the year, I have won a couple of these and racked up my third one today! What's the point of this story? just because your icing asplodes in the microwave doesn't mean the strudel won't still be good.