At work, we have a terrible time keeping the support desk area clean or neat in any way, shape, or form. Part of the reason for this is that we have a continuous stream of things being given to us. Today, our participants were especially generous, as for some reason, there were gifts rolling in all day. I thought the pile of gifts we had sitting around this morning was an especially nice collection worthy of sharing with the outside world.
We had two weapon-like objects turned over to us: some pruning shears and a hammer. (Both of those are less dangerous than the machete that somebody gave us last week after he confiscated it from a friend who had been drinking and waving it around in the alley.) The pruning shears were handed to me by a guy who came in looking a little bit like Liberace the other day (complete with a paper napkin ascot and a sparkly vest with flowers in his lapel).
There was also a nice bouquet of flowers given to Mary by a man trying to make nice
which came from poor soul's flower bed. A man gave Amanda a rose, and there was the stuffed animal of the reindeer-dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas that Maggie got as a gift on Monday. One of our guys who is into leather work made a couple of woven leather keychains for us too. These things are in addition to the several pieces of hard candy that we usually get in a week.
which came from poor soul's flower bed. A man gave Amanda a rose, and there was the stuffed animal of the reindeer-dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas that Maggie got as a gift on Monday. One of our guys who is into leather work made a couple of woven leather keychains for us too. These things are in addition to the several pieces of hard candy that we usually get in a week.I work in a strange place.
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Your gifts are very similar to those given to elementary school teachers every day. We get an assortment of dandelions, white clover flowers and weeds that grow on the playground. We also get the weapons taken away from fellow classmates who are waving them around...a nail, a shoelace, a toothpick, a really sharp pair of scissors. At various times the other gifts arrive, too...the mugs, stuffed animals, the "teacher" gifts. And random items of food...either from lunch boxes or food trays. So, you don't work in any stranger place than most elementary school professionals. Giving gifts is a joy for the giver...Enjoy!
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