In the office last week we devised a prank to pull on Stu, who was away for the week on vacation. The scheme involved putting in as many balloons as we possibly could into Stu’s office. The goal was to fill the whole room, but we didn’t quite make it. Cory counted over the weekend and said there were over 400 balloons in there. On Thursday and Friday we used any downtime during the day to be spent blowing up balloons. With 5 of us blowing up balloons it wasn’t too bad. I purchased some of those large punching balloons and decided to be a little mean and hide Stu’s mouse inside. We also hid his headphones inside another balloon.



Cory and I both planned to get to work early to film the discovery of the balloons, only that kinda failed. I arrived by 7:25am only to discover after phoning Cory that he was still in bed. I don’t have a key to the office, so if Stu wasn’t there yet I would have had to explain why I was in so early and possibly ruined a bit of the surprise anyways. But as it turned out it wasn’t an issue, mainly because I was about 10 minutes too late. I walked in and discovered Stu on the ground collecting all the pieces from all the recently popped balloons.

It didn’t quite turn out the way we intended, but still was a pretty good prank. I had kinda hoped to get a reaction video to post of the whole event, but since Stu was such an eager beaver to get into work after his holidays it didn’t quite pan out. At least we got this picture of Johnny Depp with a balloon penis in his mouth. I’m going away on Friday to Cleveland, so I can only hope my office is somewhat intact by the time I show back up on Monday.

Update July 22: I felt the need to give a bit more backstory as to why we have 2 Johnny Depp posters in our offices. Back when everyone moved into the office last year(about a month before I started), Ryan, one of the guys who used to share our office space, wanted to get some fresh decorations for the new digs. He apparently went to Wal-Mart or Zellers and bought one of those tubed posters of what he thought was Johnny Cash. When he got back to the office and unfurled the poster it ended up being swashbuckling heartthrob Johnny Depp on the cover of Rolling Stone. From that point it got hung up anyways and became a running joke in the office. When we moved shop earlier this year Rae went out and purchased a couple more posters to adorn the walls, this time purposely buying another Johnny Depp poster, so now we have a pair of them.