It was a cold and dark December day. A Friday, to be precise.
Marni and Emily were the only ones in the office. Jorge was off galavanting in Nicaragua, Diego went home because he was "violently ill," Tomás was celebrating an early Christmas with his family, and Cristobal and Juan had mysteriously disappeared in a cab to go to a 4+ hour lunch.
Business was slow, because, as it is said, "business shuts down from Nov-Feb." Marni and Emily had already taken care of all work-related tasks, decorated the office with Christmas decorations, and made a dance video to Christmas music.
All the fluorescent lights were off in the office, in order to make Christmas lights shine brightly.
Emily and Marni were sitting in Emily's office shooting the breeze (actually, updating the bloog), when all of the sudden - the phone rang. Emily answered it. It was a potential customer with some questions. They had a routine conversation.... And then, all of the sudden - they heard a SNEEZE come from just outside Emily's office door!
Emily and Marni looked at each other, eyes wide, and silently screamed. Emily had to keep talking to the person on the phone, and Marni reached for the scissors on Emily's desk.
She poked her head out of the office, and started to look around.
WHO WAS THERE???
The sneeze sounded as though it had come from one of the back offices.
"Surely we would have heard if someone had come back, though, right??" Marni thought to herself.
Emily hung up, and whispered to Marni, "WHO WAS THAT??" She ran to the front of the office and turned on the lights, and the two tiptoed around the office, in search of the intruder.
They were soon too spooked to look around anymore, so they ran out of the office to get help from the lawyers across the hall.
On the way out, a man from across the hall came walking by from the bathroom.
Emily: Did you just sneeze?
Man: Uh, yeah, just a minute ago...?
Marni: Out here in the hall?
Man: Yeah, right about here...
Emily: OH...IT WAS JUST YOU!
The man looked down at Marni's scissors, still in her hand.
Marni: Oh...uh...protection...
Emily: We're the only ones in the office...
Man: (clearly a little weirded out) You should lock yourselves in then.
Marni and Emily: (a tad bit embarrassed) Oh yeah, good idea.
The end.
