All in a day's work...
Dallas and I were going to eat our lunch in the front display room at the office because we both had paperwork all over our desks and the spare desk was covered with product from a mini-consultation Dallas had done with a client earlier today. The front display room is pretty bare; only a table, one chair and a couple shelves. I grabbed another chair and the box of pizza we had ordered from the sketchy-yet-maker-of-surprisingly-good-food bar down the street. The phone rang just then and Dallas said she'd grab it. I set up our makeshift lunch area and waited for her to get off the phone. She walked into the room and was about to sit down and... Click. The door swung shut behind her. She jiggled the door. Locked. She tried the glass door that leads to the front entryway but we both knew that one is always locked. She turned to me and said "We're locked in here". No phones. Nobody else in the office. Stuck. With no air conditioning vents. A box of pizza. Half a cup of water between the 2 of us. Some napkins. And the quietness of being locked in a bare room that can't be more than 12x12. Now today had been the busiest day of our week. Phones had been ringing like crazy, emails were pouring in and we even had some walk-ins. Needless to say we were wanting a break. Guess we got what we wanted. If it hadn't been so ironic that this would happen to us on today of all days... I would have been mad. But I couldn't be mad. It was too freakin hilarious. So I laughed. We both did. Especially when we saw Aunt Norma's car pull up. We knew she wouldn't find it as funny as we did but that just made us laugh harder. She came and rescued us after quasi-jokingly calling us idiots. We were only in there about 15 min before she showed up... just long enough to eat our pizza and humorously plot how we were going to get out of our present situation.
I swear, the strangest things happen when we're together... couches on the interstate in South Dakota last summer, locking ourselves in the display room at the office today... who knows what the rest of the summer will hold...
