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Friday, January 23 2009 - Blog

A long while ago, I posted about the fact that every office has a Kevin, and that ours was called Paul.  Well, Paul has moved on from my team now, but apparently he hasn’t moved on from his inate Kevin-ness.  Here is a transcript from an IM conversation I had with him the other day.

Paul says (16:11):I've just outdone any accident that I've ever done before (in an office).Paul says (16:12):New contract, been here 2 weeks.. I'm the Scrum admin this week. I open the scrum draw,and there is what looks a toy gun with soft balls in it.I pick it up and as i do so, I manage to actually, non-intentionally pull the trigger.Turns out, it's a high powered professional paint ball gun.Paul says (16:13):I shot the team secretary the other side of the office!!Paul says (16:15):So, I'm new here... and second week I nail the secretary in the back with a paintball.

Honestly, I have so many questions about why there was a loaded paintball gun in an office drawer, but that’s another blog post...

The best bit was when he finished up with this comment:

Paul says (16:16):Still, at least I haven't spilt anything yet...

Fantastic.  But not for the secretary.

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#1 Eric on Saturday, January 24 2009 at 11:35 PM

that is f'ing hilarious!

#2 Paul Groves on Monday, January 26 2009 at 2:25 PM

The standard joke now in the office now is ->Person a: They didn't do <something> <properly|ontime|> again.person b: Don't worry, we'll send Paul around to shoot them.

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