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You and three others are newly hired at the big firm. However, being freshly added on the low end of the pay scale, the company favors you each with a ply-and-particleboard desk.
You come in early the next morning, and pull out your Desk Upgrade Cover - a very heavy fabric cover with the appearance
of a fine hardwood. Cut to the measurements you took the day before, it quickly converts the desk into something much nicer looking.
A few minutes later, one of the other new coworkers arrives. "You got promoted *already*?" he asks.
Hiding a grin, you say, "Just a few changes this morning. Would you mind fetching me some coffee?"
--------Jerith, April 28 2003
(Also the author/instigator of "AWACS Pizza", "Viking Headphones", and "Sign Language Yodeling")
(Context, since I don't have a stable place to link...)
Jerith was a very likable young man with an amazing imagination. He loved helping others. He very much enjoyed coming here to the halfbakery, much to the detriment of his homework...
He described this idea to me as I was taking him to school one morning, three days past his sixteenth birthday.
Jerith took his own life that afternoon.
He's always in our thoughts.
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Mine too. His 'Sign Language Yodeling' left me in awe. |
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Another fabulous and well written idea. Very sad to lose him. |
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My condolences to you and your family. |
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That's horrible - my sincerest condolences. |
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God bless him and your family. My sincerest condolences. |
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Just found out, Charles. I am so sorry. |
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Looks like I'm going to bring all of the "Remebrence" items to the top of the list, but it can't be helped and maybe it's not such a bad idea anyway... |
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thinking of you just now - it can be a most poignant season. I know that your lovely son would wish you all, peace, happiness and contentment at this time. |
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† I never knew him. I am sad that I didn't. † |
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Lest we ever forget, his legacy here will live forever in the minds of some. |
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Be careful, that's all. Just try and be kind and carefully so. |
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I hope he reads this up there. I have come so close to doing what he did, but now I wish I was there to stop him. He needn't have done it. He will be in my thoughts for a very long time. † |
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