Weirdo

[caddyman]

There is a weirdo in this office somewhere and no-one knows who it is.

Sometime over the past couple of weeks or so, someone has been wandering around stealing personal and family photographs from desks and filing cabinets. Whether it is just this floor or a wider problem, I don’t know. Whoever it is even whipped my photo of Gillian Anderson, which has been pinned or blu-tacked to a succession of partitions or filing cabinets these past ten years. It’s annoying, but hardly a great loss. More worrying are the irreplaceable family photos other people have lost. There was a rumour that all the pictures taken were of women or young girls, but that has been squelched and our picture thief is taking any photograph available (except, it seems, my photocopy of Louise Brooks – not good enough quality, I imagine).

I doubt we’ll ever find out who has wandered off with them or why.

There are some strange people in the world.

Comments

[binidj.livejournal.com]

I envisage a Bladerunner style attempt to create a personal history by using other people's photographs to create a fictional family. Picture the scene:

Dekard: "So these are pictures of your family?"
Roy: "Yes"
Dekard: "Who's this?"
Roy: "That's my mother"
Dekard: "Your mother is Gillian Anderson? You're a replicant aren't you?"
Pris: "Busted!"

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Several items have gone walkies from the 6th Floor.

Apparently some bloke had his Paddington Bear nicked. I laughed like drains when we were told this by one of his female colleagues who in turn gave me a withering look. ( I cast no aspersions as to why a grown bloke had his teddy bear at work !!!)

And there have been other more personal items, like photos, disappearing recently.

As you say there’s obviously some ‘clepto’ freak walking the corridors of power……


(For the record, my childhood teddybear sits at home on a bookself)

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

great film reference there.

I think we can resolve this by me donning my brown trenchcoat and stalking the 'clepto replicant' with my trusty replica P.K.D blaster...

At last a use for an anorak-y use for an anorak !!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I have a little teddy bear at my desk too. I wouldn't be more than slightly bewildered if anyone half-inched it, but anyone coming within three feet of my Vintage Guitars Calendar will be thrashed soundly on the spot, even if the director walks past and fires me.

[romney.livejournal.com]

> There are some strange people in the world.

I resemble that remark, but am - in this instance - completely innocent of blame.

My own desk is a blizzard of paper with one 4-inch resin-cast model of the god "Ganesh" sitting on the top. Now, I'm not a Hindu (Hindon't?) but hats off to the little chap anyway. If stolen, it will grow to life-size (which is only 5-inches but he's very tough) and eat the bone-marrow out of whoever took him. This is not very Ganesh-like behavior according to the Puranas and is most likely to have been the result of an Ancient Indian curse - I dropped my suitcase on the foot of a professor of Sanskrit while passing through Mumbai airport, who hopped around a bit while chanting something serious.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's not just HR/FM enforcing the "no family reminders" policy - whether as a discouragement to "spend more time with my family" or "the (non party institution) of the family"?

[boredinsomniac.livejournal.com]

Now I don't feel excessively paranoid for only bringing pics to work for which I have copies or negs.

Perhaps it's all a prank, and you will all arrive at work one day to find other people's relatives adorning your desks?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

If it is, they've forgotten to mention it to security who are all over it like an iffectual rash.

[lapinenoireuk.livejournal.com]

I'ts not some stupid "clean desk" crap is it ??? (or maybe I'm just paranoid that way)

Anyhow if anyone takes my official photo of the Palace team of 1969 then they had better have a clear memory of the last time they had sex because it will be ... the last time they ever have sex.

Hope Ms Anderson (with friends) returns safely.

(Thumbs up!)