Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Statistics for Suntec City

A new colleague who used to work in another tower within Suntec City had the fortune(?) of working with someone who had The Sight. One day after an unfortunate incident, he asked her about the population of disembodied spirits floating around in his office.

Currently 3 or 4, was the short and calm response.

WHAT?!! SO MANY?

Hey, it used to be about 40, okay? I had to ask them to clear out.

I asked him about which tower, which floor. Unfortunately he answered the question. Fortunately, it's not this tower or this floor. Reportedly they congregate within the ladies' bathroom. Between holding it, and risking it, I think I might hold for a day or two until I have partially forgotten that he told me that.

7 comments:

  1. A friend of mine has an high-functioning autistic daughter.

    1) One day recently she found her crying...

    "What is wrong?"

    "People shouldn't have to die!" cried the daughter.

    "Who died, darling?"

    "Jimmy died!" she said.

    "No, honey, Jimmy was in an accident but he didn't die." (Jimmy was hit by a car, injured and in hospital, but not that seriously...)

    She was inconsolable. Huband came home later and said, "That boy Jimmy from her school who was in that accident the other day, died this afternoon of a blood clot..."

    2) They get into the lift to go to the car park on Level 2. Daughter presses 1 and 3 as well.

    "No honey, you shouldn;t press the buttons if you are no going there."

    "But the people who get in at 8 and 7 want to go there."

    People get in at 8, see that 3 is pressed and smile. People get in at 7 see that 1 is pressed and smile.

    ...

    I am merely the transparent conduit for this information - I neither affirm nor deny veracity...

    E@L

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  2. Ok. It's official. I'm completely freaked out.

    It's not so much that I'm hearing all this stuff for the first time (I'm not), but it's increasingly difficult to ignore. And dealing with it is almost unthinkable.

    The colleague who told me this actually had an incident himself, when 2 people separately asked him whether he had changed his shirt during the day. They had seen him at his desk over lunch reading a book and wearing a shirt of a different colour. It would have been less alarming except he was out of the office during lunch.

    If I was his boss, I would have scolded him for leaving the light on in his office during lunch hour.

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