But why the construction helmet?
Around 8am, most mornings, I look out the window by my desk to see a strange sight. A guy, dressed usually in non-descript shorts and t-shirt, trudges by carrying a plastic girl doll (like the one you dress up in the same clothes as your daughter) about 2 feet in length by it’s foot. Here’s what I know:
- It is always one of two guys, who work at a nearby warehouse that sells framed art to doctor’s and other professional offices.
- The doll is, shall we say, abused. The hair is matted and looks like it might have been burned, and there are marks all over it from shoes and some sort of violence.
- The guy isn’t running, but isn’t moving slowly – like it’s something he has to do but wants to get it over with.
- The doll wears a similarly abused lace thong (no, I didn’t previously know thongs were made in doll size either).
- The doll is always carried by a foot, like a kid holding a safety blanket.
- The doll lives on a shelf in the warehouse the guys work at when not performing this lap.
- While the employees at the framed art warehouse regularly have pep talks in the parking lot, we never see an interaction prior to the trip around both of our buildings.
- The shipping manager and myself are the only ones to have seen this, as far as I know – since we get there earliest in the morning.
Last week, something changed. The bigger of the two guys strode by with the doll wearing no shoes on his stockinged feet, and a construction helmet.
So WHAT IS GOING ON?
OK, I’ve already admitted, along with the shipping manager, that we don’t actually want to know. We suspect it is a punishment doled out on the employee with the lowest sales – some kind of punishment/motivation for working harder for your commission. But seriously, why did the doll have to be abused to create this situation?
I suspect I will never know.
2 comments Sunday 16 Aug 2009 | m. | Other
I’d like to meet the guy that came up with that idea and punch him in the face really really hard……maybe twice for good measure.
I think it would be interesting to know. There is always at least two sides to any story and without information, we tend to make up our own and form faulty opinions. By the way, the doll may have been previously abused or the survivor of a fire, a found object. The helmet, of course, is to protect the head from bird poop and/or alien transmisions whilst on the walk.