Social experiment: Hands in the candy jar
This story has a bit of history: early in the summer, things were quiet throughout the office, so my co-workers and I decided to get creative. Our employer discontinued the weekly staff break that we looked forward to on Fridays, so we started gathering in one of the larger offices and organizing activities. We started by drawing targets on the whiteboard and competing for accuracy with a Nerf gun (I’m a really good shot, by the way).
On one such occasion we decided, collectively, that we needed a snack, so I travelled down the hall to see if one of our fellow team members would offer the bounty of his candy jar. Since he wasn’t around, I “borrowed” it, later returning the jar sans Snickers, Kit-Kats and Mr. Goodbars; we left him the Crunch bars.
My coworker wasn’t as sympathetic to our cause as I would have hoped, and immediately demanded that I replenish his supplies. I did…it just took me four months. Alas, my debt has been repaid.
Anyway, last week I walked into his office, expecting to see the assortment of Snickers Minis I had paid him, but instead I found the jar full of candied pineapple and papaya. I asked where the rest of the trail mix had gone, to which my coworker replied that he was conducting a social experiment.
As I opened the jar to sample the goods, he explained that he was curious to see if guests would 1) eat fruit that 2) isn’t individually wrapped, instead of candy. I responded with a simple request: that he find a mix with mango.
The fruit was eventually consumed, but it lasted much longer than its chocolate predecessors.
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