The Bonfire of the Inanities

(My favorite films of the year - on this week's Jared's Inkwell! -JMG)

Story Sent in by Ralph:

They always tell you not to date people you know from work but Julia and I were a great match. We just clicked from the beginning. We worked in the same area on the same floor and often tossed things over each other's cube walls at each other and played little practical jokes on each other throughout the days. We went out a couple of times and made out and all seemed well.

One day I was tossing crumpled bits of paper over the cube wall at her when she suddenly let out a scream that made everyone come running. There was a fire on her desk! Someone grabbed an extinguisher and put it out. When she was asked what had happened, she pointed at me and said, "It was Ralph! He did it! He kept throwing paper onto my desk and it all caught fire!"

I countered, "I wasn't throwing paper soaked in kerosene. Paper doesn't just catch fire."

The bosses got involved and she blamed me the entire time and she screamed up and down about how it was my fault and all the paper I had thrown had set a fire and other nonsense. She was ultimately fired for setting a fire at her own desk, and good riddance. You can't just go blaming someone for something you did, yourself. But it all worked out. We ended up hiring another cutie in the following months.