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hey, mg, you didn't come in this weekend, did you?

no... why? did you?

no, no. of course not. but i just got this email, 'thank you to all of you who made the winkyshock annual 4th--

please tell me it's spelled 'f-o-r-t-h?'

bingo-- 'of july fireworks party an "explosive"'--

in quotes?

of course -- 'success.' did we have a party?

hm. first i heard of it. jay, don't tell me you're sad you missed an office party?

nah. but doesn't it seem odd that we didn't hear about it? and that they even had a party?

lemme see the message? it almost sounds vaguely familiar. hmm. spectacular views... accounting department's unsurpassed barbecue skills... bizarre. closest thing to a view of fireworks here was the time that restaurant's kitchen caught fire in the next building. i think that was right before you started working here.

not sure how much you could see from our fourth through eighth floors. so what's with the email?

this must be talking about the party two years ago at the old building. they used to let people up on the roof for like fifteen minutes for the fireworks and the parades.

strange. wonder why we'd be getting this now?

probably the boss's admin got overenthusiastic with the time delay auto-send feature and set this up to send itself out every fifth of july. efficiency crops up where you least expect it sometimes.

hmm. that would explain why i keep getting those 'thanks for givng blood' notes--

i didn't know you gave blood!

i didn't.

bet it kind of makes you wish your account still wasn't working. we could make a fortune with that idiot-filter idea.