The Package

Setting: Interior office, a woman, Ms. Teach, sits at a computer behind a desk, the room is filled with papers and boxes, but is orderly. A man, Philips, comes through the door and walks quickly up to the desk.

Teach: They don't knock where you're from Philips?

Philips: Sorry mam, but its urgent.

T: Urgency's not a substitute for manners.

P: Yes mam.

T: So.

P: So......

T: Urgent?

P: Yest mam, of course. Well you know the package we were holding for the WesTech account?

T: I do.

P: Well, its sort of gone.

T: I should hope so, they asked for it yesterday.

P: No not gone, its gone gone, like missing gone.

T: Missing like you lost it?

P: Well I wouldn't say that.

T: Because you didn't?

P: Because I don't want it to be my fault.

T: And is it?

P: I can't say.

T: Because its you fault?

P: Because I don't know. You see yesterday I gave it to Dave to give to Glen to give to Gloria to send to WesTech. but Dave says I told him to give it to Gloria directly only they never work at the same time so Dave left it on Gloria's desk with a note. When she came in she says she found the note on her desk, but the package wasn't there.

T: So someone took it off her desk.

P: So I assume, but the problem is that Gloria came in yesterday with a concussion which means she could have sent it and simply forgotten.

T: Why did she come in if she had a concussion?

P: Well she already used up all her sick days and the concussion was pretty mild so she figured she'd be ok.

T: Guess she wasn't. So what did the mailroom say when you asked them about the package?

P: Uhhh.......

T: You didn't ask them did you?

P: Ehhh.... no.

T: Well then?

P: Right, going now.

T: Oh and Philips, when you come back what are you going to do?

P: Know where the package is?

T: And....

P: Knock.

T: 'At a boy.

(Knocking on the door)

T: Come in

(Philips enters)

T: See, knocking's not that hard; now what did you find out.

P: Ok, so I went down to the mail room and spoke to Pat. Now she confirmed that Gloria had in fact used up all her sick days, but not because she was sick; it turns out she's been using her sick days to visit a guy over in springfield. And d'you wanna know how she got that concussion? Turns out you're not the only person who likes people to kno-

T: Philips! What did you learn about the package!

P: Oh, right. Well it seems that Gloria brought down three packages but didn't leave any address, so they were moved into holding.

T: And did you find it.

P: Sure did, I just sent it out to MysTech personally.

T: Philips.

P: Yes, mam?

T: Your an idiot.