While giving myself a self-guided tour of the MBBS administrative mansion the other day I noticed this bright cautionary warning barring my tour from including the office of the president.This roving reporter has yet to ascertain the events within the humble confines of the office of the president that necessitated such dire warning to all who would enter.
Perhaps one of you, the loyal readers of SEMBITS, has the story.
Please share it with us all.
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Well, of course, this is all rumor, conjecture and hearsay, but...
I heard that Jim crashed his hot air balloon into the Administration Building. See, he was practicing for the 2007 Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, and the unstable updrafts swirling around the Admin Building threw him into a tailspin (a rare thing in a craft that has no front or rear). Jim fought valiantly to regain control of the craft, losing his aviator's goggles over the side, and getting his flying scarf badly tangled. I believe he also spilled his iced tea. As Jim was careening wildly some sixty feet above the ground, he got too close to that tall tree that serves as home to the campus falcon (or condor, or eagle, whatever it is...I'm no bird expert). The undefined bird of prey, sensing a danger to nest and chicks, immediately began attacking Jim's balloon, severely perforating the nylon bag (right above the MBBS logo). Jim tried shooting the bird with his peanut butter gun, hoping that if he missed, he would at least hit the balloon, and plug the hole. He missed both, but I think he hit Mark Baker, who was just arriving for the day. Losing altitude (not to mention the fight against the condor), Jim could be seen praying frantically. Fortunately for Jim, he crashed into the balcony right outside his own office. He broke open a window, pulled the balloon inside, stuffed it into its usual storage space in the hidden compartment underneath his desk, and immediately threw up some caution tape. He got Karl to replace the window (on the DL, of course), and if it wasn't for that lone picture of the caution tape (and the anonymous testimony of a frequent telescope-using birdwatcher), no one would have been the wiser.
That's what I heard.
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