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On the Trail of the Missing Office

He shimmied down the drainpipe in his suit and tie and landed on the sidewalk. He looked around. There was a banana peel in the middle of the sidewalk. Was someone trying to stop him from following them? Had they left this peel here to make him slip and break his back? Why did they want to kill him so badly? He went to pick it up and noticed another one not too far away. When he got to that one, he saw another further down. He followed the trail of discarded banana peels. It led him down one street and up another. Moving across town, he soon came to a large shopping center. The trail of bananas stopped at the parking lot. Which of the stores had they gone to? The video rental place? The big coffee chain? That run-down hole-in-the-wall that claimed that everything they sold was only a dollar? Yeah right! If you divide up some of the merchandise into thirds than each third would be only a dollar. The problem was that you had to buy all three parts together. That couldn’t be it. It had to be Boxes ‘R’ Us.

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