The Great Chase

Big Companies like mine are always so cocky when it comes to being able to outshine others, and when we do something bad, the rest of the world just shakes it off as if it was a minor inconvenience. Not saying that that is a good thing but it's more of a luxury than anything. It’s always funny how people who follow or enjoy buying things from our company can just dismiss the things we do. Our boss has done many things that have made a fair amount of people take a second glance at our company, but for the most part, we’ve been doing fine. Times like April Fools are where my boss becomes the most evil of pranksters though, he even told us last year he would paint over a billboard with our branding on it just for fun and giggles. You want to guess how it ended? Pretty bad on his end, though as I said, people just shrugged it off and let him be. 

However much hate our boss got, he would still find another way to make people like him again regardless if that was his intention or not. Let me tell you a story of when my boss almost got canceled because of his pranks. Not many people liked him at all after this even though I’m sure he didn't mean any harm. He thought people would laugh and giggle as they always did but this time was different. Waking up at around 5am in the morning and heading off to his first location where he would leave his first prank. He left a bucket of gasoline on the door to the entrance of our company’s workplace. Whoever tried to open the door would have gone insane. He then went to what I assume was a children's playground and left a few plastic and real spiders chilling in the sand. His last and worst prank of all was set at the police station. He left fake dead animals all over the place and scurried away back to his car. As he waited for everyone to roll into work he had realized something, he had forgotten his camera at home. In a hurry to catch everyone's reactions on camera, he quickly sped back home only to get a speeding ticket. 

The officer asked him what he was speeding for and he responded with an, “I don't know man, you tell me!” and pushed the pedal down even harder. Now he was running from the cops, trying to get his camera and trying to record something. His heart was racing trying not to get caught by the cops even though he knew he would be caught soon after he was done recording. At that moment, he just wanted his camera and the recording to be done. He could deal with the cops if they ever got to him. So he went on and on and on speeding ever so slightly faster and faster and faster until he suddenly crashed into a tree. He didn’t think much as he pushed his brake in time. But then, much to his surprise, he started feeling a very very intense heat coming from his car. His car was on fire! Knowing this he had to get out and keep running non-stop, until he reached home. He was running all over the place trying to stay out of sight from the cops. His co-workers were worried for him since they hadn’t seen him all day and kept getting his voicemail. No one knew where he was, the cops didn’t even think that they were chasing the CEO of a big company. Running into his house, he had to get his camera and run out of there as quickly as possible. He found his old camera and rushed to get a snack before he left, but then he heard the most loud police siren he had ever heard. Hearing this, he dropped his slightly soggy waffle onto the floor and dashed out of the house into the backyard. He hopped the fence and ran inextricably fast, the fastest he had ever ran in his life. He started panting and it became harder and harder to catch his breath. He checked his pockets and felt his puffer, he hid behind a very very enormous tree to catch his breath. He took a puff from his inhaler, counted to three and then slipped on mud trying to run. His shoelaces were in fact, un-tied unfortunately. He quickly tied his shoes and eventually got the energy to outrun 2 cop cars and hide from the police. The day started out perfectly normal with everything planned the way he wanted to, however, as the day progressed strange occurrences started to happen as his lucky streak seemed to dissipate.

Making his way over to his friend Billy’s house, he asked for some help to run away from the cops and back into his company’s building. Disappointed, he agreed and they got into his car. Our boss was barely catching his breath when all of a sudden he heard the sirens once more. He asked Billy to speed things up and as he did the cops saw him in the passenger seat and started chasing after them. “Great” he said, “now they’re after both of us!” Running out of gas, they both panicked, were they even going to make it to the building in time? They couldn’t think about that right now, they knew they had to at least try. They kept pushing, trying to maneuver the car to out smart the cops. Doing all that they could, they saw the building up ahead. They were close! Seeing the building gave them hope that they could make it, so they kept going and going. Billy suddenly knew something was wrong. He tried to step on the brake but it was stuck! He tried to push the pedal with all his might but the darn thing just wouldn’t budge an inch. When he looked up, it was already too late, they crashed into the building! As they tried to open the door of the car to get out, Billy’s back hit the door that was holding up the gasoline bucket. He looked up and it came splashing down all over the front of the building setting everything on fire. As the police came everything was set ablaze.

Two weeks later, as firefighters were cleaning out the debris, they noticed a camera that was underneath all the rubble. They didn’t know whose it was but when they pressed play, all they saw was a chase from the police and a bunch of “faster they’re gonna catch us!” This my friend, is the story of my very mischievous boss. In the end, it was he who got pranked with his own pranks, and with that came even worse outcomes.