Stone company

Writing about my work Christmas party last year got me thinking about my time there. The best story to come out of it was this. You may wince...

Our office was a fairly cramped affair. It was the Summer and it was a hot day so we had a fan going at the back of the room trying to cool things off a bit. Because of the lack of space the fax machine was placed on top of a filing cabinet above and to the left of the desk my boss was sitting at. A fax arrived and just as the page had finished printing out the fan turned back towards the fax and blew the paper across the room. This coincided with my boss turning his head. His open eye and the leading edge of the paper met and he was left with a nasty paper cut right across his eyeball. It was bad enough to bleed. He wasn't sure if it was something he should see a doctor about so checked on the internet to see if there was any advice, but the only mention of paper cuts to the eyeball were people asking the question- which would be more painful, a paper cut to the bell end or a paper cut to the eyeball?

He did have to go to hospital and was given eye drops which he had to put in for months. It took about a year for his eyesight to return to normal. The moral of the story- don't put fax machines between yourself and fans.