This last holiday season, our boss^3 got us all Beanie Babies. Which I thought was kinda fun.

It was also very entertaining. As they all came in one morning, they each came in to a different Beanie Baby on their chair. I enjoyed watching my coworkers either:

• Pick the things up as if they had never seen them before, turning them over as if they were a strange rock, or a curious puzzle, or...
• Impassively and mechanically remove the Beanie Babies off of their chair and place them on empty desk space before logging back in.

I did the only thing I could think appropriate: put my pink flamingo on the corner of my cubicle wall, facing the walkway, so it could watch everybody go by.

Over the course of the next 9 hours, I watched as the rest of the Beanie Babies slowly made their ways to the top of everyone else's cubicle walls. Now everybody in IT (or at least the programmer area) have little animals that the rest of the company tries to ignore every time they come to our cubes.

I should awkwardly stand next to it, grinning and pointing, and just say, "Flamingo."