When I arrived at work early Monday morning, our lead rep greeted me at the door and told me to follow him outside to show me something. He asked me if I had seen someone's name tag over the side of the porch. (I should have caught on at this point but didn't!) He kept saying someone must have lost it and kept asking me if I saw it. I looked over the side and of course saw nothing. After a few minutes of this, we decided neither of us saw anything (he said maybe someone found it). So we walk back in the office and I see black streamers in the back room, but I still had not caught on. I walked into the back room to put my lunch in the fridge, and all my coworkers were there! They had this cake with purple and black flowers, all lit up with 30 candles. After singing to me, they encouraged me (a little too enthusastically) to blow the candles out. I attempted. But they were those crazy sparkler candles that won't blow out! So after a minute or so, everyone joined in. By this time, they were getting really close to being completely melted. We tried pulling them out by hand while still on fire and dousing them in water, but there wasn't much left to grab. So wet fingers did the trick. I don't think anyone ended up with burnt fingers, fortunately! The candle wax did drip all over the cake, and in the picture, you can see a nice big black smear from burnt frosting or something. It was great fun! (Oh, and I forgot to mention the purple balloons. Someone obviously knew my favorite color!)
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