Dispenser

The campaign headquarters had received threats from an unknown party.

This, in itself, wasn’t something to worry about. Politics being what it is, staff were quite used to this sort of thing, either from the other side of politics or some random nutter trying to muddy the waters. These nasty emails had increased of late, owing to the election now being only a few days away. This particular warning however, had said that explosive devices would be used to make sure that the sender’s message would be taken seriously. This being the case, when the first staff member, the Security Manager, arrived and opened the campaign offices, after making himself a coffee, he always enjoyed a coffee first thing, their new coffee dispenser made a particularly good cup of coffee, he had a quick look around as part of his normal routine.

Finding nothing out of place, and after making himself another coffee, he went to his desk, powered up his computer and opened his email account. Looking at new mail, he was disturbed to find an email that was a follow up to the original threat. It stated that half-a-dozen devices had been planted overnight along with a timing mechanism that would be triggered remotely when the offices were fully occupied, at 09:30am.

Seeing that the time was 09:15am, he made another coffee before doing a thorough search. The campaign’s operations occupied the entire ground floor of the five-storey building. All of the rooms were checked and he found six explosive devices, so, after making another coffee, he did a further sweep and found a timer that was set for 09:30am.

Seeing that the Finance Manager was in, he went to his room. He found him looking at his computer screen and said, “You’ve seen it, then?”

“Yes,” came the nervous reply.

Looking at the time, the Security Manager asked, “Who’s managing today?”

Looking at the roster, the other said, “That’ll be Stinky.”

“Oh! That’s not good. He’s a real panic-merchant!”

“Yes, I know. He is bound to panic,” said the Finance Manager, “but we have to tell him.”

“OK, but…” he paused, looking at the time again, he said, “we’ve only got four minutes; so, let’s make it snappy.”

“Why is that?”

“It’ll give us just enough time to make a quick coffee before the place blows up.”

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