a heart with a twist of lemon

at my marketing job, i am paid for ideas. pretty sweet deal. my fellow marketing partner in crime (ryan) and i were sitting at our computers last thursday when a brilliant scheme dawned upon us. prank call the designers.

the marketing assistants and graphic designers are seperated by one of those carpeted cubicle walls and a handful of filing cabinets, so this plan would require a great deal of stealth. i sent myself on a reconnaissance mission to acquire the number from the digital readout on their phone. as soon as i returned we began hatching a brilliant story, believable yet still out there.

*ring*
(ryan and i hear through the carpeted wall a dispute over which designer is to answer the phone)
*ring*
toni: design and marketing this is toni.
ryan:ahhhh...yes. this is peter from the uh institute of technology. do you guys design things?
toni:yeah.
ryan:ok good. we are uhh having this event, and we were wondering if you could design goldy gopher in a robot suit...and umm put him on mars?
toni:ummm...can i put you on hold for a second?
ryan:sure.

(meanwhile ryan and i overhear toni replaying the entire conversation to the other designers, referring to some crazy nerd guy. they tell her to give peter our bosses number.)

toni:hey um, you are going to have to talk to our boss, would you like her number?
ryan:yeah that would be wonderful.

the conversation ends like normal phone calls end and then ryan and i wander over to the designer area like giddy little school boys. they are in the middle of conversing on how odd the phone call was. i interupt:

me:what did this crazy guy sound like?
toni:really nerdy!
me:you know, i bet ryan could do a great impression of a really nerdy guy.

their faces become very serious as it all comes together. at first they are upset as to how we had them fooled, but then we all laugh as to how out of the ordinary it was. and so this story ends like many great sit coms of the 90s. everyone laughs over some obscure lesson learned.