Booze.
To find bottles of drink in my office isn't unusual. Actually, that doesn't really tell the whole truth: to find bottles of drink in my office is expected. I currently have a bottle of wine on my desk, another 6 beneath it and a couple of whiskey bottles next to my phone.

There are cupboards full of the stuff. Everywhere you look you see bottles of drink. There are off-licenses with less booze on their shelves than is in my office. So, to find bottles of drink knocking about isn't even remotely unusual; it is very, very usual indeed.

However, a couple of years ago, as we engaged in one of our very occasional office tidy-up days, I found myself rummaging about on top of a cupboard and chanced upon a very dusty and distinctly non-descript cardboard box.

I glanced inside and discovered a bottle of cognac secured within a rather fancy gift box. I recognised the bottle immediately and, as I remembered just how much it sold for, a smile began edging across my face.

That is, until a voice behind me asked what I'd found. I offered unconvincingly that it was nothing, but it was a naff effort and their persistence proved worthwhile when I proffered a glimpse at my bounty.

"Fucking hell!" they exclaimed. "Where did you find that?"

"Um..." I searched my brain for any hypnotist skills I may have inadvertently picked up but, alas, I found myself wanting.

"Up there." I gestured.

"That's worth about a grand a bottle." they correctly opined and I was in no position to disagree.

They were full of questions, but I didn't have any answers so I tuned out while deciding amongst myself that £1,000 of cognac wasn't worth clubbing someone to death over, particularly as it would have ruined the very ornate bottle it was contained within.
( Moey, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 16:23, 3 replies)

So
what actually happened to it in the end?
(sailorspoon started wiping his own arse from, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 19:55, closed)

Good question.
No one was bludgeoned to death with it, that much I'm certain of.

My boss got wind of it, so I couldn't find a new home for it. It probably found a home in someone else's drinks cabinet. Someone who isn't me.
( Moey, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 21:39, closed)

I hate that
what ever happened to "finders keepers"?
(dchurch bah, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 22:11, closed)