We Have a Missionary?

[661-Pete]

I'm perplexed. Our works canteen is unstaffed and doesn't serve meals: all it consists of is a room with sink, kettle, fridge, microwave, etc., and vending machines nearby, so you can prepare food for yourself. And tables to sit around and chill out (very useful!). A lot of the time it's deserted.

There's also a bookcase full of second-hand books: the idea is that staff can bring in any books from home that they no longer want, put them on the shelves, share them with colleagues, so to speak. Very good idea.

Recently, one of those Gideon bibles appeared on the shelves. No idea who brought it in. Odd thing is, whenever I go into the canteen, I always see it lying on a table. Never seen anyone read it. Just that it's always on the table. Whenever I see it, I quietly replace it on one of the shelves - and next time, there it is back on a table.

Don't want to upset anybody, but...?????

 

[benb]

Burn it.

 

[Maizie]

Somewhere, on another forum, someone is saying 'I keep putting it on the table, and when I go back it's on the shelf. So I put it back on the table. I have no idea who's moving it back, I hope it's driving them nuts'

 

[661-Pete]

Somewhere, on another forum, someone is saying 'I keep putting it on the table, and when I go back it's on the shelf. So I put it back on the table. I have no idea who's moving it back, I hope it's driving them nuts'

 

[ChrisKH]

Burn it.

Isn't that what the Nazis did?

I'm not sure what the issue is here, apart from someone consistently leaving the same book on the table. It's hardly a sin.

Does the fact it's a bible rather than a Patricia Cornwell novel make it a bigger issue? If someone kept leaving the Koran on a table at work I would be inclined to pick it up and have a read. Except my Arabic is pretty poor.

 

[benb]

Yeah, I wasn't being serious you know.

 

[TVC]

Perhaps someone is using it to stand their mug on, there's nothing worse than a tea ring on a table.(When I say there's nothing worse, of course, war is pretty bad as well).

 

[PaulB]

Rob it.

 

[661-Pete]

Rob it.

Is it legal to nick a Gideon bible? I mean, it's not as if they belong to anyone do they? - they're freely given away by these Gideon chaps. Must admit I've never felt the urge...

 

[Banjo]

Wait until the canteen is full then pretend to read it .I would bet your missionary would not be able to resist sidling up for a "chat" if you did that a few times. You could then tell him/her to put his book on the shelves provided like everyone else.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

there's nothing worse than a tea ring on a table.(When I say there's nothing worse, of course, war is pretty bad as well).

Mayonnaise comes a close second to war, well mayonnaise and Swindon.

 

[661-Pete]

Perhaps someone is using it to stand their mug on, there's nothing worse than a tea ring on a table.(When I say there's nothing worse, of course, war is pretty bad as well).

Oh I don't know. More wars have been down to bibles - of one sort or another - than anything else. Anyway: no tea/coffee ring on cover of said Bible. Perhaps it's on an inside page somewhere? So: I feel a Sherlock moment coming: what chapter would our Missionary be most likely to be reading as they sip their Nescaff/Tetley's?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

what chapter would our Missionary be most likely to be reading as they sip their Nescaff/Tetley's?

Depends which tea Hebrews on the day.

 

[benb]

I think you'll have a Job to find out

 

[ChrisKH]

Yeah, I wasn't being serious you know.

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