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Just when you think you've witnessed just about everything working life can throw at you some weirdo takes you by surprise. In the afternoons, after the canteen staff have gone home, a selection of goodies is left out and an honesty box scheme is operated. This includes a refrigerated section containing some rather appetising cream cakes. It has recently come to light that somebody has been surreptitiously taking a bite out of the cream cakes and putting them back. It really is difficult to comprehend what must be going through this individual's mind. But then again I'm a software engineer and, over the years, I've witnessed some very strange behaviour on the part of some of my less, shall we say normal, colleagues. There was the gentleman who, upon taking his seat in the canteen, would put his dessert and his main meal on the same plate, mash it all up and eat it. This was regardless of content. A gravy-laden roast dinner would be carefully mingled with a sponge pudding and custard! I suppose it all ends up in the same place! Then there was the fellow who always seemed to have a bandage on his finger. It was so filthy it must have been on their for months. He'd obviously been picking at it because a number of dirty threads hung from it like some unhygienic jellyfish. Anyway, one day I glanced across at his desk to find him using one of the aforementioned disease-ridden threads as dental floss! My disgust was compounded by the fact that, not half an hour earlier, while I was relieving myself at the urinal, he emerged from one of the cubicles, walked straight past the sinks and dried his hands on the roller towel. I dried my hands using toilet paper from that day forth!!! And omitted him from my daily departmental kissing round.