Ralph, the squirrel

The funniest thing happened today at work. We had a little visitor. A squirrel got into the home office. The first time I heard about it he was sitting in the corner between two floor to ceiling windows, a couple of feet from my cubicle.

Apparently someone saw the squirrel come out of my boss’ office, who happened to have her lunch sitting at her desk unattended (well at least not by her).

Nevertheless I headed to my coworkers cubicle that was even further away to watch the festivities. Because I just knew this would be a show and boy a show it was.

So we call security to come and get the squirrel. Two big burley men corner the squirrel. One takes one side, the other takes the other side. Two vs. one. Squirrel gets away. No one can find the squirrel.

Someone finally remembered the donuts left in the conference room. And there he was enjoying desert. So the two men heads into the conference rooms, closes door to battle it out. We all waited facing the closed door for 10 minutes. For 600 seconds we heard thumps against the wall and stomps against the floor. After a while we started to wonder if the men were winning or the squirrels.

Thankfully the two men came out with squirrel in tow inside a trash can – alive. They covered him up with a lid so he wouldn’t get out. Then we watched as they let free the squirrel. He ran back toward the front doors of our home office, probably the same door he came in to the place initially.