The possessed water fountain

[serene]

So the other day I come in to work and there's blue tape over the water
fountain. Apparently, while a co-worker was working, she heard what
sounded like a waterfall in the lobby, and she came out and the fountain
was on. By itself. And the drain is sluggish, so the water was cascading
to the (carpeted) floor.

Um. Okay.



So we played with the buttons and eventually the water turned off.
Everything was fine for a while, and then we decided the room has a
poltergeist. The fountain was turning itself on. A light fixture fell and
missed hitting another co-worker in the head, like in an episode of Scooby
Doo. I called the facilities people and they sent over a really nice
technician.

The really nice technician fiddled with the fountain, declared it fixed,
and left.

Shortly thereafter, someone got a drink of water, and the fountain stayed on.

And wouldn't turn off.

I went to take a drink, and *the water receded so I couldn't reach it*.
Clearly, poltergeist action, right?

Anyway, the water wouldn't turn off no matter what we did, so the really
nice technician came, turned off the water supply to the fountain, and
said he'd be back the next day.

The next day (yesterday), he spent HOURS taking apart the fountain,
putting in new parts, and testing the thing. When he left, the thing was
working fine, albeit with a weird sputtering noise every time it turned
off -- he said it was just a valve sound and it would do fine until he
could replace the valve.

Half an hour later, a co-worker went to the bathroom that is on the other
side of the wall the water fountain is on.

He flushed the toilet, and the water fountain Turned. Itself. On. With a
really loud FARTING noise!

Oh, my god. We laughed so hard.

He did it again a half-dozen times to show people. The whole office was in
hysterics. I called the facilities people, and they are sending the really
nice technician back out.

(Of course, now we can't get the fountain to do its trick. It's possessed.)

Comments

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

There is an Alternate Universe where live the souls and the twisted senses of humor of machines and mechanical devices. They can see us and touch us, but we are not afforded the power of seeing or touching them.

My cable modem likes to mess with me until I get frustrated and call tech support. My most-used phrase while on the phone with tech support? "Shit, *now* it's working!"

There are some plumbing souls who are bored today :). I can hear faint giggling somewhere in another world...

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

See? I knew it!

[karenthecroccy.livejournal.com]

The Goonies are under your building :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[minimo.livejournal.com]

I am scared because the fountain going on when someone flushes makes me visualize-----never mind---
It's probably a pipes/pressure thingy.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I had to talk myself down from potty-germ-fear.