Funny Doctor Story # 3

The Course Director came in the other day asking to be let into the store room where we keep all our office supplies. This room is locked for a reason that has been obsolete and passe for a long time. But the lock remains, and staff must come to the office to ask me to let them into the store room if they want so much as a ball-point pen.

"Do you have devious intentions?" I asked the Course Director.

He looked as if I could not have made a more serious accusation against his character if I'd contrived to.

"What?" he said.

"Are you going to steal anything?" I asked.

The offended look grew more intense.

"Just say you won't," I emplored him.

"I won't," he said, distrustfully.

I pointed immediately to a drawer in my supervisor's desk. We were alone in the office and I was extremely busy, and didn't feel like getting up to supervise him while he grabbed sticket notes. I decided it would hurt nothing to show him the secret location of the key, which, in my mind, was no secret at all, since everyone who ever needed white out had seen us to into that drawer and take the key out.

"Open that drawer," I said. After a brief game of something like "hot and cold" he located the drawer and opened it. I gave him a few more instructions that revealed the location of the key under a very nondiscript desk item. He took the key and used it to access his sticket notes, then brought it back to me.

"Don't tell anyone you know where the key is," I said as he placed it back in my palm.

"I won't," he assured me. "But why'd you tell me if I shouldn't know?"

"Because everyone knows already," I asserted. "We've kept it in that drawer since I've been here - all we've done recently is move it 3 inches to the left and put it under something. Anyone could find it if they moved stuff around."

"I never would have found it," he said with a superior tone in his voice. He exited promptly, looking at me like he really stuck me one.

I lowered my eyebrows. I was reminded of something my brother said to me once: "Gee sis, you could be a knock out if you just tried." Um, thanks?

So here again - how does one respond? Who's the fool? Me because I revealed the key? Or the Course Director because he never would have found it?