It’s the office equivalent of the lost-socks-in-the-dryer mystery: why do so many forks and spoons go missing?
Here in the Courier’s office on West 5th, it’s a case of unmatched knives. Pull open the kitchen drawer and you’ll find a plethora of knives. Lots and lots of knives.
Want to find a matching fork, or stir a teaspoon of sugar in your coffee? You have to either
a) eat your lunch at 11 in the morning to beat the lunchtime rush on the cutlery drawer
b) raid the dishwasher (but even that often comes up empty) or
c) lurk around coworkers' desks so you can swoop in and politely ask, "Are you done with that fork?"
It’s not that our office manager went out and bought a bunch of knives without the corresponding forks and spoons. All those knives were originally part of a matching set, just as all the single socks in the world used to be part of a pair.
It appears we’re not alone in being flummoxed.
Yesterday, News 1130 reported that it too was suffering from a spoon shortage. Asking around the newsroom, they seem to think that workers put the cutlery in their lunch bags — the article doesn’t say whether it’s an inadvertent mistake — and take it home.
All we can say is that in the name of media solidarity, we can gladly offer them some knives if they want them.
