Office Pranks, Office Humor, and Office Stories - One Crazy Office

This is one of my prouder moments during my work career. Reason being is because I was always call skinny and weak. The people I worked with always laughed at that. Well at one point a few years ago I put a stop to that. It took me a year, but I gained 50 lbs of muscle and outweighed and stronger than all, but one guy. So I guess they thought that they would put me to the test one day.

Every now and then we would have people abandon their bikes on-site. But they would leave it chained up at the bike locks at the bike racks. Well we would take bolt cutters to them if the bike hadn't moved in a year. Well one day we came across a MasterLock bike lock with 1/4" steel. All the other guys were thinking of crap we are going to need a electric saw to be able to cut through this thing.

I spoke up and said "nah I can do it" Famous last words. So they handed me the bolt cutters. I had to open them up all the way just to be able to get around the lock. And I gave one mighty push. I didn't even make a dent that first time.

But in those little moments that I had to just test out the lock I apparently had gathered a crowd. I look behind me and through the windows of the building you had everyone watching. So the pressure started to climb. The guys were like "Oh man you have to do it now, you have a crowd staring at you thinking your weak."

So I moved my position to be able to put more of my weight on the lock. And gave another mighty push. And after about one minute of giving it everything I got the lock started to give. I saw this and kept on going refusing to give up. I moved my legs to get a little more leverage and this seemed to help.

I saw it starting to cut in the steel more and more with each passing second, but I was quickly running out of strength. BUT at the very last second I gave it everything I had left and the lock broke away. Not only that I ended up breaking the bolt cutters, which were new.

I looked back at the crowd that had gathered and I was getting some nice looks from some female employees. I still have the lock hanging in my office to remind me what I had trained for. The respect I earned for myself and what I had to put in to get to that point.