Sail On

Our cool manager, Mike, is moving to New York. The stupid kid decided to do something about it.

Last week the he forwarded an email conversation he’d had with the managers of the other group on the floor. This was the intro to the email:

From: the stupid kid
To: Tom, Lurch, Pony Boy, Hypermanager, Quiet Girl, Guy that I hate

Please read up from the bottom to follow the conversation. Thanks.

-the stupid kid-

Thanks for the tip, stupid kid, none of us has ever seen email before.

Rather than present the rest of the email as it was sent (bottom up) I will share it top down, for your convenience:

From: the stupid kid
To: Hilary, the other manager
Subject: Cake!

Hillary, I was just looking at that website. Doesn't the cake on this ship (click the third pic from the left on the bottom) look a lot like the company logo? http://www.partyfavorsbrookline.com/Default.aspx?tabid=49&cid=7&sid=0&ProductID=795&page=0

They can mimic designs that we bring to them. So I'm sure they could do a closer rendition of our logo.

They had a photo fo an NY city cake design in the store too. I thought it would be cool to see if they could make a good looking company ship combined with a vista of NY city. Perhaps the ship could be in the harbor.

Like the cake in this image, we could have some writing. Perhaps something like "Sail On Mike!" or something like that. Just a thought.

-the stupid kid-

From: Hilary
To: the stupid kid, the rest of her group
Subject: RE: Cake!


Would everyone pitch in $40 for this cake for Mike?
We're just trying to get a consensus of who would eat/pay this much - please keep in mind that we'll probably do a small gift as well.

Please let the stupid kid know.

Thank you!


Hilary

From: the stupid kid
To: Hilary, the rest of her group
Subject: RE: Cake!


If anyone has alternative suggestions or ideas, please feel free to air them. Our choices aren't limited to duplicates from the website ( http://www.partyfavorsbrookline.com/ ) designs. I think it serves as a good reference point though and may inspire you to have more ideas.

If there are any artists in the groups, we can ask the store to copy any drawings we supply. Price depends in part on how detailed you want to make it. Though if it goes a little over, I don't mind picking up the difference.

Wednesday would be the deadline to order, but if everyone agrees on a plan of action, I'd like to place the order after work on Tuesday just to be safe

-the stupid kid-

From: the stupid kid
To: everyone
Subject: FW: Cake!

Please read up from the bottom to follow the conversation. Thanks.

-the stupid kid-

From: The Quiet Girl
To: everyone
Subject: RE: Cake!

stupid kid,
I'd be happy to chip in some money, just let me know how much and when to get it to you. Also, as far as the cake design, you could bring the cake place a sample letterhead (I'm sure Hypermanager has one), which would have the company logo on it. Just a thought!

From: the stupid kid
To: Quiet Girl, everyone
Subject: RE: Cake!

Quiet Girl,
I know Lurch likes the idea of having Mike's photo on the cake. He can show it to you on his cell phone. I'd say that if everyone chips in $4.00 that should more than cover it. If everyone is okay with this, just give it to Hillary when a final decision is made.

If anyone else has any ideas, please share them with the rest of us by forwarding the response to the people I'm sending this to. DON'T SEND IT TO MIKE!

But keep in mind that this is supposed to be a SECRET, even though Mike is surely expecting something. So how about if from now on the code word for cake is "candy dish." That way if Mike overhears, he'll think we're discussing stuff to put in Not So Pretty Girl's Bowl.

-the stupid kid-


A few brief notes:
-I included the links so you can see exactly what he’s talking about
-the entire group laughed for the entire afternoon after receiving this email.
-the stupid kid misspelled Hilary’s name twice in these emails
-some names have been changed because these kids are really stupid
-“candy dish” will be substituted as a code phrase for anything and everything in the near future
-I fully expect “Sail on Mike!” to attain catch phrase status. (i.e. “boo-urns,” “so’s your face,” and “bam!”)