Post #230653 by Chip and Andy on Fri, May 5, 2006 1:14 PM

When I was a young pup working the late shift at the Defense Lab me and some of the other guys had weekly poker games in one of the unused labs. Well, being young and all, I got in a bit deep with this guy. He worked in one of the labs deep in the basement, the ones that people take the elevator down to but never come back up.... And even if they do, they come back somehow different. Creepy is the best way I can describe this guy. Anyway, he decided that it was time for me to pay up some of my losses. I told him that I was just a lab guy and I wouldn't be able to pay him what he wanted as fast as he wanted.

"We can work something out" he said in that creepy voice of his.

I was very nervous, not because of the tone of his voice, but because I feared he would want me to ride down the elevator with him. People don't come back from those kinds of trips.

He said that I could 'work' for him by taking pictures of the lab. It took a minute to realize that he didn't want pictures of me in the lab, but pictures of 'the' lab, pictures of the projects I was cleaning up after.

Well, while doing my best secret agent impersonation, I came across some notes on the lead scientist's desk that were circled with arrows pointing to them. I figured this was the answer to some important project and could be the piece I was looking for to get out of debt with 'him.'

Well, it was.... I am out of debt now. I also lost my job, I lost my security clearance and my best girl. But I still remember what that bit of paper said. It was a web link and it read simply http://www.tikicentral.com/drinks/drinkcontest.htm

And then! The wahine spilled Mai-Tai on me because she was laughing so hard it was coming out of her nose.... She found Tiki Central and then told me, and then we told two friends, and they told two........