accidents at workplace

I happened to observe some real accidents which generated a lot of fun to the observers and
a lot of mess and embarrassment to the victims of the incidents.
I greatly sympathize with them but the devil in me also wants to have a wicked grin..as I recall these.

Coffee mug

Some days ago, my enthusiastic colleague from across the desk was standing at his desk and talking to me with a coffee mug in his hand. He was talking about how to really smartly select candidates in the interviews and judge them fairly. This coffee mug was a made of some material with a plastic handle. We came to know that the handle was actually just stuck into the mug body.
I could bear with his points but guess the coffee mug was not able to bear it.
And suddenly the mug body gave up and fell down and my colleague was left with a handle in his hand. He immediately stopped talking and started looking at his desk with much exasperation.
I did not know whether to laugh or console him with the havoc that the filled coffee mug had played on his keyboard and papers on his desk.
But I could not remain so sober and suddenly burst into laugh and he also started laughing. He had borrowed this coffee mug from other colleague and she also started laughing.
But I suddenly felt like a responsible coworker and I started helping him with getting the tissue papers to wife off the mess. He was drinking hot water from this mug, which God only knows why he was drinking..but imagine what if it would have been a hot coffee or tea.
The keyboard , mouse and the books and papers on the table must have cried aloud for their burnt body parts.

VNET Phone

Similar incident of spilling over the liquid content(coffee) happened with my other colleague. Although I did not witness the spilling incident but I saw the aftermath. The coffee actually went inside the small cavities behind the phone buttons. And the buttons are now experiencing a slow death. Many times my colleague has to press the buttons so hard to dial and with that frustration once, he pressed it so hard that the button remained pressed and did not come back to its normal position. He tried stunts on the button further and the button fell inside the phone device and all he could see was the square cavity without button. What will he press now?
He is become wiser now, and he never touches the VNET but uses VNETs from other desks.
His VNET has become a antique piece to watch.

Water Bottle

Once I was coming back from lunch and as I was moving towards my desk, I was crossing the other people desks on the ‘high-way’. We call it highway because that’s the middle portion connecting the front door of the floor and back door of the floor to the pantry.
So, on this highway, there are desks of some people and I can see their plight because they can never open and see any ‘special’ things on their screen because everyone crossing the highway can watch them.
People who go to fill water, go to washrooms, go to canteen , go to have coffee..or come in and out of floor …all cross them.
So while I was crossing one such desk, the guy sitting there suddenly did something , I don’t know whether he was sleeping or got some shock or something, he just smacked his hand and hit the filled water bottle which did not have the cap and as I saw it, I quickly turned the other way just to save myself from getting drenched. But still some water got spilled on me.
He said sorry with embarrassment.
Of course he was not from my project , so I rule out the possibility that he wanted to take some project specific ‘revenge’ on me.

Fire Extinguisher

Yesterday itself, there was much noise and crowd of people coming downstairs from second floor while we were going to lunch. So later came to know that one of the fire-extinguisher had busted out and caused the fumes and that floor’s fire sprinklers system got turned on .
People came off the floor it seems. We did not go and watch on this floor but it became kind of “happening” floor yesterday.

This is called some fun at office expense.!!