The Setup

It all started when a baby spider plant strayed across the border onto my neighbors cubicle area.  Let’s call my neighbor “Grappa”, he likes his office stuff on his side, and other peoples in their side.  This is perfect and how life should be, but since I have always wanted a dispute over “range”; too much MeTV reruns of Bonanza & MASH.  I escalated it quickly  to Indoor Plants Jungle versus Desolate Metal Wasteland.

So I went to on Dollar Tree to buy two sets of Army Men, brown and green.  Once I catapulted his troops over the divider the lines were quickly setup.

•  Example of how the Grappa’s Army Men were delivered, Industrial Light & Magic didn’t do the FX.

Basically, each of us comes in, checks to see what the other has done.  It is often days before one of us actually does something.   Since Grappa is an Early Bird and I’m a Late Cog, each of us has plenty of time to setup.  Movements include knocking down troops with balls or TP roll, placing cups over men, entangling men, having plants attack, bringing in other toys to menace, placing post-it’s with sounds (POW!, bang, boom, etc) or other effects.  The rules are humor, surprise, delight, and low key; it is a work environment and no one wants a visit to HR.  Not that I dislike HR, I just prefer to see them socially at the coffee machine.

The best thing about this play is there are few rules, just creativity at large, and an excuse to go into the toy section.  Plus the house plants seem to enjoy the added attention. ◄

•  Purple Velvet Plant (Gynura sarmentosa) on the edge of the delimited zone