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The Ice Bucket Challenge

farmerart

This came up in a discussion topic a couple of days ago here on tuscl. I had to ask what exactly it was. Fast forward to this morning - my first day in the Calgary office for about 8 weeks. Virtually the first words said to me by my staff upon my return to work were about taking this ice bucket challenge. I was rigged out in a pin striped power suit and all the other ridiculous gear for lawyer meetings later in the day. A light bulb went on in my head.

I agreed to take the challenge on the plaza in front of our office building just before going to the aforementioned lawyer meetings so that I could show up at the offices of this stuffy law office all bedraggled from the ice bucket challenge. The deed was done and my staff came up with $5K in pledges for ALS before sending me off to the meeting.

The lawyers' receptionist was aghast at my appearance but she laughed when I told her that I had just done the ice bucket challenge. She was giggling like hell when she sent me through for the appointed meeting. The tight ass lawyers were even more aghast but I insisted that I be deposed for the matter under question. My lawyer had preceded me to the meeting and was chortling at this insistence - he had no inkling of what I had planned. Fun times at a dreary deposition!

When all the intrusive questions had been parried I challenged the three guys grilling me to take the ice bucket challenge with my promise that I would donate $10K to ALS for each one of them who agreed.

Not one of the three tight ass bastards accepted my ice bucket challenge.