Morose Mondays Part Deux

I hope that this sequel is better than the one I allude to in the title. Celebration and cheer takes hold of the population and infects the room as though it were a Manhattan influenza outbreak, why you ask?  Well in anticipation of a death most jovial of course, I know its disrespectful but the point of Morose Mondays is that the deaths featured here are either interesting of funny.  Who could forget last weeks Cannibalistic tale?  Well if you remember or not prepare to be wowed by this short, interesting, and hilarious story.  This weeks Morose Monday is dedicated to anybody in the sales industry and inspired by a conversation I had with a friend over the weekend who now works in said industry. When one must provide a product demonstration remember this brief tale when doing so - sometimes giving your all can result in you being turned into a collection of fresh pavement meat.

The year 1993, and 38 year old Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy from Toronto is giving some visitors a tour of the firms offices.  Now Gary happens to work in an impressive high story office tower, it was a particularly hot day and the attention turned to the buildings windows, would they open, and if so would they break?  Garry reassured the guests that the glass was "unbreakable".  Mere words would not do, a demonstration was required, Garry being the consummate professional launched himself against the glass, it didn't break, Garry had surely proven his point? Ever the lawyer Gary was determined to prove that the windows were unbreakable, one might say to the point where there could be no reasonable doubt.  Thus as he threw his body at the window, the pane of glass, dislodged itself from the frame, and poor Garry fell 24 floors to his untimely death.  Poor Gary.

In modern Mexican-Spanish the words Pena Ajena are apt, as far as I am aware there is no direct English translation, but loosely it describes the embarrassment one feels when watching the humiliation of another, essentially the kind of shirking laughter that is caused by watching a Ricky Gervais character, such as David Brent or by the realisation as an Arsenal fan that Tottenham are paying Emmanuel Adebayor a wage packet every week, the comical face palm moment.  It seems to fit here.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155020/butters-commits-suicide
See the link above for a partial reenactment, and remember no matter how well built, Windows will always crash.