What started as a joke...

I'm a busy person - typically during the week my attention is focused in many directions and normally I have people waiting to talk to me or needing me to finish something for them.

That concept has led my team members to take interesting actions to get my attention. What started as a joke has gotten out of control...

One of the senior people in my company needed something from me but so that he could have priority in my attention he brought me poptarts. It's not just that he brought me poptarts, it's how he handed me the poptarts. In a jester that required him to bow, lower his head, hand me the poptarts like a sacrifice and then walk away backwards got my attention (and made many of us laugh). That was around 7:30am and the poptarts made for a great breakfast while I answered his questions and reviewed his documents.

Many people observed my love for poptarts and realized the way to get my attention is through my stomach (which is growing by the second lately).

By noon I had ten sets of poptarts on my desk. By 2pm the vending machines on our floor were cleared of poptarts as they sat on my desk. By 4pm the floors we had access to had no more poptarts. They were in stacks on my desk. All kinds of flavors.
By 6pm people were venturing out of the building to the train station until I said enough.

I have a desk full of poptarts, chocolate, bottles of water and Starbucks. Everyone got their questions answered, documents reviewed and priorities reestablished. I didn't get my work done but the day was so funny to me I just doesn't matter.

I'm done eating poptarts for a while. I handed out the leftovers to the homeless in the train station.