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Employees in a local business were embroiled in a mêlée earlier this week when an unnamed staff member was called in about picking his teeth with a serrated knife.

Several employees were shaken when the situation escalated from a simple sniping using notes on a refrigerator door to an all-in fracas.

Says a source, “Well, it’s been going on for a couple of years now, but nobody liked to say anything. This person would come in and have their lunch, and then pick out the long bread knife we use for cutting up tea-cakes. They’d sit there peaceably picking away between their molars, or even holding a conversation with someone. The knife is double-sided and serrated, and I don’t mind telling you, it used to give me the willies. Anyway, I said to one of the girls, you know, it’ll be an eye out next, never mind the casual rinse of the knife before it’s replaced in the drawer. Finally one of the others had had enough, and put up a note on the tea room fridge. That pair were always going off at each other about something, but this was ridiculous.”

With various complaints and opinions flying back and forth for a number of weeks, the situation eventually erupted with foodstuffs and paper towelling being thrown around the workplace before managers put a stop to the scuffling.

The two staff members involved were nowhere to be found while the conniption was taking place, and were later discovered exchanging meaningful dialogue of a romantic nature in a broom closet.

-All Points Lead Home News Network.

Not The Sydney Morning Herald 67
12th August 2005