What's in the water?

Next week I will resume Taiwanese Tuesdays. Sorry for taking a break on that.
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I went to two water coolers at work yesterday morning, but both of them were empty. I really don’t like to change the bottles on those coolers…not just because I’m a wimpy girl (which I totally am), but because it hurts my hand with carpal tunnel. I was walking down the hall, figuring I would just have to wait for some awesome person to take care of it, when I saw a coworker walking down the hall with a water bottle. Yes!

As I followed this man down the hall, however, I did a double take. It looked like something was stuck to the bottom of the bottle. "Well, that is odd," I thought.

But wait! It wasn't stuck on the bottom of the bottle, it was inside the bottle, floating around!

I hurried to catch my coworker as he set the bottle on the floor. "There’s something inside that bottle," I exclaimed! He glanced at me in surprise and then tilted the bottle to see what was inside. We glanced back at each other in disbelief and looked back down.

"It looks like a toy," I said. "Like an, well, an action figure!"

We looked around in stunned silence with a few other coworkers standing around, and tried to make sense of it. One woman wondered, "Did we win a prize or something? Like, is this a promotional thing?"

"I have no idea," I responded, "but we shouldn’t use this bottle." I looked at the man who had carried it down the hall and asked, "Would you mind taking this one back down the hall and exchanging it?" He graciously complied.

I chuckled to myself as I walked back to my desk, wondering how an action figure managed to get inside a bottle of water. It got even funnier to me as I recounted the story to a few of the ladies I work with. The woman that sits next to me called the water company to report it. I don’t know how she managed not to giggle while saying the words, "There is something in the bottle. An action figure."

I burst out laughing.

Would you like to see this thing of hilarity? You are in luck, because I just so happened to take pictures.

The company said that they would replace the bottle for us, of course. And the lady on the phone didn't find it humorous when we asked if we won a $10,000 prize.