4:26 p.m. As a Plaza eatery came to life in preparation for evening diners, grills were fired up, tables were set and the floor vacuumed. About this time, a Plazoid wandered in to use the pay phone in the hallway, but the whooshing floor cleaner made it rather too hard for him to concentrate on his conversation. Soon thereafter, a major BAM! and some subsidiary wham-bang-booms were heard by office workers on adjacent floors, who wondered what the...?
Evidently, the excitable fellow had become "perturbed" at the droning vacuum cleaner and did the only logical thing –bodily wrenched not just the pay phone, but the entire carved-oak phone frame from the wall. His sense of justice unsatisfied, the enraged conversationalist dragged the massive telephone assembly down the hallway with ripped wire entrails flopping along behind as he ineffectually hammered at the restaurant's walls and cut-glass windows with the plastic phone handset in a shrieking display of protest at the unfairness of the situation.
When he reached the Chef's Special sign a few feet away, matters took another ugly turn as the flimsy plexiglass holder advertising tantalizing Fresh Ahi topped with a piquant lime-butter sauce, served with rice pilaf and grilled pineapple slices, $14.95, was mercilessly sundered from its mount and left to languish on the floor. With his conquest over pressure-molded plastic items demonstrated to a degree certain, the testosterone-charged soul then wandered down a passage fortunately bereft of punishable outcroppings, which led him to the street and a fresh start in life, one hopefully free of mean vacuum cleaners.
But, as employees looked on agog at the entertainment rampage, the raging rambler offered an innovative final flourish upon his exeunt –that of hurling an umbrella at a white-hatted kitchen assistant whose lettuce-chopping activity evidently linked him to the vacuum's cruel effrontery. And at that, he was gone, if not soon forgotten.
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Jesus saves, but everyone else in a 10 foot radius takes full damage from the fireball.