He never took the lift because he got stuck once when I was away.
He waited two days for someone to let him out.
Even when he had a lot of files to carry
he'd take the stairs.
I heard there was an accident.
The cable broke. It crashed down ten floors
Maybe that's what made him so weird.
He never talked to us.
He didn t give a crap about anybody.
Right With him it was work, work, work.
He was the best employee in the department.
He was organised, punctual,
dedicated and extremely efficient.
You'd never have known it to look at him
but he was a very hard worker.
Never saw anyone work so hard.
Drove the rest of us nuts.
So, yeah, we razzed him a bit.
Nothing serious.
Hi-yo, Silver!
Away!
He never deigned to come in the cafeteria
He just kept working.
He'd work straight through.
We'd been married for five years.
We were happy.
If we'd known,
we wouldn't have done it.
It was just a joke For a laugh.
His fellow workers had played tricks on him before.
But that time...
You morons!
Can't you leave the guy alone?
Sorry, boss
What do you think this is? A ZOO?
At first it made me laugh
Edmond wasn't like other people. I'd always known that.
I think that's what I liked about him.
But it wasn t long before I realised that...
something odd was going on
We all felt awkward
but we didn't want to say anything.
It just wasn't... healthy.
People on every floor knew about it.
They'd all come to see the freak show
He'd gone to the Department of Health
He wanted a new birth certificate that said he was a donkey.
When they turned him down he parked himself
in that stubborn pose he took, and refused to leave.
They had to call the police
He came home later and later...
when he came home.
They said that he did things.
Yeah, that he did, like weird things with the donkey.
The doctors told me that Edmond
might have some sort of complicated disease.
I forget what they called it.
I got management's OK to take him back after his treatment.
He was fine.
He was back to normal.
Nobody understood it
It wasn't the place for that kind of thing.
It reflected badly on the department. No question.
I got married again after he passed away
but I never stopped thinking about my Edmond