60 Second Stories By Cal - Bogey Ate My Sammich Again

I worked in a school where people's sammiches were getting stolen out of the staff room fridge and the guy who did it would leave a folded picture of a sorrowful looking Humphrey Bogart in the empty sammich bag with a caption that said 'Bogey is sorry he ate your sandwhich.'

I never got the reference but for six months it was almost an honor to be 'Bogied'. It affected how you made your sammiches because you almost wanted the attention, that is how sick it became.

He had been at the school so long that he regarded the staff fridge in the same way as his home fridge. It was sad but kinda funny. He was a weird sweet old bachelor science teacher and it just never seemed to sink that he had become a raccoon. I mean he got free coffee all day long so why not free food? He never left you with nothing - he was very democratic in his thievery.

Coincidentally the school had discontinued it's cafeteria program that year so everyone had to bring a lunch to school and the Bogie picture was his way of saying he didn't approve of the new school policy without being too aggressive about his opinion.

For nearly thirty years he never had to make a lunch it was just there for him. He was shocked it took so long to figure it all out. I remember thinking that he was disappointed in our lack of detection skills because all the clues did point to him.