Three years ago, I opened an office in a free standing building. I love the location because although it is near the city, it has a rural feeling w/all the trees and grass around it. It has a ton of natural light and the frames show really well on the wall. We put hardwood maple floors in, and the whole place has a very open feeling to it.
To add a little bit of class to the place, we added high-backed leather chairs at the dispensing tables.
About two years ago, I noticed that the chair at the dispensing where the customer would sit had two marks on the leather that looked almost like a chemical burn. The marks were about 8 inches long, and .25 inches wide.
I sampled all types of our cleaning agents on the material, but nothing would reproduce the mark. I switched chairs, and 6 months later, a larger, but similar mark showed up on the seat!
Yesterday, I had a meeting at that office w/ the manager and I got there a little early. I looked at the chair, and there was a distinctive burn HOLE, about the size of a quarter, all the way into the foam! I asked the mgr what happened, and he said that it was not like that when he left the evening before. The only thing he did was wipe everything down with furniture polish.
The track lights are about nine feet high, so I know they couldn't have generated that kind of heat.
We sat at the dispensing table and started the meeting, and then it hit me what had happened...
Anyone want to guess?
(You're all tons smarter than me, so you'll probably guess the answer much sooner than it took me, but I'm sure you'll get it.)
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Originally Posted by Jubilee
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