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You managed to somehow avoid all of the traffic on your drive downtown and when you got to the coffee shop there wasn't even a line. All of the signs were pointing to this turning out to be a great morning. They even had one of your favorite muffins fresh out of the oven. You felt great as you walked into the office almost 10 minutes early for probably the first time ever.
You were feeling unstoppable as you clocked in and turned your computer on. It was while you were waiting for the operating system to load that you noticed the small box sitting on your desk that definitely hadn't been there when you had left on Friday night. It was a plain cardboard box about 4 inches on each side. You looked at it curiously. It was unusual for you to receive any mail at the office let alone a package.
You picked the box up and looked it over. It was pretty light, there weren't any markings on it anywhere to indicate who it was from or even that was meant to come to you. There was nothing to indicate why it had been left on your desk at all.
You weren't generally a paranoid person but something about this mystery box had gotten you excited and for some reason you felt like you shouldn't share this with anyone. You looked around to see if there was anyone watching and seeing that nobody was paying the least bit of attention to you or the box you were holding, you quickly grabbed the scissors out of your drawer and cut the tape holding the box shut.
One more quick glance around to assure yourself that nobody cared what you were doing and you opened the flaps and looking in the box where you saw...
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