I was just getting onto the elevator, and as the doors opened I saw the elevator's space being taken up by "the scrot," a very large beanbag we've had in our editorial department for years.

If memory serves, it was sent to us by a very-large-beanbag publicist.

He kept pushing it from all angles to get it through the door, and I thought: "I wonder if he's ever had to remove something like this before."

Reaching down to help pull it out of there, I asked, "Have you ever had to remove something like this before?"

"This is like my third one, actually," he said, and laughed. "A little more common than I thought they'd be when I signed up."