delinquent balloons

At the coffee shop today, a woman presented herself as being "from the regional office" and handed me a business card saying "Gwen Jackson, Investigator, Canada" and said she was here to review our video footage. Apparently our alarms had gone off several times the previous night while the store was closed. Despite the impressive title and business card, the woman herself looked like a frumpy 50-something house-mom who hadn't gone out in a few years. If I had that business card, I'd at least wear a pair of shades, even if they had to be those big monstrosities you can wear over your presctiption glasses for driving.

After a few brief moments with the video footage Gwen Jackson, Invesitagor, Canada declared, "Just as I thought. It was the balloon." It seems the culprit was an old helium balloon left over from when a fellow barista received a secret admirer's package on Valentine's day. Since it was a windy night, the draft had made it bob around more than usual and set off the motion detectors. According to The Investigator balloons are frequent culprits for setting off motion detectors.