23 Things Only A Chocolate Shop Employee Will Understand

16. Physics-Defying Displays

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Head Office have sent through the new layouts for the central table display. Ok, no problem. Everything is fairly straightforward: these boxes go here, those bars go there. Easy.

Except that the centrepiece of the display is a metre-high pyramid of the hollow chocolate bunnies that don't stand up properly on their own and have been driving you crazy all week anyway. Somehow, the design requires you to use exactly thirty-seven of there nightmares, and your innate ability to defy the laws of physics, to build a piece of non-Euclidean architecture in the middle of the store in the fifteen minutes before you open.

No problem.

 
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