An office too big

I was working for a while in Enniscorthy, Ireland, at the construction site of a new Dunnes Stores retail center.

There was a large room at the top level to which the only entryway was a small opening that you'd have to duck your head to get through.

Further queer still, the construction work in the small adjacent room looked as if even that small opening was not going to remain.

And it didn't.

According to a foreman on site, the large room had been intended to be an office.

When the administration of Dunne's Stores Limited saw the room, they decided that it was too spacious. It might give its occupant big ideas — "notions."

At completion of the project, that space was closed off, sealed — and presumably remains completely unused and inaccessible.

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