Darrell has an Awful, Awful, Truly Awful Nightmare Of Gigantic Proportions - Part 1

Oh mon dieu .......  Darrell woke up last night sweating profusely, a deathly shade of pale and his eyes bulging out of his head, yelling "No, no, no,  you can't do this to us!" There really was no doing with him. It took me ages to get him to calm down and reassure him over and over again that he'd just had a very, very bad dream.  He said it had all been so real  ........... I was a little afraid to ask him what had frightened him so much, for fear that he might suffer some sort of post nightmare traumatic stress in recalling it but this is what he told me ......... he said that he dreamed that Nigel had been asked to report to the kitchen a little earlier than usual and was a handed a letter by a clearly distressed Cook Lady ……

and when Nigel found a quite spot to read said letter, wondering what it was all about …..

………he found that it was a letter saying that the kitchen were making him redundant  …..

……..saying that his services were no longer required and that he was being replaced by self-service sauce dispensers, sauce sachets and their rotation now being a thing of the past!
Nigel then became as distressed as The Cook Lady …….
……. Darrell said that he saw Nigel gazing  up at The Cook Lady with pleading, puppy dog eyes …….
……. clinging to one of his beloved sauce sachets for whatever solace it would give ……..

…….but The Cook Lady said that was nothing she could do, this edict had come from Head Office …. "it  wasn't personal" they had told her, "It was business!" She had pleaded for Nigel’s “survival” and argued the case to keep him on most robustly, but they were having none of it, Nigel was for the chop!
Darrell then saw  Nigel leaving, looking back at his beloved kitchen ….. bravely holding back the tears as he made his way to our office …..
…….and then the dam of tears bursting …..

…….. Nigel was totally and absolutely inconsolable, and despite a comforting hand from the Office Ladies there was no doing with him …….

But Darrell's dream did not end there ...... there was more ..... much more to come!!!