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For the past month, the 5 Senses crew have been indulging in some particularly childish behaviour. A game of ‘You’re It’, an adaptation of Chasey, has been raging across the country.

It all started, as a lot of the 5 Senses tomfoolery does, with the Roaster boys — with Richo, specifically. With a few ground rules established and the creation of a ‘You’re It’ webpage, Richo set the game in motion by ‘Rickrolling’ fellow roaster Jay, who happened to be enjoying a coffee trip in Bali.

The game is simple: ‘tag’ someone by making them read the words ‘You’re It’. The rules are few: ‘You’re It’ must be spelt correctly, you can’t get the butcher back and you must use a different method of tagging someone ‘it’ than the method that caught you out.

The result? Sheer madness! Mayhem in the roastery! There have been some obvious ploys, of course. A ‘You’re It’ screensaver, ‘You’re It’ notes in the tubs of coffee beans and ‘You’re It’ appearing out of the printer. But then there were the particularly devious moves, such as ‘You’re It’ appearing on a square of toilet paper when an unsuspecting Brad unravelled the roll. Jason, always hard at work, was the happy recipient of a delicious morning coffee … happy, that is, until he took his last sip and discovered that he was now ‘it’ — the dreaded two words were written on the cup. Ingenious indeed!

The 5 Senses crew in Melbourne also caught the bug, receiving an interstate ‘You’re It’ message along with one of their packages. One person invested time — rearranging keyboard letters to read ‘You’re It’; another invested money — making a direct deposit with the reference ‘You’re It’ into the 5 Senses account in order to tag one of the Accounts team.

The only problem was that everybody was impatient to try out their own fantastic idea of how to tag the next person — and not everybody could wait until they were ‘it’. Consequently there were, at one stage, three games running concurrently. One person (who seriously needs to get a life!) even confessed that she couldn’t get to sleep one night for thinking up various creative ways to tag the next person ‘it’.

There was cake delivered on a napkin bearing the words ‘You’re It’, Fantales lurking in the lolly jar with ‘You’re It’ scrawled inside the wrapper, and the game even went international with ‘tu es il’ catching one unsuspecting person out. Even the odd customer was roped into participating, passing on a ‘You’re It’ message to 5 Senses’ unwary delivery driver. Fortunately, it’s back down to a more manageable single cross-country game now.

Even if you think the 5 Senses crew must be slightly crazy, surely you’ve got to admire the creativity? And if nothing else, at least it’s been a lesson in grammar. I’m sure everyone must have learned the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ by now! By the way, having read this, ‘You’re It’!