Clod, I'll think of you the next time I do a sweat lodge.
Speaking of which, welcome back.
When I worked for a consulting company, my supervisor had a very developed sense of humor. He told me (and apparently other newbies) that if the client we were working at had a holiday and our home office didn't have that holiday, we had to report to the office for in-house training.
He told me he was joking when he saw the expression on my face. I later heard he forgot to tell one guy he was joking until the day before an actual holiday, when the guy was actually going to report in.