He’d been overwhelmed at lunchtime, bombarded from all sides by questions.

Everyone assumed that Jim, Pam’s closest coworker, would have all the answers.

He was afraid, at first, that Karen would be suspicious of the general assumption that Jim knew Pam best. But she seemed just as distracted as anyone else.

Apparently, she and Pam had been friendlier than he’d thought.

To make matters worse, Dwight had seemed particularly smug all day long.

So, of course, Jim's brain wasn’t quite at full capacity when, digging for his calculator, he opened his bottom drawer and found a frosty yellow jello mold.