It was meant to be a practical joke

There was an incident yesterday.  Greg Mitton, one of the Product Managers, glued together the fingers of Anne Marie Beatty in the Purchasing department.  It was meant to be a practical joke, but developed into a small drama. 
 
The incident occurred in the Purchasing department itself, one of the mini-offices on the general sales floor.  These rooms are separated off by glass partitions and people who work in them complain the experience is like being in a goldfish bowl.  The Purchasing department has a very sober atmosphere and is a most unlikely setting for any jokes to be played. 
 
Greg Mitton had crept into the office while Anne-Marie was on the telephone and had smeared the fingers of her right hand with Superglue, pressing them together.  Great hilarity followed, everyone in the little office joining in the laughter.  Anne-Marie’s laughter was almost certainly not genuine, and probably she was just laughing to be polite.  Laughter turned to consternation when Greg Mitton realised he did not have any Superglue de-bonder.  Consternation turned to recrimination when it was learned that there was no de-bonder anywhere in the building.
 
What made the debacle more acute was the difference in age between the two.  Greg Mitton is in his late ‘thirties and married with two small daughters, and yet still behaves as if he is a teenager (racing powerful motor-bikes, arranging “dirty-burger” eating competitions on the Sales Desk, shouting and clowning about the office all day).  He is a little on the short side, but with enormous muscles from years of weight-lifting, so that he has a hulking appearance that looks ever-so-slightly ridiculous.  He is very two-faced, and despite his senior position often joins in the moaning sessions periodically indulged in among the junior staff.  I suspect that several of the directors would like to get rid of him, but he is an expert at his job and would be very difficult to replace.  However outrageous his behaviour, somehow Greg Mitton always manages to survive.
 
Anne-Marie on the other hand has only just turned twenty, and only recently joined the company.  She is very beautiful, with a graceful elegant figure.  Her long hair is a shade of light-brown that is almost blonde.  She is softly-spoken, and very modest and feminine.  Because the air-conditioning in the Purchasing department is perpetually turned to cold, she always wears a cardigan which adds to her soft appearance.
 
Was it just a silly prank that had got out of control? 
 
Eventually one of Greg’s friends drove to a nearby hardware shop and bought some de-bonder.  Anne-Marie was freed.  None of the directors seemed aware that anything had happened.  Greg Mitton was unusually subdued the rest of the afternoon.

 “He’s just a big kid really” said Dean Bowden who had witnessed the whole thing.