A Tiny Bowl of Water

Everybody Goes

 

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Everybody, it was stressed, with heavy, breathy accents on all the syllables, Everybody on the sales team went to The Llewin Lounge on Thursdays after work.

Evan Sertcyk wasn’t gonna say no the first time, but he was going to spend considerable brain power figuring out how to ditch every time thereafter and still keep his social capital in this new town, new position.

The talk wasn’t business, it was personal and banal and no great shocker, and Evan wondered rightfully how this crap could possibly make anyone sell more prefab backyard decks.

But Evan knew to play the game, keep getting rounds with the rest of them and letting the drinks find their way to bus tubs and side tables unfinished.

His mind drifted, because it had to for his own sanity, when Rachel…he was pretty sure it was Rachel… leaned over and said “How bout you, Ev?”