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The party starts in ten minutes, and it’s already a disaster because the
centerpieces just arrived and they are bright canary yellow.
That may not sound like a catastrophe of epic proportions, but trust
me, in the eyes of my boss, this is a blunder on the scale of the Hindenburg.
Angus hates yellow. He hates it with a passion that might make you
think he was once married to yellow before yellow cheated on him with his
best friend.
Nobody who works for Galactic is allowed to wear yellow. No yellow
can be brought into the corporate offices. And most of all, no yellow is
allowed at parties.
I have picked yellow Skittles out of candy dishes. I have informed our
secretary that she can’t park her yellow Beetle in the company lot. I’ve even
thrown a mustard bottle into the lake at a company picnic.
At this point, I might hate yellow almost as much as my boss does.
But none of that is going to help me transform these fluorescent flowers
into the nice, calming shade of cream that I ordered.
“How did this happen?” I ask Martinique.
“I don’t know!” She gnaws at her thumbnail.
Martinique is my assistant. The assistant to the assistant because after I
caught pneumonia over Christmas, Angus finally agreed that my eightyhour work weeks weren’t sustainable.
Since then, she’s also become my best friend. And the only person who
keeps me sane while my boss slowly tries to drive me mad.
She’s been working here long enough to know what a calamity this is.
Martinique used to have lovely, manicured nails. She used to weigh twenty
pounds more. She used to have a social life.
But she’s been chewed up by the meat grinder that is Galactic just as
badly as I have.
“Where can we get more flowers?” she moans.
“We can’t. There isn’t time.”
Martinique lets out a wail at the volume of a whisper because she knows
that the only thing worse than these yellow flowers is Angus seeing these
yellow flowers before I can get rid of them.
“What can we do?”
A thousand mad ideas whip through my head, including scavenging the
planter boxes around the hotel.
Even if I ran out there with a pair of scissors, I don’t have time to
arrange centerpieces for twenty tables.
I grab Martinique’s hands and pull them out of her mouth before she
bites her nails to bleeding.
“Can you get me a can of spray paint?”
E , Martinique sprints back to the party with
two cans of spray paint in a plastic bag.
I’m waiting out back by the dumpsters, where I spray the centerpieces
silver, every leaf and bloom.
When I’m done, they look spiky and inorganic, like they might actually
be made of metal. It’s weird but also kind of cool. Or at least, I hope that’s
what my boss will think.
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