Every year the secretary comes collecting $2.00 from everyone for the flower fund. Here’s the simple, one-line email we delinquents received this morning:
Just a reminder about the flower fund. Please pay your $2 as soon as possible.
I like to ignore her the first few times, because over time she starts chasing me down by phone, then in the hallway. It slowly turns into something this:
It’s one of the small pleasures I get from my job.
About Mike Oliveri
Mike Oliveri is a writer, martial artist, cigar aficionado, motorcyclist, and family man, but not necessarily in that order. He is currently hard at work on the werewolf noir series The Pack for Evileye Books.
