“Can I interrupt you?” I asked as I stopped by my boss’ office door. He was sitting with Rachel. She had just come back from a two week vacation so I’m sure they were shooting the breeze more than anything else.
“Not if that is a vacation request form in your hand.”
I held it behind my back and smiled as big as I could. I spoke through my toothy smile, “Of course not!”
He looked at me, I looked at him, and then I just handed it to him.
“When is it for?”
”Next week.”
”All week??”
”No, just Monday and Tuesday.”
Rachel chimed in, “It’s his birthday!”
”Oh, right right…”, he drifted off staring at his calendar. “Wait, no, I have you scheduled for meetings both days.”
”Are you being a jerk?”
Rachel busted out laughing, probably to soften my bluntness.
“No, really, you have meetings on both days.”
Meetings? Why don’t I know of these meetings?? I crumpled up the request form and restrained myself from beaming him across the head with the wad of paper in my hand or shoving it in his mouth and making him choke on it.
“What were you going to do on those days?”
”Cry.”
”It’s just the big 3-0!”
It didn’t really help that he put it that way.
“Just wait till you hit 50, “ he said with a feel-my-pain smirk.
“I wasn’t planning on making it to 30. Part of me still believes I’m going to fall over dead just minutes before midnight of the big day hits.”