Page 34 of Hockey Bois
“I didn’t lose it,” Chad said with a laugh. “It’s in my wallet.”
This got Nick’s attention enough that he looked up. “You still have it?”
“’Course, bro!”
Nick’s phone vibrated again, several times in succession. He eyed it longingly. Checking it was a lot more tempting than it had been a minute ago. Whatever that was, it was going to be way less frustrating than this conversation.
He tapped his phone a couple times as he tried to work up the willpower to deal with Chad. “Then why do you need a new one…?”
“I maxed it out on my last business trip, and I’ve got another one coming up this weekend—” The phone buzzed again, and Chad’s face twitched. “You gonna get that? Like, you should have your phone on silent during work hours, bro.”
Nick gave Chad a scathing look. Like he didn’t see Chad checking his phone every two seconds during meetings, notifications or not. Honestly, Nick was already showing inhuman restraint by both ignoring his phoneandnot kicking Chad’s ass out of his office.
“I’m not authorizing you for a new credit card,” Nick said firmly.
“But—but the company should’ve already paid the balance—”
“As I have said no less than 100 times, it’s paid at the end of the week. Sometimes it doesn’t get processed until Monday of the next week because of the banks, and there’s nothing we can do about that. That’s why you need to make sure you don’t get too close to that max, especially if you know you’ve got another trip coming up.”
“But if I had asecondcard—”
He was cut off by another buzz from the phone. Nick picked it up this time, the ultimate power move to show how little he cared about this conversation.
Brady was texting him.
“I can’t help,” snapped Nick, “but even if I could, I wouldn’t. If you went over your allotted per diems, that’s on you,bro.”
“E-excuse me?” Chad sputtered. “Bro—”
“Sorry,” Nick said and waved his phone. “Oh no, looks like this is Stacy from upstairs. Super urgent. You know how it is. Gotta reply ASAP. Have a good trip. Hope it’s not too expensive.”
It took effort not to rub it in more, but he forced himself to ignore Chad and instead unlock his phone. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Chad slink away, and he congratulated himself on the small victory, even if the victory would likely be short-lived… His inbox would be flooded with emails from both Chad and Chad’s boss, both of them CCing Nick’s boss to try and get him in trouble. It wouldn’t work—Nick was following company policy—but that wouldn’t make it any less of a headache.
Jensie from Hockey (2:45 p.m.)
what is wrong with this state
[crab6582c.jpg]
[Image description: A picture of a meme. It looks like a screenshot from a video game. It has a picture of a crab and reads, “You approach a LONELY CRAB. He appears to be weeping.” There are two choices at the bottom: “Seduce him” and “Devour.”]
Jensie from Hockey (2:47 p.m.)
[maryslkjeowiumeme0981234098.jpg]
[Image description: A picture of a meme. It has nine pictures of Leslie Knope, each with a wildly different outfit and facial expression. The pictures are labeled with different locations in Maryland: Baltimore, Southern MD, Eastern Shore, I-495, Annapolis, Bethesda, Mechanicsville, Dundalk, and Glen Burnie.]
Jensie from Hockey (2:48 p.m.)
where are you from??
I’m just gonna guess from the pictures
you are most definitely from… Annapolis
I don’t know much about Maryland but that 495 one is spot on
is there really a Mechanicsville?
