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Va a vaest blood and extre upon others for financial or eantic pain in the butt

I’ve always been a glass-half-full kind of girl

The irritated look froans, told me that, one, I’d said that out loud, and, two, he just didn’t care But at that point, I was the only person sitting at the pseudo-sports bar on a Wednesday afternoon, and I didn’t have the cognitive control required to stop talking So he had no choice but to listen

I picked up the relowed blue against the neon lights of Shenanigans’

insistently cheerful decor, casting a green shadow on Gary’s yellow-and-white-striped polo shirt “See this glass? This lass isn’t half empty It’s half full And I was used to that My whole life has been half full Half -full family, half-full personal life, half-full career But I settled for it I was used to it Did I already say that I was used to it?”

Gary, a gone-to-seed high-school football player with a gut like a deflated balloon, gave“Are you done with that?”

I drained the watered-down vodka and blue liqueur fro as the alcohol hit the potato skins in my belly

Both threatened to make an encore appearance

I steadied h the icy reone Colass”

Gary replaced said glass with another drink, pretended to wave at so room, and left me to fend for myself I pressedas I re, cat-that-devoured-the-canary tone Mrs Stubblefield used to say, “Jane, I need to speak to you privately”

For the rest ofout of Carrie

With a loud “ahem,” Mrs Stubblefield motioned for me to leave my display of Amelia Bedelia books and come into her office

Actually, all she did was quirk her eyebrows But the wory/curious, it looked as if a big gray n language

My joyless Hun of a supervisor only spoke to people privately when they were in serious trouble Generally, she enjoyed chastising in public in order to (a) show the staff just how badly she could embarrass us if she wanted to and (b) show the public how put-upon she was by her rotten, incompetent employees