stay behind after everyone else got the next two weeks off, a precautionary step to stop the spread of corona. Paid vacation on top of the paid vacation the company already gave them. But, not missing an opportunity to squeeze every last penny out of the lemon of their workforce, they decided one worker could show up, not being able to spread the virus through an empty office, nor in proximity to anyone to be able to get the virus from himself. When your mom got the news, he was 100% sure that she took half a second to decide he’d be the one to stay.





She played coy and befuddled, but he wasn’t born yesterday. He sat at his desk, wound up like an impossible knot, filled withbe a gift to anybody. But your mom had three things that that threw a wet towel on all of it. The first being that fact that she was a workaholic. She wanted to continue working from home, but management put the red light on that, not wanting to burden her subordinates who would have to follow up with her work, as well as because they were worried that communicating solely through e-mails, rather than in person, would lead to miscommunication.





The other reason for her dourness, on this, what would otherwise be such a beautiful day, was her concern for her parents. Both of whom were in their late seventies. Twenty-one people had caught the disease in your city. fifteen of those in the last two days. She