Flash! Fiction 3 by Peter McMillan - HTML preview
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“Can we get some more drinks over here?” Cami said to the waitress.
“C’mon, did you think 15 years after college you’d be doing this shit?” asked Cami.
“Course not, but I’ve had worse jobs—mailroom, warehouse. The worst was selling annuities door-to-door.”
“My last year of college I had a great offer. Entry level, with a multi-national and ‘lots of growth potential,’ they said.”
“What happened? You didn’t turn it down?”
“Don’t be stupid. They turned me down. Flunked the final in International Trade and then got turned in for cheating.”
“Did you?”
“Did I what?”
“Did you cheat?”
“Hmph! There was a lot going on back then. Anyway, the bastard was on to me and he tricked me. He deliberately checked all the wrong answers and like a fool I copied them exactly. Must’ve changed them back after I left. But he wasn’t as clever as he thought. Instead of a zero, I got a 12, so I hope it f____ his GPA.”
“I see. But why didn’t you go to Professor Battaglia and explain you were sick or in the middle of a tragedy or something and ask for a retest?”