The Martini Clause

“My quarterly bonus is missing,” the saleswoman barked.

My first week as payroll coordinator and I’d already stepped in it.

“Where’s my money?” she demanded, hand on hip.

I shuffled a stack of already impossibly tidy papers. Anything to avoid eye contact.

“Put it in the man’s account, didn’t you?” she asked, her auburn curls taunting me.

Then it hit me. I had. Two Blake Browns on payroll. Both in sales. One man, one woman. And I chose… poorly.

“I’ll let you make it up to me,” she said, spinning on her overpriced red soles.

“A three-martini lunch. You’re buying.”