Actual conversation
Dec. 17th, 2002 01:23 pmBoss: [hands over gift-wrapped box of chocolates] Here, I think you can have these.
TBQ: "Think" I can? Okay. Um, thanks.
Boss: Just don't tell my accountant, that's the only trouble.
TBQ: Huh? How come?
Boss: It would be bad if he knew.
TBQ: Why? Is this some kind of weird tax thing?
Boss: No, he's the one who gave me the chocolates. If he knew I regifted them it wouldn't go well.
TBQ: Ahhhh.
TBQ: "Think" I can? Okay. Um, thanks.
Boss: Just don't tell my accountant, that's the only trouble.
TBQ: Huh? How come?
Boss: It would be bad if he knew.
TBQ: Why? Is this some kind of weird tax thing?
Boss: No, he's the one who gave me the chocolates. If he knew I regifted them it wouldn't go well.
TBQ: Ahhhh.