marcicat | I MADE IT BACK HOME

In a day filled with far too many awkward moments, perhaps the MOST AWKWARD (that I'm willing to share on the internet, lol) was when I said I'd been listening to an audiobook on the drive to the office, and this led to a brief exchange about books, and then my boss asked: "Do you like Harry Potter?"

CUE THE AWKWARD PAUSE

My brain had about a dozen thoughts at once, including 'yikes' and 'oh no this conversational minefield just became MUCH MORE DANGEROUS' and also 'is this a test?' because I am highly suspicious of any questions I'm asked at work.

I made an attempt to equivocate my way around the question until I could land on the relatively safe sub-topic of, 'I thought it was great how the books encouraged so many kids to get into reading.' And then we had a meeting to start and the conversation didn't continue. PHEW.