Episode 96: The Right Tool is Everything

Terrastina looks for her favorite roller ball pen at the local stationery store. She can’t find any and goes to the clerk to ask about them. Oh, they discontinued that model last month, the clerk tells her. Terrastina blinks three times without saying a word. If I’d known, she finally says, I’d have bought your entire stock. The clerk smiles. I thought you’d say that, she says. She pulls out eight boxes of the pens. I kept these back for you. There are fifteen in each box. Terrastina chokes back tears. Thank you, she says. Thank you so much.

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