Juice, not Another Kind of Fluid Here

I made my way downtown to meet two of my colleagues as one of them is having her birthday celebration. We went to a Thai restaurant, our usual Friday hangout. Over food and wine, I got updated about all the office gossips I missed. I am a good candidate to share gossip with. That's because I enjoy it and also because I don't spread it. I am usually close to one person who is good at observing and absorbing what's going on. I am known as an oblivious person, at least a quarter of a geek. I don't even respond to my name called out. But if somebody says, "juice, juice…" That was our secret code for juicy stories. I would react immediately, "yeah, tell me about it…"

Now when I look back, I realized it was one of the ways I made a situation better for myself. In reality, juice usually doesn't come in a cup, you have to suck it out.