Wordle by Wordle: Day 181
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Wordle #1106 – ZEBRA
Bree might not be the most tech-savvy person in the Bay, but she’s still a Millennial—she knows better than to have her password be “password” or to write it down on a Post-it note right next to her computer.
I flip through a few nearby notebooks and peer under her laptop anyway, but I come up empty.
Without much confidence, I experimentally type in the numbers for Bree’s birthday. Wrong. Roy’s birthday. Also wrong. If only I knew Lola’s “Gotcha Day,” as Bree is fond of saying.
In one final, fruitless attempt, I type out “12345” and hit the return button. Wrong again.
“Well, damn...” Now I’m really at a loss for what to do next. “Maybe I should just go home.”
I was only thinking aloud to myself, but Lola barks as if in answer. I straighten up from the laptop and turn to face her.
“What is it, Lola?” Did Timmy fall down the well?
She’s standing in front of Bree’s collection of ceramic animals, staring at me with her beady, black eyes, yipping. Her tail wags hesitantly when I take a step toward her.
“Do you want some pets? Is that it?”
The closer I get, the more enthusiastically Lola wags her tail, until she’s practically hopping from foot to foot in anticipation. I give Bree’s ceramic zoo a cursory glance before I reach down to pat Lola.
There’s the hedgehog planter I gave to Bree as a housewarming gift. The succulents haven’t shriveled up and died yet, surprisingly.
Next to the hedgehog is a little ceramic cow, a rainbow-striped zebra, and—
“Froufrou?”
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