Wordle by Wordle: Day 27
Saturday, Jan 27, 2024
Wordle #952 - SNAKE
“Oooh, trouble in paradise?” This time Kevin’s eyebrows climb so high they disappear behind his fringe.
“I don’t know—you tell me.” I get up from my desk to slip a coffee pod into the machine. I need more caffeine for this. “Did Roy mention anything to you about Bree lately? Any arguments they’ve had?”
“He wasn’t too happy with some of her, uh, design choices for their new place. But, you know, nothing serious. Just venting.”
“And he would tell you if something more serious was going on, right?”
“Yeah, man, of course. Oh hey, just a sec,” Kevin says, both to me and to someone off-screen.
His camera whirls before going black and I take the opportunity to help myself to the coffee. My third cup in two hours. It’s almost too hot to drink, thick coils of steam rise up out of the mug like a snake in a basket, but I enjoy the bitter heat on my tongue.
Kevin pops back into view, now in a different room, and I pick up where we dropped off.
“So, does Roy have a beef with anyone else? Some pissed-off crypto bro who lost all his money or something?”
“Shit, there’s always someone who’s pissed off at Roy,” Kevin laughs. “Come on, he’s a celebrity now! Random people think they know him, and they don’t like him.”
This shouldn’t surprise me, but it does. I hadn’t really thought about him that way. Roy is just… Roy.
“Has someone made a credible threat, then?” I slosh a little coffee on my sleeve as I quickly put down the mug to take notes. “Any weirdos showing up at the office?”
“Just Arjun, but he works here.” Kevin chuckles at his own inside joke. “Nah, Roy gets like a hundred death threats a day on Twitter, but who doesn’t?”
Notes:
There are two things that come to mind whenever I hear “snake”: Metal Gear Solid and Toy Story.
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