Oh, without a doubt.

by Caroline

Last night my supervisor held his birthday party at a bowling alley and bar in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

A nerdy colleague took his turn and put a lot of mustard on the ball, which curved almost into the gutter before it came back for a strike. He turned, made a braggy face, and said, “That’s how you get it done. The straight line.”

“I don’t know,” I said. “That wasn’t a straight line, more like — ”

Then we both said, “A parabola.”

“I feel pretty confident saying we’re the two biggest nerds in this company,” I said.

“Oh,” he said, “without a doubt.”

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