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19He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break. He would 19He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.
20walk down the hallway to the breakroom, which had a white refrigerator, a 20He would walk down the hallway to the breakroom, which had a white refrigerator, a black microwave on a brown plyboard cart stocked with powdered creamer, sugar, and swizzle sticks, a dark red coffee maker, and yellow paint on the wall.
21black microwave on a brown plyboard cart stocked with powdered creamer, sugar, 21He'd remember that somewhere he'd read an article about yellow walls being calming.
22and swizzle sticks, a dark red coffee maker, and yellow paint on the wall. 22"They use yellow in asylums" he'd say to himself.
23He'd remember that somewhere he'd read an article about yellow walls being
24calming. "They use yellow in asylums" he'd say to himself.
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26He would sit down at the round table covered in newspapers that took up the 24He would sit down at the round table covered in newspapers that took up the half of the room not occupied by the refrigerator, microwave, or counter with coffee pot and sink.
27half of the room not occupied by the refrigerator, microwave, or counter with 25He didn't drink coffee but he would think about starting.
28coffee pot and sink. He didn't drink coffee but he would think about 26He would shuffle the newspapers around on the table and see they were all the same ones as an hour ago.
29starting. He would shuffle the newspapers around on the table and see they 27"Or technically fifty minutes ago" he would say to himself.
30were all the same ones as an hour ago. "Or technically fifty minutes ago" he 28Sometimes Jill would come in for a cup of coffee.
31would say to himself. Sometimes Jill would come in for a cup of coffee. She 29She would always check that her lunch, which she brought each morning in a Tupperware container with a blue lid with her name written on it in black sharpie, was still there.
32would always check that her lunch, which she brought each morning in a 30Once he asked her why she checked.
33Tupperware container with a blue lid with her name written on it in black
34sharpie, was still there. Once he asked her why she checked.
35 31
36"Why do you always check if your lunch is in the fridge" he asked. "I don't" 32"Why do you always check if your lunch is in the fridge" he asked.
37she said. "Oh I thought you did." "I don't think so." "Why do you check at 33"I don't" she said.
38all?" "Once it was stolen out of the fridge and returned empty before I had a 34"Oh I thought you did."
39chance to eat my lunch" she said. "So you make sure it won't happen again." 35"I don't think so."
36"Why do you check at all?"
37"Once it was stolen out of the fridge and returned empty before I had a chance to eat my lunch" she said.
38"So you make sure it won't happen again."
40"No I'm waiting for the day that it does." 39"No I'm waiting for the day that it does."