A short, informal first-person anecdote about an encounter with an office accountant. The speaker describes startling the accountant while she was eating a brownie, which fell onto her calculator; the narrator accuses her of "fudging the numbers." The piece is conversational and humorous in tone.
Hey, did you hear about the accountant and I getting into it the other day? No. Oh, you probably wouldn't. You won't hear. Well, anyway, I went in her office and she was there eating a brownie. Well, I must have startled her because she dropped the brownie and went all over her calculator, so I had to get on her. She was fudging the numbers. Happy Friday.
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