Screwed up

As Theo walks into his boss’s office, the boss announces to him pompously: “Today you can actually do something worthwhile. Drive my Tesla to Müller’s in Bern and bring him these plans. He needs them by five at the latest.”

At first, he isn’t sure whether he’s being taken for a ride yet again or whether he should perhaps feel flattered this time. When the Tesla, for some reason, refuses to budge, his stress kicks in. He doesn’t want to go back to the boss … he can’t. He’s already put up with enough humiliation from that arsehole. So, without further ado, he decides to take the train – his only remaining option. It pisses him off terribly, but it should just about be in time. When the lift in the underground car park takes an age to arrive, his brain goes into overdrive, he’s seething, and a string of vulgar curses rattles out of him. Finally at the top, he storms out the door and stumbles along the path to the tram. It leisurely closes its doors right in front of him and drives off, squeaking innocently.

And so the final attempt to save his career as a star architect comes to a pitiful end.