I Tell the Truth Even When Pushed Out of Buildings

This is a terrible job you’ve done, I say to my coworker.

Joey McKeown
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Completely horrible. How could you even give this to me? Were you even thinking? He cries. He pushes me out the open window.

What he doesn’t know is that I always wear a parachute in skyscrapers. I float gently down and land on a cab.

Take me to Grand Central, I yell.

When I use my parachute I always get oysters and beer at Grand Central.

When I show up to work the next day, my coworker is a little awkward around me, but he says, Okay, I guess I could have done a better job. Here is the revised report.

I look at at and say, This is better, thanks.


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Joey McKeown

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Dark humorist. Fiction + satire.

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