[OTA - MINGLE] Most of the really pleasant things in life are worth repeating

[markwatney]

WHO: Mark Watney
WHERE: 6I Inn
WHEN: 28 Jan 2018, afternoon
OPEN TO: ALL - Mingle
WARNINGS: Drug use, obviously

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Here's the thing: I work for NASA. Granted, my job is a lot less high-profile than it used to be, but generally speaking, the United States government frowns on both astronauts and astronaut instructors getting baked. I just didn't do much drugs before I got here. Hell, despite having a porch routinely covered with drying marijuana branches, I don't do them much here.

Which is why it took me a moment to understand the implications of receiving a giant box of brownie mix with my name on it.

I have to assume (or at least hope) that the people in charge don't think I'm personally in need of 150 pot brownies, and with everybody stressed out about the weather, it makes sense to share. It takes me all morning to bake the things, even with Helen's help, but at least the house smells nice. We pile the aromatic squares into a roasting pan and carry it down to the inn along with a stack of Helen's soap — Sometimes the newer people don't realize we make soap and go around stinking for a week or more before someone points them to the butcher shop.

I've made a tiny sign from a tented piece of scrap paper and place it on the table in front of the bounty:

Free to all.
The brownies will get you high.
The soap will not.
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