Takeout orders always fall two cents short of the minimum needed to use a coupon.
A man smokes his third cigarette at the print shop while his divorce papers turn into confetti in the shredder.
A woman in high heels stumbles outside the office, clutching a cup of soy milk that has gone cold.
In the thirtieth-floor cubicles, keyboards clatter faster than the rain. An office worker stays up all night and names the two-hundredth revision of a PowerPoint "Final Version, Absolutely No More Changes". On the desk calendar, February 24 is circled in red with "Mortgage Payment" written beside it.
The microwave at the convenience store beeps. The cashier on the night shift reheats the cold oden for the third time.
Rainwater beads on a delivery rider's helmet. While waiting for an order, he puts a fever patch on his forehead using the reflection in a mirror.
The quarrel between the young couple upstairs enters its spin cycle along with the washing machine.
The child next door turns "Für Elise" into "Scarlet Heart," while the old man across the hall scrolls through his phone with "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" playing.
The ordinary necessities and petty troubles of life: why not have tea together instead...
Theme: The person who loves you will always love you.
