The Water

“You call it a bubbler; or a cooler?”

“Excuse me?”

“Bubbler or cooler?”

“Clearly it bubbles, so there’s your answer.” The pocket-sized Poindexter looked the probationary project over, from feet to head. “And where’s your tie? Shave your beard. And stop asking dumb questions, new guy,” the iceberg said to the Titanic. “If you make it ninety days, it’ll be another ninety before anyone actually…