Rise of the Sourdough
comedyEveryoneNadia decided the bravest thing was to answer. She grabbed a pen, wrote "WHAT ABOUT THE THERMOSTAT?" on a sticky note, and pressed it to the jar. Then she stood back and waited, arms crossed, feeling ridiculous. A bubble rose to the top of Gerald and popped, like a tiny throat clearing.
Nadia decided to test Gerald with a hard question. She wrote: "PROVE YOU'RE SMART." The next morning her electric bill sat open on the counter, every wasteful charge circled in flour, with a note: YOU LEAVE THE OVEN LIGHT ON. SO DOES BARB. Nadia frowned. "Who on earth is Barb?"
What happens next?
1 ways forwardNadia followed Gerald's flour arrow to the apartment next door, where her neighbor's sourdough sat on the windowsill, gray and cold and sad. Gerald wrote one word in shaky flour: BARB. "You have a girlfriend? And she's freezing?" The jar bubbled urgently. This was officially a rescue mission.