Meal With It

My job pays a total of $35 per day for food while traveling, divided into breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The rules also say that each meal needs to be bought within certain time periods of two hours. You must eat breakfast between 8-10 AM, lunch between 12-2 PM, and dinner between 5-7 PM. They didn’t use to be too stringent about this because the person who approved travel expenses thought it was stupid.

Then they replaced her.

Because they would only approve a very cheap flight, I had to leave my home at 3 AM. I stopped to grab coffee and a bagel at about 5 AM. The new person rejected it and said I could only buy and eat food within a meal period.

Well, fine.

I used to work straight through lunch. Because I have to work with people from lots of time zones, this was sometimes necessary. Now I leave or reject calls because it’s in my lunch period and I must go lest I miss it.

No working late either. I leave at 5 PM because I can’t miss my dinner period. I also make sure to spend all $35. I must be healthy and not skip meals.

Coincidentally, hungry homeless people also enjoy my meal periods.