"At Denicorp?" her dad asked. "That's great. I have a joke for you."
"Oh God," Nati grumbled under her breath, but her dad went ahead, not noticing.
A programmer's wife says, 'Honey, go down to the market and buy one bottle of milk. If they have eggs, get six.' So the programmer comes home with six bottles of milk. When his wife asks him, 'Why in the world did you buy six bottles of milk?' he says, 'Because they had eggs!'
I had heard it already, but I still giggled because it never failed. Nati covered her face with her hands. "He loves that awful joke."
I jostled her with my elbow. "How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?"
"Spare me, please."
"None. It's a hardware issue." That was Kai Rylan's favorite.
Mr. Reynolds guffawed. I grinned at Nati as her shoulders sh
