Mia spent the day itching to be done with work. So, of course, the Universe laughed in her face. Her client meeting ran long, with every idea she presented being shot down, and entirely new requests being made that meant going back to the drawing board. From there, she got pulled in on a plumbing disaster on a residential job that required a quick change from her meeting attire into work clothes. Once that hemorrhage had been stopped, she’d gotten stuck on the phone arguing with one of their suppliers, who’d sold the custom-order tile she’d requested weeks ago to some yahoo who’d walked in off the street. She understood mistakes happened, but waiting on a new order was going to throw the entire job off by weeks, which put a monkey wrench in the schedule for all the other jobs they were jug
