{"id":473,"date":"2026-05-01T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=473"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:33:22","slug":"good-enough-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/text\/good-enough-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Good enough for me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A response to the Day 3 Writing Prompt Boot Camp<\/a>, because I’m sitting in Writing Group not writing and I should just pick something. Even if I don’t think I write fiction. 3 years ago, I thought I didn’t write poetry and I was wrong about that, so…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bob O’Connell dropped his bag on one of the four-legged grey chairs in his office, and himself into his black desk chair. He tapped the keyboard 3 times to wake his laptop. He was greeted by his own face and a password box, and that’s when he noticed that the white “Property Of WJA Data Analytics” label on his laptop was obscured by a little black cookie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob looked around his office. Nothing looked to be disturbed, though as he scanned piles of paper and notebooks on his desk, he gave a half-smile and thought “but how could anyone tell.” More importantly, it didn’t seem that anything else had been added. Just one cookie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He snapped the cookie in half to reveal the black cookie under its chocolate icing. The scent confirmed it… a Girl Scout Thin Mint. And impulsively, he popped a half in his mouth before he really started wondering where it came from. Chewed, swallowed, started to wonder who’d have a key to his door but not leave a note, decided he wasn’t poisoned, and ate the other half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next day, he returned from lunch to find another Thin Mint on his laptop. He called to the next office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hey Megan? Is this cookie from you?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What cookie?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short blonde woman poked her head in Bob’s office. “I didn’t get a cookie.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Did you see anyone?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No, but I’ve been in meetings all morning. Ooh, Thin Mints! And well past Girl Scout cookie season too.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You want it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megan squinted her eyes at the little disk. “No no, that’s your mysterious gift. I couldn’t possibly.” Her computer chimed and she went back to her office for the next meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob studied the dark icing for a moment, and ate the cookie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next day, no cookie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No cookies at home over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday morning, 4 cookies. Bob tore a page out of a notebook and wrote “Thanks, whoever you are.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, after he went for an afternoon cup of coffee, one cookie, and a note. “No problem” in thick strokes of green fountain pen ink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was in his own handwriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No cookie the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day, the opulent ring of a Samoa, chocolate, coconut, and caramel mounded high. And another note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We were out of Thin Mints.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This story brought to you by the letters N, O, T, I, and S<\/a>. In one of my first library jobs, I had a dumb terminal connected to a NOTIS mainframe, and I swear it worked better when I offered it a Thin Mint cookie. Truth is, I proceeded to eat those cookies myself, not wanting to leave food on my desk in the library. But I liked the idea of them disappearing in the past and reappearing somehow in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Featured image: “Girl Scout Cookies – Thin Mints & Samoas” by brian, CC-BY-SA at https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/bA8bVk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A response to the Day 3 Writing Prompt Boot Camp, because I’m sitting in Writing Group not writing and I should just pick something. Even if I don’t think I write fiction. 3 years ago, I thought I didn’t write poetry and I was wrong about that, so… Bob O’Connell dropped his bag on one … Continue reading Good enough for me<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-7D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6949731061_83dcbc5bf9_c.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}