“Hearsey, I’m appreciative of the work you have done in such a timely manner,” said Benford. “You have my thanks. I would have in years past written up an exceptional performance award for you, or a laudatory unit citation for your team, but in the achromatic Agency of today, I am reduced instead to presenting you with a gift certificate to the Starbuck’s coffee emporium here in Headquarters so you can enjoy what the gum-chewing young woman behind the counter astoundingly calls a grande café latte, with milk.” Angleton looked down on them slantidicular from the wall.
Just like the MOD then
