Don't Look a Gift Card in the Mouth

I think people at work nominate me to go to the recording studio to torment me. I sit there listening to voiceover recordings and/or recording them myself when all I really want to do is bust out into song in that booth. But I always manage to muddle through. Today, my coworker and I went over for a session and were told by a colleague as we were heading out of the office that we should bring back gift cards. Apparently the studio had gift cards to Starbucks, Lowes, and Barnes and Noble and we should bring back a ton of them. This sounds great. Who doesn’t love free shit?

We arrive at the studio, have our hour session, shoot the shit with the producer and start to put our coats on. Nobody has mentioned any gift cards. They’re certainly not lying around for the taking. Are we supposed to ask for them? Is that polite? Or acceptable? We start to head for the door, which is about 2 feet from the studio... In what seems like the slowest slow-motion humanly possible. My co-worker is trying to make eye contact with the receptionist in case he wasn’t aware or 100% sure that we were really LEAVING and maybe forgot to offer us some gift cards. I am dying inside, and can’t even look at her, wondering whether she’s going to come out and ask for them and how potentially awkward that would be. We reach for the door handle. So... We’re gonna go. We are actually going now. For real. Leeeeaving... Gonna head on out, for good. Not coming back. Yea, uh, well adios then. Sayonara. Cough, GIFT CARDS, cough cough. Ok bye. We are so not getting gift cards...