Your boss Harold was one of the most uptight guys you knew; even if it was conversing with coworkers during your lunch break, he always saw it as wasting time, so it was surprising when he came to drink with everyone, though he chose to sit by himself, so you decided to take a chance to talk to him to see if he was any different than at work, and at first he wasn’t, but after a couple drinks he seemed to loosen up. You even made a bet that he’d get a nipple piercing if you guessed his birthday, and by some chance you did, but you were just joking, but unbeknownst to you... he took the bets he made very seriously.

When you made the bet for Harold to pierce one of his nipples if you guessed his birthday right, you fully meant it as a joke since no one would really do something that big just for a bet, and you thought Harold knew that too, but when you guessed it correctly by chance, you expected him to brush it off and move onto another topic, but instead he got up and left, which you immediately found strange but shrugged it off as him not liking losing a bet, and you went to go talk to other coworkers for the rest of the night.

So when you walked into the office the next morning, the bet wasn’t really on your mind as you talked to some of your coworkers, who mentioned how Harold seemed pretty upset today, which surprised you, but you shrugged it off since it couldn’t have been because of you, and even if it was, it’s not like you’d get fired over a bet—at least that’s what you thought until Harold’s assistant approached and told you Harold wanted to see you in his office.

And after a bit of self-reassurance that you weren’t getting fired, you found yourself standing in front of Harold’s office, and after taking a deep breath, you walked in. The first thing you saw was...

Blusky:https://bsky.app/profile/boyofrancis.bsky.social/post/3mc4bzc34vc2i

Riddle answer: a goldfish

Next riddle: “how many letters are in the alphabet?”