Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-35836714-20191124103440/@comment-44464716-20191126011602

At first, I give a deep, hearty laugh. However, when I stop laughing, she's still looking at me with an absolutely-serious look on her face. "Wait; you're serious?" I ask her. She just nods. I immediately become very, very nervous.

"Well, you see; I'm more of a comedian, as you know. I just talk about all those movies and songs and stuff because it's the only material for jokes available in this city. I thought this was supposed to be a comedy daytime show."

"It still will be," She bluntly assures me. "It just needs a bit of... fanservice." Again, I try to dissuade her without outright refusing.

"Look; I can gladly tell jokes in front of a camera, but do... that... in front of cameras? I... I need privacy."

"Well," She retorts as she grabs my file, "I guess you're just going to have to find somewhere else to tell your jokes."

"Look," I protest; getting angry and feeling a little offended at this point, "Even if I could, I'd then have to find a mamono willing to do this with me on TV. I have no wife or girlfriend, and hiring someone for it, as I'm sure you know, would be problematic for all kinds of legal and moral reasons, and how would I ask someone to do something like this with me? This is ridiculous."

"Come on," She tells me as if she thinks I'm ridiculous, "I'm sure you could easily find someone willing."

Hoping to get her to finally understand how ridiculous her demand is, I ask, "Would you be willing?" I say this purely hypothetically; hoping simply to get her to understand what she's asking for. The answer she gives however, surprises me completely.

"Of course I would."

I cannot believe what I just heard. "You- you serious?"

"Absolutely," She then leans forward and raises her eyebrows, "And not just on TV."

I am completely dumbfounded, and my brain is automatically re-thinking every interaction I've ever had with her. She was certainly beautiful, but she's my boss, and I only ever saw her as that. I'm still not willing to have sex on TV, but my mind has switched focus to another topic entirely.

"I- I- …I still can't do as you ask. But, if I'm going to be cancelled, which would mean you're no longer my boss, can I get a date then?"

For a brief moment, she just looks blankly at me. Then, slowly, she begins to chuckle before blushing. "Sure."

After the meeting's over, I'm in need of a new job, but at least my "not having a wife or girlfriend" problem's been solved for now. 2 months later, she and I are still together, and HIFYM gets cancelled after only 3 episodes due to poor ratings and a potential-plagiarism controversy.