Watch what you say

When you're poor and really bad at consumption smoothing, you find yourself with 10 days left till payday and only 50 HK dollars left in your pocketbook.

That is about 8 US dollars.

Another poor guy at work offered to spot me some dough but I am trying to hold out as long as possible.

Anyway when you're this broke you can't go out for lunch with your office buddies. So I ate some healthy but tasteless leftovers in the lounge with Jasmin, and then unexpectedly, Beth joined us too.
Beth can be pretty funny but in a way that makes you nervous. Like I mentioned before, she has a sarcastic way of saying things that makes me chuckle inside and makes everyone else wonder if she is really serious. But she is also fobby, but educated in the US, so what she says usually "makes sense" but inadvertently sounds kind of funny.

We were just having some regular girl talk when one of the guys from our department (nice and unconsciously very metro, he carries a black murse and thinks that's normal) returned from lunch. I had emailed him earlier asking him what he was doing for lunch and he hadn't responded, so I called out to him.

"Hey Brian, where did you go for lunch?" I asked

"I ate with Hector from UD department," he said.

"You LOOOVE Hector!" I accused. He ate lunch with Hector very often, like every other day. Which was fine, I just liked to tease him about it. Brian is clearly not gay, but his metro ways left the HR women wondering sometimes.

"Whatever," he said.
Brian is really familiar with the local eateries and he always knows where the dank is, so I was curious.

"Where did you guys eat, what did you have?"

"We had some Cantonese food. Was good." (He's a fob too.)

"Why didn't you answer my email?"

"Oh, sorry. Well, I made plans with Hector already--"

"You LOOOOVE Hector!" I exclaimed again. Jasmin giggled.

"Hey. Watch what you say," Beth warned in an ominous tone of voice. Her eyes flattened to dark slits.

I couldn't tell if she was serious or not.