How Would This Happen

A woman wants to know what perscription drugs a coworker is on because she thinks that they will improve her life, but she is afraid of risking the taboo of asking someone a personal question like that.

Here's how I got to it. I was eating lunch at work and a woman walked into the break room to ask a question. After she left one of my coworkers said, jokingly, "I want whatever she's on." The woman in question is always positive to an extreme that it seems insincere, though by looking at her and hearing her say "awesome," you know that she isn't. Something about the look on her face, the way she carries herself, and a few of the things she says lead me to believe that she has had a hard life, a life that would only lead her to be forcing those emotions. Add to all of that she is a little bit spacy, and you could easily imagine that she's on the perfect cocktail of mood enhancing pharmaceuticals.

The story I have in mind involves taking that original question made in jest seriously. Either taken seriously from the get-go, or later on, after a bit of misery. Then the miser debates asking the woman what drugs she assumes she is taking. A lot of modern social taboos here, if you're like me and feel uneasy breaking people's personal boundaries like that.