The next morning she wakes up to find that she is already fifteen minutes late for work! She was so frustrated last night she must have forgotten to set her alarm clock.
She jumps out of bed, strips off her pajamas and quickly jumps in and out of the shower. Then she rummages through her closet to find something to wear and quickly throws it on, no time to iron anything. She grabs her purse and rushes out the front door but she quickly realizes that she doesn’t have her keys, so she rushes back into the house, passing Rick on the couch and waking him up.
“Wow hey what’s the rush!” he asks half way asleep, “Not now Rick, I’m late for work and I can’t find my keys!” she says rummaging around the kitchen. “AH! This is all your fault!” she exclaims, “Me? It’s not my fault you’re not organized.” He says getting up off the couch, “Don’t start that again, and after your stunt last night I forgot to set my alarm!” she says rushing past him back to the bedroom.
“Yeah yeah find your keys and yell at me later, I’m going back to sleep.” Rick says. “Rick! All of us aren’t lucky enough to have weekends off.” She says out of frustration, at this point she didn’t know what to say anymore.
She pauses from her search to catch her breath and calm down. She was going to be late if she didn’t get on the road quick but she really didn’t want to, she couldn’t remember the last time she had a day off. And with that a strange light caught her attention, she looks over to see the coupon booklet glowing and right next to it lay the keys she had been looking for.
Relieved she walked over to the dresser and picked up her keys, she had just enough time to get to work. But it was hard to ignore a glowing stack of paper just laying there. So she picks it up and flips it to the first coupon which read: “This coupon entitles the holder to one day off from work.”
At first she was confused and a little upset that the coupons were just a joke gift, because she highly doubted her boss would accept it. But then she thought it might be worth a laugh later so she ripped it out of the booklet.
A moment later she found herself laying on the couch. And it didn’t take her long to realize that something wasn’t right. Suddenly she hears a very familiar scream coming from the bedroom. She jumps up and rushes to see what happened, only to confirm what she had expected. She was looking at herself standing in front of the dresser holding the coupon, she the catches her own reflection in the mirror, she was in Ricks body.
“What’s going on? Who are you!?” She asks, “I’m Rick! Who are you!?” he exclaimed, “So wait we’re in each other’s bodies? But how?” Rick asked taking a good look at his current body in the mirror.
“I don’t know, but I ended up on the couch after I ripped that out of the coupon book u gave me.” She says pointing to the coupon in Rick’s hand, Rick then reads the coupon, “What? A day off?” he asks
“Yeah I was frustrated and then the thing started glowing and then I ripped it out and this…” She says gesturing to her new body.
“Wait how does this give you a day… oh…” he says looking in the mirror at his female body dressed for work, he then looks up to see a smile on his former face, “NO, this is my day off and im going back to bed, then I’m going to wake up and everything will be back to normal.” He says walking back to the living room.
“I don’t think so, you have 10 minutes to get to work, so don’t forget your keys and have a good day sweetheart.” He says guiding him to the front door.
“No, I can’t do this.” He says, “Of course you can, and chances are you don’t have a choice.” She says, “Wait what do you mean?” he asks, “Well if the coupon is for a day off then it probably won’t ware off until after you do it.” She says smiling
Chills run down Ricks spin at the thought but he decides not think about it and get to work first. He rushed to the car and hits the road. Meanwhile his wife takes his body back inside and sits down on the couch
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