Everyone was talking about the starships, how they had come to Earth, wondering what they wanted.

So, bored out of her mind and stuck in her cubicle in the User Interface Engineering section of her company’s Website Development Department, Linda found a post on reddit that claimed they had a number you could use to text the aliens.

She texted them, “Please take me with you!” Anything to get away from this shitty job, this shitty life, she thought. She was ready.

They texted back, “Can you code in JavaScript?”

“No!!” every fiber of her being screamed.

“Yes,” she replied.