I looked her square in the eye and said, “it is a subpoena. To show up in court. Court. A SUBPOENA.”
Just a story from years ago when I worked at the worlds largest beverage company (rhymes with croaka-croaka) that came to mind scrolling the thread.
Same manager asked me why I was in the bathroom for 7 minutes twice a week, and my answer was simply, “I had to go to the bathroom.”