Confidence Pill: Modern Fantasy

He fumbled his confidence right before the big interview, dropping it down the gutter outside the office building. Horrified, he watched the little pill capsule on its fob chain roll down the drain and disappear into the gutter below. "Should have gotten it on a chain around my neck like everyone else, should have--" his mind repeated the numb refrain as he watched a thousand dollars worth of medication and his best chance of succeeding at the interview vanish. He'd heard rumors that Harpsichord was not a company where people who needed meds to get by were very welcome, though, and so he'd gone with the subtler pocket fob instead of the chain around the neck that was the first thing everyone looked for.

As an odd side effect, he'd found women smiling and responding to--


Inspiration: "Meant to Live" - Switchfoot
Story Potential: Medium
Notes: Some weird hybrid of sympathetic magic and "our over-medicated society," plus whatever it is he's going to find when he goes into the sewers, and--I dunno. This is kind of a mishmash of a story start. There are things that could go somewhere if they were untangled, but I'm not sure it's worth it. Or maybe it ends up giving him supreme confidence whenever he's in sewers, like a bizarre hero origin story?