Thursday

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

The Chalkboard reads:

New Hours: 11 AM -9 PM
Please note!!
Curfew is strictly!!! enforced at Deb's.
If you're here after 9:30, you're locked in until morning,
and your housemates will get called with your location.



All lunches $4
Lunch Specials for Thursday:

Hot ham, cheese and sprouts in a pita
Tuna salad pita
Falafel pita

All lunches come with a salad and a drink.

Dessert, $1:
Brownies
Lemon bars
Cherry pie

Comments

[ac-brothers.livejournal.com]

The brothers had spent most of the morning with business on the mainland and rolled up to a stop outside the diner. It usually wasn't open this early. They were hungry and had a lot to do so not trying to scrounge up something to eat before they started to work was a bonus.

Parking their bikes, they strolled in and looked around. Finding a remote part of the diner, they flopped into the booth.

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Morning, boys, what can I get you today?" Deb's in a pretty good mood, and blows a rather cheery bubble at them.

[ac-brothers.livejournal.com]

Loz looked up from the specials menu. "What's Falafel?" he asked sounding out the word carefully.

"What's a pita?" Yazoo asked almost on top of his brother.

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Oh boys. Pita is a kind of flat bread that bakes up with a hollow center. Sliced in half they make pocket sandwiches. Falafel is garbanzo beans that are ground up and seasoned, made into balls and fried. They go in the pita with lettuce and tomato and some sauce."

[ac-brothers.livejournal.com]

She might as well have been talking in a foreign language to them and they all stared at her for a moment. Kadaj finally chimed in. "We'll have that," he said.

Yazoo looked over at Kadaj. "How does it bake with a hollow center?"

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Okay, three vegetarian pitas. And honey, I don't know how it bakes up hollow, I just know it does. What do you want to drink with that?"

[ac-brothers.livejournal.com]

Kadaj shrugged at Yazoo to indicate he had no idea either. "Water for us."

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"I'll have that right out to you. And refills." She nods at the waterglasses on the table.

In a few minutes the falafel pitas and their tab are in front of the boys and Deb is keeping a wary eye on the local biker gang as she wraps silverware.

[ac-brothers.livejournal.com]

All conversation stopped and the three ate like they were starving, hardly coming up for air. They could feel her distrustful stare on them but didn't give indication.

Finished quickly, they pushed their plates to the side and sat back in the booth, their gazes all focused outside the window.

[ac-brothers.livejournal.com]

Loz sighed heavily and noticed the ticket. He pulled out the cash with extra for the tip and placed it all at the edge of the table.

The brothers got up from the booth and left the diner.

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, boys. Come back again," Deb gives them a smile as they leave.

[yaymckay.livejournal.com]

Rodney sits down.

"I'll have the hot ham pita and the brownies with a Pepsi. There isn't any lemon in the hot ham pita, is there? I'm allergic to lemon and even just a drop could kill me."

He has an astrophysics journal to read, and mutters to himself as he scribbles notes next the bits that are obviously wrong.

[ooc: As the Offspring sing: Come out and play! (please?)]

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Hey. Don't think I've seen you in here before. No lemon in the ham pita. I'll have that right up."

Deb's cheerful today.

[yaymckay.livejournal.com]

"Uh, that would probably be because I've never been here before. I'm Rodney McKay."

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Debbie Novotny" she says as she brings the pepsi. "You new in town?"

[yaymckay.livejournal.com]

"Well, I know some people here. But, yes, I'm new in town."

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to Fandom Town," she says, setting the hot pita in front of him.

"So you got a shop or something? We business folks kind of watch out for each other."

[yaymckay.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Uh, yeah. 'Mistah Fixits' - the new fixit company."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

Somewhere between eleven-thirty and noon, D'anna wonders into Deb's and goes up the counter. She bites her lip and fidgets with her rucksack straps while she waits.

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Hi honey, what can I get you today?" It's still early, but Deb is perky.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Hi," D'anna smiles at Deb a little nervously. "I..." she pauses and blushes a little. Coming here had seemed the best solution this morning now that she was actually here, D'anna wasn't exactly sure what to do. She tried again, "I'm not exactly from around here, and it's my friend's birthday day and I read some where that cake and candles were traditional." She blushes a little more and admits, "I don't really know what I'm doing but this was the first place I thought to come."

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"You came to the right place, honey. A whole cake is $8. I think I've got a box of candles here somewhere. What you do is put as many candles as your friend's age on the cake and then light them. You sing 'happy bvirthday' and your friend blows the candles out. Then everyone has cake."

Deb boxes up a chocolate cake and finds the candles. "So, space kid or anachronism kid?"

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna smiles in relief and digs in her pocket for her wallet as she listens very carefully to Deb's instructions. Sing? Alright, I can do that. D'anna mentally cringes at the thought but is determined to do this up proper.

"Space kid, mostly, I think," she says as she hands Deb some money.

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"In that case, get someone else--someone from Earth--to start the song." Deb take her money and hands back the change. She give D'anna a smile. "There's a lot of you kids from outer space around. I think it's neat."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna nods and puts the candles in her rucksack, "This definitely the most... diverse island I've ever been to." She smiles and picks up the cake-box. "Thank you so much, ma'am. I really appreciate it."

[pflag-mom-deb.livejournal.com]

"Well tell your friend happy birthday from me, too. You're very welcome, honey."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna waves as she backs out the door, "I will," and heads off to have a look around at the other shops in town.