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All and Sundries -- Wednesday 1/17

Turtle frowned at the broken Squishy machine. No. Not frowned. Glared, as though willing it to work again. She was getting pretty sick of having to explain to Apu that she had no technical ability whatsoever, and, if she went tinkering near it, it was almost a guarantee that she'd probably make it worse. Numbers she could fix. Machines, not so much.

But having it down was going to cut an estimated thirty four point seven percent loss in profits. That Squishy machine was bringing in a lot of money, so she promised, after checking a few digits, to stop in at Sparky's and see if anyone could come have a look at it. It worked out that, while the money to fix it could set them back a little, it was nothing comparied to where they'd be if they left it down.

She hoped Jane wouldn't mind, but Turtle figured, she was partner. She could make decisions like this, right?

Today's Squishy Flavors: Defunct, Gerbroken, Red.

All and Sundries is open.

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Especially while Turtle's in class or flitting off to Sparky's maybe.

While she's crunching numbers, like a Godzilla of Accounting.

Teddy entered the shop, a small bag of tools under his arm ~~and a pocket full of dreams~~. "Turtle?"

Turtle looked up from her work. "Oh, hey, Teddy," she smiled. "There's the machine, if you wanna have a look." She both nodded and swished her pen in the general direction.

Teddy went to the squishie machine and couldn't help but wonder if maybe this wasn't the best idea. He had never fixed a squishie machine before, heck, he'd never really had more than three squishies in his life.

"How did it get broken?" He asked, unpacking his tools.

"Not a clue," Turtle said, elbow on the counter as she leaned her chin in her hand. "I'm pretty sure it happened on Monday, though, because it was broken when I ~~handwavily~~ came in to get one."

And that was about the time Teddy finally noticed all the knife marks on the machine. "Was there a fight in the store?" He asked, pointing toward the slashes on the side of the machine.

"Huh?" Turtle asked, then tilted her head as she peered over at the slashes. And blinked. "Huh."

How the heck did she fail to notice huge gashes in the machine?

"I...guess there was?"

Teddy took the cover off just to confirm his suspicions that the machine was beyond repair. Wow those knife marks went deep.

He looked over at Turtle. "Um, I don't think I can fix this without replacing, well, everything."

Turtle's nose wrinkled. "I guess not, huh? You guys would probably be the ones to talk to about getting it replaced, right?" She sighed. "Guess I'll talk to Jane about what we want to do about it."

Ugh! They were losing so much money right now!

Nodding, Teddy put the cover back on because it just looked better that way. Less corpse-like. "Have Jane call my boss, Agatha. She can tell you how much it would cost to get one of these things built."

Turtle nodded. "Will do. Thanks for having a look at it, Teddy."

And then she looked at him thoughtfully for a moment. "Didn't you say something about flowers earlier?"

"Yeah," Teddy said, packing up his tools. "I'm stopping by the clinic to check in on someone after this and I promised to bring flowers."

"Well, then," Turtle immediately started leading Teddy to the right spot in the store. "As you can see, we offer a wide variety of flower arrangements. We can even throw in those little 'Get Well Soon' balloons."

"Just flowers," Teddy said, looking a little out of his depth. "Um, which one do you think would look nice?"

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Turtle made a thoughtful hum as she glanced over the selection, buying her time so he didn't realize that she went for the most expensive one...and, interestingly, the most gaudy and ugliest collection of flowers there. "I think this one would look very nice."

Teddy looked at it. "Um, if that's what you think is best..." He said, reaching into his pocket to get some money.

"Yup, definately the best," Turtle nodded firmly. Man. That had to be the ugliest arangement she'd ever seen...Boys were so clueless.

Don't try the red. Seriously.

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