Turtle and Canary, Thursday [01-10]

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka was kind of grumpy today. Even Squishies didn't make life better, because he could feel Bob staring at him.

So he opened a panel on her back, temporarily disconnected a few things, and had some small bit of revenge on both Bob and Zuko for the day.

Squishy flavors: Biscuits and Country Gravy, Blue, Red Out of order because the Fire Nation SUCKS

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Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Chat, buy things, ask why the Red doesn't seem to be working.

Re: Talk to Sokka

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was hungry. Hungry, Jack, Hungry. Munchies? SQUISHY!

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka waved and grinned. "Hey! Bag-head! Buy stuff!"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Hey! Crazy guy! Gimme squishys!" He waved. And stared at the Squishy machine. "Why's all the rum Red gone?"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Because Red is evil and bad," Sokka intoned. "Try some biscuits and gravy, it's AWESOME." He held up his own Squishy cup and shook it.

Re: Talk to Sokka

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Wait. Why's Red bad? It makes purple. And it's the color of stop lights and warning things and police sirens. Okay. That's bad. And... biscuits and gravy? In a squishy?" He bleh-ed.

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"It's the color of the Fire Nation, and other similar Bad Things, and therefore it's busted today. Really, you haven't lived 'till you try the biscuits and gravy Squishy."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I think it's safe to say I haven't lived, then," he said, giving the Squishy machine the stinkeye. "Are you sure you just didn't break it?"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka nodded, outraged. "Yes, I'm sure. I wouldn't do that to Bob."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

No Grape Judas. The one thing Sky was sure would console him was not at Turtle and Canary. And his second choice, his favorite color, red, did not even work! Sky resisted the urge to pout, and instead approached Sokka, clearing his throat.

"Er, good afternoon. Uh, may I ask why the red Squishy flavor is out of order? ... And, ah, why there's no Grape today?"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"The Red is busted because it's bad and wrong," Sokka stated. "And, uh, there's no Grape Judas because we've got Red instead today? Except Red's not working right now."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky quickly zipped his jacket up all the way, hoping Sokka hadn't noticed his red shirt. Not that he was afraid, he just didn't want to be labeled as bad because of his favorite color.

"Oh, I see. Uh, is blue any good, then?" he asked. Blue could be OK. Blue plus red made purple. And he wasn't too keen on the idea of biscuits and gravy.

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka hadn't noticed. Best to leave it like that for today.

"Blue is AWESOME," he replied. "And so is biscuits and gravy. Aside from the inherent awesometude of the color blue, I don't put non-awesome flavors in the Squishybot."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Biscuits and gravy?" Sky repeated uncertainly. "Hmm, I think I'll pass on that one for today, but I will trust your judgement on the... ah... inherent awesometude of blue. I'll take a medium, please."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka nodded and got it for him. "Try it. If it's not better than Red, I'll buy it back from you," he said.

Either the guy learned to like other-than-Red, or else Sokka got another Squishy. Win-win, really.

Re: Talk to Sokka

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"I actually haven't tried the Red yet, either," Sky replied, taking a sip. "Grape is my favorite, so that's all I've had since I got here last week. Hmm. I think Blue will fit the bill quite nicely, though; thanks for the recommendation." He handed Sokka his money (in exact change, of course). "Oh, by the way, I don't think we've met yet. I'm Sky. New student here."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was absolutely here because she had some paperwork to do in the office. Really. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was Thursday and, therefor, Sokka's day. Nope. Not at all.

"Hey, So--" Turtle stared at the the SquishyBot. "Out of Order? Sokka! What did you do to it?"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"NOTHING! Nothing! I didn't...!"

Sokka paused, looked at Turtle, sighed, and shrugged.

"She had to be taught a lesson," he mumbled. "Her an' Zuko."

Re: Talk to Sokka

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"What," Turtle emphasized, wondering if she should just be glad it was a technical malfunction instead of Bad Red again or if she should be genuinely annoyed, "are you talking about?"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka looked at her with big, pleading eyes. "Okay, see, Bob doesn't like me, so I needed to teach her a lesson, right? And Red is the color of the Fire Nation, so... Look, it seemed like a good idea this morning!!! I can fix it!!! Please don't fire me!!!"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"You can't just cut productivity based on a vendetta, Sokka!" Turtle said, desperately. "By depriving the customers of a third option, especially one of the popular, consistent ones, you're like...you might as well close down, like, a third of the store and be all, 'okay, folks, sorry, no shopping here today!' So, yes, fix it, please! And no more doing things like that unless it's absolutely necessary!"

She threw in a slightly pouty look at the end of that schpiel for good measure.

Re: Talk to Sokka

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Sorry! Sorry!"

She wasn't going to fire him. This was good.

Sokka ran to Bob, opened the panel, and fiddled with things again. The tumbler of Red starting spinning again, and began to freeze.

"Never again! I promise!"

Re: Talk to Sokka

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle watched Sokka carefully as he turned the Red back on, arms crossed over her chest. Only when she got an assuring glance from the robot eyes of the SquishyBot did she allow herself to nod slightly. "Good. So. Other than attempting to drop my sales, Sokka, how've things gone today?"

Mod Apu

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Who is just itching to fix the Squishybot.

OOC

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Selling end-of-world insurance.