Trooper Station: Wednesday

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

The phones were ringing like a ringing thing today. Apparently people either saw the notice or wanted to have the bathroom stalls arrested.

"I'm sorry Ma'am but there's really no way to arrest a bathroom stall," Dale said sympathetically. "Perhaps you could just try crawling under the door?"

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[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Are you gonna give me a hard time if I kick the toilet, Cooper?" Ray asked, as he wandered in with his cup of utterly disgusting decaf.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"It's your foot detective," Dale cautioned. "I'd recommend holding off on the violence. You heard the mayor's announcement earlier this week."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

Ray rolled his eyes, bringing the coffee up to his mouth. "Mayor-- ugh-- Schmayor. If you can't kick an inanimate object in the head anymore, what's left?"

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well your options are either to sing to the stalls or crawl underneath the door," Dale suggested. "I don't think kicking will do anything but make matters worse."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Have you heard my singing voice? They do not want me singing," Ray replied, waving his coffee cup around. "They can open up or taste my foot."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well, let's put it to the test, shall we?" Dale said with a smirk.

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Watch me," Ray informed him, and stomped off.

A couple minutes later, he came back with his hair soaking wet.

"Okay, note to people: angry toilets are vicious."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale did his best to stifle a laugh. "So I take it that your actions were not received well?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"I, um, slipped," he muttered, mostly under his breath. "It don't matter. What've we got?"

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Mostly the usual phone calls," Dale said grinning at Ray. "Though it's my day to man the phone. However if you want to jump in..."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Nah, you, uh... look like you've got it handled." The phones were worse than the freaking paperwork in this town. "You know, ordinary kinda week, machines gone down the crapper, nothing fancy."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Certainly isn't as busy as all the holiday strangeness we had last month," Dale admitted. "I'm just happy I have enough suits to last me all week."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I don't wash a lot of shirts," Ray admitted, for an answer, and leaned against a desk. "Lucky me."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I could loan you a few dress shirts," Dale offered. "I have a spare in my desk."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"...You keep shirts in your desk? What, you live here now?" Shut up, sometimes it was hard to remember Coop was supposed to be Sheriff.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Not at all," Dale said cheerfully. "There have been occasions where I might spill on my shirt so I have a spare in my desk just in case I need it."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Huh," Ray said, eloquently. It featured about the same intonation as the word freak. "Well, uh, good on you, fightin' stains."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"There's nothing wrong with keeping up a clean professional image," Dale said trying to explain himself. "And if we ever have an all-nighter here at the station at least I have something to change into."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm gonna stick to not washing my shirts."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"Never a dull moment, eh, Coop?" Daisy asked, up from her desk to get a refill on her tea (best idea ever for a week like this, really, that switch to tea). Though, at the end-all, be-all, she was just glad that nothing so far had happened with the stoves and ovens around the island. She'd feel a bit personally responsible for that one.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well we're getting more than that one caller with the short term memory issue today," Dale smirked. "So those stalls must be doing something right."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"I do worry about what the next thing to go might be," Daisy said, thinking that she wouldn't mind too terribly if it were the phones, but then scolded herself because that wasn't a very cop-like thing to think.