Fandom Post Office, December 20 (Tuesday)

[filleauloup]

If it hadn't been right at the peak of the holiday last-minute present-shipping rush, Éponine might not have minded the mistletoe so much; it didn't really bother her when she was alone in the lobby. And if customers did come in, well, there was the counter, and she had a broom, and she'd hit them with a copy of the employee handbook if she had to. (It might as well be good for something.)

But. Last minute holiday mailing rush, so the odds of being alone in the lobby today were just about nonexistent.

Mostly, she was just rooting for any pushy mistletoe to get trampled by customers, because it was too busy in here today for that nonsense anyhow. Honestly, there was enough chaos in here without people making out in line.

[OOC: My brand new pack of English muffins turned out to be moldy, so I had to throw it out and accidentally threw out the OCD with it. Open, though SP till evening!]

The Perk, Tuesday Morning

[myownface]

The island was doing that mistletoe thing again. That mistletoe thing, Sparkle remembered it vividly from a precarious situation in a stairwell back when Alec was still a part of his life, and no amount of lecturing the island on people's right to choose who the hell they kissed for themselves had apparently dissuaded it from making it tradition. But then, he supposed he wasn't surprised. This was the island with the pollen thing, after all. That pollen thing.

Either way, he'd decided that his sanest course of action was to at least get out of the vicinity of people he didn't particularly want to kiss. Not that he didn't love Atton - he did more than almost anybody, and that was the hell of it, but not like that - he just really didn't want to find himself being pestered to kiss the guy by a freaking plant.

Anyway, it was peppermint hot chocolate season at the Perk, and the mistletoe had, for the most part, kept its attention on corners of the place with more people in it than the little table by the window that Sparkle had staked out. Sure, he'd had to give the barista a quick, chaste peck on the cheek to get his drink without being tackled by a plant, but this was the price one paid for getting out of the apartment without having to, like, french-kiss one's roomie.

"You know you're considered a parasite," he informed one creeping garland of mistletoe as it slithered past. "I'm really starting to see why."

[OOC: Open for coffee or kissy, I'm easy and Sparkle's resigned to it.]

Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

There was pushy mistletoe, and Kitty had dealt with it for roughly four seconds before vanishing Tino to the stockroom because ew and no.

But hey, if you wanted a drink and an excuse to get harassed into kissing somebody, the bar was open.