Caritas; Wednesday (Daytime and After Dark); Wednesday [07/10].

[somethingwithturquoise]

You know, it was usually Tino who was the one behind the bar at Caritas doing weird stuff to maket he other bartender on shift sort of quirk their eyebrow and wonder what the heck was wrong with him, but that was because Summer Smith hadn't worked there before. And now that she was, she was definitely getting a confused look and a quirked eyebrow from her coworker as she spent a good portion of the beginning of her shift looking in various cupboards and the fridge and the ice machine, checking out supply closets and the stage, and the lounge, until Tino finally broke and asked what she was looking for.

"Bears," she explained. "Possibly a panda, but perhaps not. We got one in the cheese cooler at the store yesterday, and even though Apu acted like he'd been there before, I've never even heard of it. I mean, I spent most of last week as a weird orange furry thing obsessed with taking off people's heads; there's a good chance that whever it is this week has influenced him, too, and he's not really my usual Apu but rather some Apu from whatever bear-filled universe we're in right now."

And Tino, confused, suggested that the thing with this week was....probably the whole eerie siren followed by disturbing monsters crawling out of the ash-filled darkness and everything, and Summer scoffed.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," she said, "creepy monsters that are clearly messed-up distortions of humans based on deeply seeded psychological fears coming out in the dark. Yawn. I mean, there's been monsters before this summer, right? The dressing's different, but it's still sort of the same thing. Now bears showing up in places of businesses to harrass customers about certain products....now that's something different. That's interesting. It's possible the whole monster thing is just a distraction for the inevitable bear take-over, Tino, you don't know! I'm just trying to be proactive here and nip this in the bud if I can, but, I mean, so far, no bears here, I think we might actually be good, but, if that weren't the case, wouldn't you be glad I bothered to take the time and actually check before it was too late?"

Tino just sort of looked at Summer; Summer just looked back.

Tino was just going to go over to the other side of the bar now.

"Okay," said Summer, "just don't come crying to me when a bear breaks your arm because you won't do a shot of tequila with him!"

Wednesday Jello Shot Special!
NONE.
Because you should be staying home tonight where it's safe from monsters and/or bears!
Although it is actually really safe here...
Possibly safer than home.
So I got Apple and Honey ones!
Whatever. Just be safe, k?

She'd sort of been hoping the honey would entice the bears out of wherever they might be lurking, ready to strike.

Caritas is open! And actually completely bear free.


[[ and, of course, like yesterday, please specify in the subject when you're coming in, since doors open before alarm! ]]

Luke's, Wednesday (Daylight)

[heartinabox]

Right. So. Apparently Regina wasn't going to clear up this curse at all quickly (she was good, but even she couldn't untangle where her curse was or was not intersecting with whatever was going on with this godforsaken island). Which meant that she really was the owner of a diner, so she really did have to be at least a little bit responsible for how it was running.

She'd run a bar, a town, and even an entire kingdom. At least one of those things she'd even done well, without resorting to dark magic. How hard could a diner be?

"I don't care which one of you started what," she told the kitchen staff. Which had apparently been previously run either like a day care or a three-ring circus. "You should not be trying to fence with the sharpening steels. For heaven's sake, you're not even doing it well!" She snatched the steel from the man in the apron and pointed him at the stove. "Now get back to work before I decide to fire you all and turn this place into an automat!"

The man in the apron exchanged looks with the one in the rubber gloves. "We don't have our specials yet."

"Oh for --" Regina stalked over to the specials board.

Today's specials
Corned beef on rye
Apple pie

"Those aren't very special," the young man holding the mop said. And then turned and ran before Regina could turn around and level her glare on him.

Luke's was open.