Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Kitty had had a bad day, but at least she got a little break for work.

And then she'd gone to restock something and opened the door to the stock room and had to phase through the avalanche of fruit that fell out. Why was there fruit, let alone that much? Good question!

SPECIAL
FRUITY DRINKS
OR JUST TAKE FRUIT HOME

[Open! Now in the right comm!]

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[died8yearsago]

Rosa took one look at Kitty, one look at the specials board, and felt she could sort of figure things out enough from there that her next look at Kitty had a touch of sympathy in it that you didn't even have to look too hard for.

"Could be worse," she offered. Which was something she was pretty sure no one needed to tell Kitty, really, but she was never one to pass up on a lazy conversation starter.

[throughaphase]

"It could be vegetables, which is harder to make drinks out of?" Kitty said.

[died8yearsago]

"Bloody Marys all day," Rosa mused. "But, sure, that's a good one. That's a whole can of worms," worms, Kitty. Worms could be worse, "that we don't need to open. Got any peaches back there? Fix me up a bellini?"

[throughaphase]

"Coming right up," Kitty said, grabbing a couple peaches. "Tonight we're going to have adventures with food processors oh god that's a thing I really just said."

[died8yearsago]

"Would it make you feel any better," asked Rosa, "if I were to tell you that's not the first time I've been exposed to the phrase 'adventures with food processors'? And that it's a lot less disturbing coming from you."

A lot.

Charles Boyle should be banned from all kitchen appliances forever.

[throughaphase]

"It makes me a little worried in general in a way I can't explain," Kitty answered thoughtfully.

[died8yearsago]

"That's...fair," said Rosa, after a moment to think about that one. "It's not as ominous as I made it sound." Rosa? Making something sound more dramatic than it necessarily was? Never! "If you ever get the chance to meet this guy I work with up in Brooklyn," which hopefully no one ever would, "it'll all make sense within about two seconds of getting him close to anything that even resembles food."

Resembles. Because she refused to believe half the stuff...no, most of the stuff Boyle came up with should be considered 'food.'

[throughaphase]

"Do your work friends show up for Parents Weekend?" She somehow didn't think Rosa would be inviting her home.

[died8yearsago]

You were definitely getting a look, Kitty, because what was this 'work friends' you spoke of? Those were words that did not go together.

"Not if I can help it," she said, but she knew one-hundred percent that if her 'work friends' knew about Parents Weekend, she'd have to stock up on yogurt. Especially after the Sergeant found out about...

...nope. Not even thinking about it in narrative.

"I wouldn't even want my parents showing up for Parents Weekend."

Of course, right now, that would probably not be a problem, anyway.

Which was fine.

Whatever.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan, too, was giving the specials board a once-over, and meeting it with a bit of a laugh.

"How much fruit do you figure I can eat before it goes off?"

He was going to have to get his hands on that vacuum-sealer of Jack's and freeze as many berries as he could fit in his freezer. He was already making nefarious plans for exactly that.

"If I can't clear it out, I'm sure Eliot would be happy to get at least some of it over at Luke's. Or I can haul it off to a shelter on the mainland tomorrow for you."

[throughaphase]

"I'm guessing there's about a week's shelf life?" Kitty said. "Donation is the plan for all the extra but there's so much and I'm wondering if I should introduce Lexi to solids to get rid of it."

[uncertain_dume]

"Keep some of the softer stuff and let her gum on it for a while?"

... Kanan had been reading up, since his, 'the baby is in the onesie wrong' adventure.

"I think they make little mesh things so she can gnaw the juice out of them to her heart's content."

Reading up a lot.

[throughaphase]

"You can even mush it up as baby food," Kitty added, filing those ideas away. "I'd have to look into what she could even have yet. I didn't really start thinking about it till right now for some crazy reason. I'm intrigued by the mesh thing."

There was sooooo much.

[uncertain_dume]

"They look pretty handy," Kanan admitted, pulling out his phone and poking at google until he managed to find a page about them.

... That he'd bookmarked.

Don't judge him.

"Keeps them from choking on solid bits while letting them get a taste for things that aren't milk, I guess?"

Look, he was really committed to not hecking up the babysitting gig again.

[throughaphase]

"I like that you've researched this," Kitty had to say. She had to.

[uncertain_dume]

"I'm never putting Lexi's onesie on backwards ever again," Kanan replied, solemnly.

[throughaphase]

"So you looked up baby strainers?" This was adorable.

[filleauloup]

"D'you need any help getting some of these off your hands?" asked Éponine as she came in, still smelling of Bounce dryer sheets.

[throughaphase]

"Take every single piece of fruit you want, it would make my day," Kitty told her.

[filleauloup]

"I'm hardly going to turn that down," said Éponine, who would never outgrow the instinct to go for free food. How could you in Fandom, anyway?

"Have you been well enough this week?"

[throughaphase]

"Today's been interesting-" Obviously. "-but otherwise it's fine. How about you?"

Maybe getting a whiff of dryer sheet now.

[filleauloup]

"No, I haven't been doing laundry," Éponine had to disclaim, because customers had been commenting on it all day. "We had a bit of a static cling, I think that's what it's called, issue at work today and this was the only thing I could think of to try and do anything about it. So it's been interesting for me too, you could say. I think I'd rather the fruit, though."

[throughaphase]

"I don't know, I've had to clean up a lot of squished fruit," Kitty pointed out.

[filleauloup]

"That's true, I suppose," Éponine conceded, and then immediately checked her shoes to see if she'd stepped in any fruit pulp. So far, no. "But it's at least useful for a few things instead of only being a nuisance."

[throughaphase]

"True. But I do like laundry smell," Kitty pointed out.

...Mostly. She did too much laundry these days.