Caritas; Wednesday [09/08].

[somethingwithturquoise]

You know, it was bad enough having to deal with Apu's weird obsession with National Fake Holidays with the store, but now Summer was dealing with something similiar in her actual life, and she'd finally caved. Her dad had not stopped talking and/or texting her about National Honey Month for a week now, and to prevent having to deal with it literally all month, especially when she was kind of busy right now trying to plan, like, anniversary stuff, she acknowledged that it was National Honey Month, promised to do a promotion at the store with his honey, agreed to be dragged to some Honey Festival at some point during the month, and, to hopefully put an end to this once and for all, even guaranteed a thematic jello presention for both the bar and her Instagram to promote her jello shot catering.

She felt like doing something like this was a little risky in Fandom, because if this wasn't a big fat invitation to some weird bee-related incidents, then she didn't know what was, but honestly? If it got her dad to shut up about National Honey Month, it would all be worth it.

So she did her thing, got it set up, and then tried very hard to not just be on her phone trying to make plans for this weekend in between customers and sort of kind of failed, like, big time, but, um, hi, anniversary stuff, kiiiiind of a big deal!

Wednesday Jello Shot Specials!

Featuring Jerry's Own Honey!
In celebration of National Honey Month

First One Free with a Karaoke Song!

Apple & Honey
Hot Lil' Honey
Honey Bourbon & Peach Smash
Honey Lemonade

Summer frowned a little at the board, wondering why it seemed like her ampersands looked particularly noticable, but then decided not to think much of it.

Caritas is open!

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The Stage - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Sing for your jello! Or just sing because it's fun!

The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Which, so far, does seem free of bees, and hopefully it stays that way!

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[stykera]

Unlike last week, Stark did not roll into Caritas. He just walked in and up to the bar to greet Summer.

"These all sound better than last week's," he said, nodding at the specials board. "Hello, Summer."

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

That was kind of a shame. Stark had look pretty cool rolling in on a skateboard, if you asked Summer. But she was back to being wingless, herself, so they'd both gone a bit down in the coolness fact.

But it was still nice to see him, wheels or not, and she smiled back with her nod, clearing the slight phone-research haze that had settled in behind her eyes. "Hey, Stark," she said, glancing over at the board a little herself to observe her own handiwork. "I figured they might be a little more up your alley. Which ones sound best?"

Because of course he'd be getting some, riiight?

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[stykera]

Stark had looked pretty cool, when he wasn't wiping out on staircases. But the scrapes and bruises were pretty much gone now! And of course Summer had looked fabulous with her wings.

"The apple and the lemonade?" They were the cutest ones, clearly.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[1000yearstoolate]

"So there's a honey theme tonight?" Seivarden said, stating the obvious. At least all of them seemed normal.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Woooooow," said Summer, who couldn't help herself, "you figured it out! And here I was trying to be so subtle about it, toooooooo..."

The sarcasm ended with a small smirk.

"Just for decoding the super secret and not at all obvious details of my very subtle theme....I think you should get one on the house."

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[1000yearstoolate]

"I'm flattered," Seivarden grinned. "How are you Summer?"

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie wasn't in until later in the evening, and she was fairly exhausted-looking when she did show. She had just gotten off work in New York with the whole kidnapped-children thing -- all hostages returned, all schoolbuses unharmed -- and while part of her had wanted to just collapse in her big sparkly bed back in the tower, she also wanted to be back in Fandom in case Diego came home.

But given that she didn't have any texts or anything and he hadn't been at the apartment when she'd stopped to throw her bag in the bedroom, she figured she could get in some bestie time. And, let's be honest, some much-needed shot time, too.

"Who's Jerry?" she wondered, eyeing the specials as she slid onto a barstool. "I'm doing half of these, just not sure which half yet." But two shots seemed like a good compromise between 'I need a drink' and 'I need to be alert in case my boyfriend has another unprecedentedly-weird emergency.'

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had to give Annie a disapproving little pout at the idea of only half, but she also sometimes saw that as a challenge to totally change someone's mind, even if she would probably be stymied by, you know, legit reasons, or whatever.

But the pout turned into a grave lift of her chin. "Choose wisely, then " she warned her, before dropping the serious tone and pointing out, "Or don't choose at all and seriously just do all four."

Like. She totally wouldn't say it to her face, but she looked like she could use all four.

Then Summer sighed and shook her head at the first part of the specials board in particular. "And Jerry's my dad," she explained, sounding almost as if she was contractually obligated to do so (something Annie might be maybe a little familiar with!). "This is the honey that he makes. Well, not that he makes," an important distinction!, "but that his bees makes, and he harvests, and he's trying to sell and also exploit his much more business savvy daughter into pushing for him with the use of parental guilt and persistence.

"Also," there was a breath in there somewhere, "how's it going, Annie? You been busy?"

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Aww so they're like, artisanal," Annie teased. "But that's, like, smart of your dad. Kind of, like, capitalist, but smart." Smarter than she would have given him credit for, given the impression she had been given of Jerry up to this point!

"Let's start with the lemonade and the peach. Work my way up from the bottom." And maybe do the other half, because yeah, tired. "And yeah, I'm -- eh. I'm okay. Been super busy. Diego's kinda going through a bunch of family shit at the moment."

Which had included Diego's sister throwing Annie through the wall of a log cabin, so she was kind of feeling the effects more than your average supportive girlfriend.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[notagoose]

So Goose had learnt his lesson from last week about not drinking the night before his class, so he figured it should be safer after class was done.

“National honey month?” Goose raised an eyebrow as he stared at the sign, “that’s a thing?”

He hadn’t really followed all of the holidays that Earth had.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer just sort of lifted both of her hands in a shrug and shook her head, as if to absolve herself from any responsibility on the matter.

"Apparently?" she said. "There's a dumb holiday for pretty much everything put there, honestly, but I have never been one to turn down an easy excuse for a theme. Interested in trying any...it's Goose, right?"

Maybe if she played last week down, what with the flirting and the wings and everything, it wouldn't be a whole thing.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[notagoose]

"I don't really understand the fascination with holidays," he admitted, "didn't really grow up with them," he paused, without being long and dramatic this time, "It's Goose," he nodded in confirmation, tilting his head slightly he looked at the specials, he hadn't tried jello shots before, "what would you recommend?"

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[my_own_advocate]

"Who's Jerry?" Lucifer asked, squinting at the sign.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was starting to wonder if she should take a shot for herself every time someone asked her that tonight.

And then firmly decided that, yes, yes she should, picked up a lemonade one, sucked it down, then picked up a peach one to retroactively cover Annie's questions, and took that one, too, before answering.

"My dad," she offered. "He's super into beekeeping."

And, with that, she started setting out the shots for Lucifer as well, because obviously.

"I figured letting him talk me into this will earn me enough Good Daughter points to save myself at least a month of harrassment."

This was clearly very optimistic of her.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[weirderthanthou]

"...You know, honey lemonade actually sounds really good," Jesse observed, as she sat down on a completely random chair at the bar.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer's eyebrows went up as the generic beer she already had ready went down in front of Jesse.

"Does...that mean you want to try one?" she asked, because she was not going to just assume that expressing interest was the same as actually wanting to get one. At least definitely not in Jesse's case, at this point.

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon wondered if he should worry about how often he was going out for drinks.

Then again, Martin would be proud of him for just going out, so there was that.

He came in and slid up onto a stool. "Hello, Summer. I see the, um, wings are gone."


[one of these times i will ping in the right effing thread!]

Re: The Bar - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

It was a small town! Everyone getting together at the local watering hole on a WEEKDAY was basically required!

"They are," Summer agreed, although she seemed to be posing a little as if they were still there, because she'd kind of gotten used to it, and then shrugged. "But that's Fandom for you. It giveth wings, and then it taketh. Honestly, though, I'm kind of glad for it. They looked cool as hell, but they were hard to actually use and do you have any idea how hard it is to actually sleep comfortably with wings? Hard pass!"

Then she gave him an eager smile. "Good to see you, though, Jon," she said, because it was always reassuring when the newbs didn't go running away screaming, but, well, considering what he was dealing with before, she figured the likelihood of that was pretty low. "What can I get you?"


[[ third time's a charm!! ]]

The Lounge - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Guaranteed to be even more free of bees than the bar, so if there's bees here, that's not a good sign.

No offense meant to any bees, of course.

The Back Room - 09/08.

[somethingwithturquoise]

There's darts back here!

And maybe bees?

Hopefully no bees.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Our calander is all about pollinators, so when we turned to September and I saw that it was National Honey Month, I thought to myself, "AH, yes, what a perfect opportunity to continue to conflate one of the dumbest little details about the last season to a massive degree."

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Okay, but why *are* the ampersands in bold?

[somethingwithturquoise]

Because I'm a self-referential asshole