Turtle & Canary; Monday [05/19].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was frowning a little when she came into the store, although she wasn't terribly surprised. According to the internet, today wasn't very great for days to choose to celebrate, so she knew she was going to be dealing with something less than stellar when she came into the store that morning. She should have known that World IBD Day was absolutely what Apu would lean into.

And she supposed pamphlets and information about it was nice, even if she felt that was more trained toward the clinic, and, okay, food that were better for someone dealing with it being featured and marked down was nice, too, but once he started bringing in bathroom accessories.

"I just don't know, Apu," Summer said. "This all seems like kind of a shitty idea."

And now Apu was offended.

"Okay!" she allowed. "Maybe it was a bad choice of words! So sue me."

She might be worried he would actually consider it, but, as far as she knew, there was no National Lawsuit Day. And her opinions on this matter would be only justified once she saw one of the Squishy flavors for the day.

Today's Squishy Flavors
Devils Food Cake
Coconut
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

With apologies.

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[magnificent_bitch_face]

Percy only paused a moment to look at the pamphlets on the counter, he raised his eyebrow in curiosity but decided in the end to not address anything involving bowels so close to food in this establishment.

"Hello Summer, I hope this day is treating you well," he said taking out the ruined smartphone he had shown her the other week, complete with a reforged case that did nothing to help the damage already done. It made a very loud thunk when placed on the counter.

"I have come to replace my smartphone. And I'm guessing that a trade in is out of the question."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I mean," said Summer, lifting her own eyebrow at that thunk before sliding the phone closer for a better look at what exactly he'd done to it even further, "nothing is completely out of the question, but I think you'll have to drive a pretty hard bargain."

Forget the fact that she was already planning on getting him a good deal on that replacement without even mentioning anything at all.

"But we should also talk protective cases while we're at it, too. Oh! And also, hi, Percy. It's treating me okay, all things considered. How are you?"

[magnificent_bitch_face]

"Oh just fine, I suppose," he said with a small smile. "Work keeps me busy and up until my phone quit working I have learned so much more about this world and its technology. Amazing what people can do if they put their minds to it. Sometimes I feel my world relies too much on magic and such to solve their problems. Then again even the smartest person has their setbacks."

He poked at his phone case with his gloved hand for emphasis. "I don't suppose you have a case that can withstand a high temperature range?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer took a moment to look at the phone, look at Percy, and then back at the phone again. "I should try to get a hold of Amaya and see if she has any good solutions," she mused. "She's the one who owned the forge, before you showed up. The titular Blackstone, if you will. I'm sure she had something, but, I mean, also, you could maybe not keep it near anvils and the forge or whatever, too. I bet that's work pretty well.

"I probably don't have anything that specific right now," she added, "but I'll look into it, see if I can special order something like that, or, barring those things, talk to my grampa. But he'd probably just bitch about dependence on archaic technology because he just shoots all his phone data into his eyeballs or something."

She then reached under thr counter and pulled out her Big Old Box of Phone Models for Clueless Newbs.

"Same model, you think? Or do you want to try something different?"

[magnificent_bitch_face]

"I would love to meet Ms. Blackstone. She clearly knows her business based on the way the forge was set up," Percy noted. "As for your grandfather I'm not sure he and I would see eye to eye if he absorbs information in a different way than I do."

He looked at the phones, musing over the choices. "I think I'd like something more advanced and fitting of my intellect. However, nothing with AI as I'd rather not deal with something that thinks it is smarter than I am."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I mean," Summer pointed out, "they all kind of come with AI now, but it's fine, you can totally disable it. Or, well, sort of disable it." She waved a dismissive hand. "Do not get me started."

She had the occasional nightmare, sometimes, of the disable AI features of her phone somehow circumnavigating it entirely and...look, there was trauma there. Relationship trauma. She'd rather not have to throw her phone into the ocean and blow it up because it had become a weird AI romantic partner with homicidal tendencies. Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt.

"This one," she said, pointing one out, "is the most recent model, so that's probably not a bad place to start, probably. I have it both smaller and larger, obviously a few different colors but if you're getting a mega protection case that probably doesn't matter too much."

[magnificent_bitch_face]

“Well, size is hardly important to me,” Percy said picking up the smaller model. “At least in smartphones. Calibers are another thing entirely. This shall do and I’m sure I can find some case in my family’s colors.”

[stykera]

Hopefully Summer hadn't left the store yet but even if she had her phone would have gone with her so she'd get the text containing a photo of the words 'pickle tiramisu' followed by a lot of question marks.

[somethingwithturquoise]

It had been on TikTok, so of course Summer already knew about it (her TiKTok these days were not for the faint of heart or stomach), but the fact that the picture was coming from Stark and appeared to be a specials board meant that he was in the actual vicinity of what was on that board.

omg where r u rn??? r u getting some???

[stykera]

pizza planet Raiden made it

Texting was easier than talking. Less awkward at least.

do you want some

[somethingwithturquoise]

Thank you, Raiden, for existing on this same plane as Summer at this same time.

yes

That answer was also easy.

i want to get super high and fuck that up so bad and have so many regrets about it in the morning

Have fun at the gym and at paintball tomorrow, Future Summer! You dumb bitch!

[stykera]

Stark typed and erased a few things before settling on

would you like company

[somethingwithturquoise]

u will have to eat some 2 u know

Summer figured that Stark did know that, yes, but it was just polite to ensure everyone on board knew the price of admission.

[stykera]

I know

He knew how this worked. Or thought he did.

I'll bring pickle pizza too?

[somethingwithturquoise]

should I start working on some pickle shots 2 while we're at it?

Sure, Summer! Adding alcohol to this perfect pickle plan was a great idea!

[stykera]

if you like or you can save them for wednesday

What could possibly go wrong with this plan?

[somethingwithturquoise]

probably not for wed. I have a feeling after tonight I am not going to want to see pickled again for a while

So, basically: fuck you Future Summer, but Future Future Summer? Present Summer had your back.

[stykera]

ok see you soon? With pizza and pickle triamisu

They would both have some regrets later.

[somethingwithturquoise]

see u soon! 🍕🍕🥒

And hey hey! What a blessing in disguise that all that Pepto Bismol was on sale today after all!