039. Video/Action

[foolishwren]

_{[You know how most workplaces have those ridiculous, seemingly-arbitrary rules concerning things like cell phones and mp3 players that make sense in theory but really don't in practice? Well... turns out Johto's no different.]}

[The feed flickers on and off a few times so anyone who's looking at Heather's channel is being treated to a sort of trippy view of the ceiling of one of the many floors in the Goldenrod Department Store, jiggling around as though the 'Gear is the subject of a tug-of-war.]

[And uh... judging by the voices that are conversing in heated tones somewhere off-screen, it is.]


I'm telling you for the last time, Temp! NOOOOO PokeGear use during your shift!


It's my break! I'm not even DOING anything right now!


DON'T you backsass me, young lady! I know your type! Traveling trainers who want to make a quick buck-- you're all the SAME!


Wh-- jeez, calm down! I'm not like-- trying to question your authority or something!! Take a chill pill!


YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!


The guys on the fifth floor said they could use their 'Gears during break!


WELL. This isn't the fifth floor, IS it?!

_{[There's a pause, and then a low, almost inaudible mutter on Heather's part of:]}

Oppressive tyrant....

_{[... But apparently it wasn't inaudible enough.]}

BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD TO TIE OUR MESSAGES TO PIDGEYS AND HOPE TO DEAR ARCEUS THAT THEY DIDN'T GET EATEN BY ARBOKS ON THE WAY THERE!!


E-eep!


I HAD TO WALK TWENTY MILES TO WORK EVERY DAY IN BLINDING SNOWSTO--

<sub>[The feed clicks off.]





[A very resentful-looking Heather slumped in her seat at the cash register, smoldering darkly and glaring at the file cabinet in the staff-room where her PokeGear had been dumped, locked, and left. The words 'AND YOU CAN HAVE IT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!' were still ringing in her ears.]</sub>

[Jutting her chin out resentfully, she planted it on one palm with her scrawny elbow on the counter, plucking uncomfortably at the fairly-silly-looking Department Store clerk's uniform she had to wear. Yes, there was even a cutesy little hat and a popped collar.]


God, it's like high school all over again....






_{[ooc: Video replies will be answered later in the day when Heather gets off of work and has her PokeGear returned to her!]}

Comments

[video]

[miniworth]

_{[Edgeworth! .... is not too impressed with you, Heather. He's a bit ocd about following the rules. Let him give you a most unimpressed stare.]}

...........You brought it on yourself.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[OH MAN OF ALL THE THINGS, she doesn't need a ten-year-old lecturing her! Grrr.]}

I was on my lunch break, technically I didn't even have to be in the store.

That old bat just wanted to give me a hard time!

[video]

[miniworth]

_{[It's okay man, Edgeworth tends to lecture a bit. But they're never long, just short remarks that can be a bit biting on the ten-year-old level. He just gives her a confused look, he's not judging her... probably.]}

At least you got it back, though, right? I don't understand employee rules too much though, so I'm not really sure... maybe she was just having a bad day?

_{[Cranky ladies are cranky even on good days, Miles. Not that you're old enough to understand...]}

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[Heather just gets snippy after long days of getting her chops busted by scary old women. Mini-Edgeworth does have a point, after all!]}

No, she's always like that.

_{[Grumble grumble.]}

Yeah, I got it back. But I shouldn'tve gotten it taken in the first place, it wasn't like I was doing anything that bad.

_{[YOU WILL LEARN, LITTLE MILES. YOU WILL LEARN. Someday you will meet Oldbag.]}

[video]

[miniworth]

Maybe you shouldn't have argued back.

Back home, my classmates always got in more trouble if they refused to give up whatever the teacher was going to confiscate. There's also a law about it, as well, resisting authority and such..

<sub>[IGNORANCE IS BLISS, HEATHER.

fhsdkjfhdskfh The day we might get an Oldbag (or Gant) to join Route is the day Phoenix decides that his life OFFICIALLY SUCKS and Edgeworth causes more trouble than Larry.]</sub>

[video]

[foolishwren]

It's not my style to roll over and get their footprints all over me.

<sub>[HUFF HUFF.]

[Oldbag would be the best and worst thing ever to happen to Route.]</sub>

[video]

[miniworth]

.....Well. If you say so.

[Edgeworth doesn't understand your rebellious way of life, Heather. Let him give you a weird look.

She'll eat Edgeworth alive. Especially since he's all bite size now.]