116. [Video/Action for Lake of Rage]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[It's been a few weeks since Heather's terse text post regarding her father-- hardly the longest period of time she's gone in between network posts, but she certainly hasn't been overly talkative.]

[When the video comes on though, it's partially obscured by a fuzzy blue blob-- the 'Gear has been placed on a clothes rack, pointed to view the next aisle over. Specifically, it's showing the back of a shaggy brown head. Henry Townshend, taciturn photography and unsuspecting victim, is slowly picking his way through a rack of swim trunks.]

[Amid the jangling of clothes-hangers, something appears in the corner of the screen.]

[That something is a pair of hands, and between them-- stretched like a rubber band-- is a Speedo.]

[There is a pregnant pause, probably for the sake of letting the network audience take it all in.]








[Then the hands let it fly.]


[Henry lets out a howl and claps a hand to his head as the speedo bounces off of it with a rubbery twang.]</sub>


HEATHER!!


_{[The camera jostles and the feed ends.]}

Comments

[foolishwren]

not familiar with that worldly phrase huh?

[adnihilum]

No.

Mind explaining what it means?

[foolishwren]

a waitress is someone who brings you food at a restaurant

and then you pay her a tip because that's what good people do


just friendly advice is all it is

[adnihilum]

I see...

Tips are appreciation money, yes?

[foolishwren]

basically

except the waitresses live off them so really you're the one paying their wage because their employers sure dont

_{[She's been a waitress before. She knows the pain.]}

[adnihilum]

That's ridiculous.

The employers not paying thing.

[foolishwren]

yeah

woohoo capitalism

[adnihilum]

Capitalism...?

[ It's something else he hasn't heard before. ]

[foolishwren]

_{[There's a pause between replies.]}



ok i am way too tired to explain the concept of capitalism

[adnihilum]

Okay.

Sounds harmful.

[foolishwren]

eh

it's a system

whether or not its broken depends on who you talk to

[adnihilum]

Well, is it? From your view?

[foolishwren]

honestly back home i had bigger things to worry about than the economy

[adnihilum]

True.

I shall not bother you with it then.

[foolishwren]

yeah

i wouldn't be able to explain it very well anyway

[adnihilum]

I see.

[ At this point he's run out of things to say. ]