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Tweak says, "I WILL NEVER STOP THE TORTURE!"

Dae Nahm (graywindblows) wrote in light_of_may,
@ 2010-12-03 13:17:00

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2009-08-04, diana

Working at the car -errr, laundry-wash
Who: Dae, Piccolo (NPC) and **OPEN**
Where: Laund-o-Suds
When: Midday

You know, this is pretty boring.

The thought cut through Dae's reading. Usually it was pretty hard to do that but he still wasn't used to having someone in there other than himself. Piccolo's voice was pretty noticeable too since it sounded nothing like his or anyone else's that he knew. So he lifted his eyes from the book, an old and well-worn copy of the Socratic Dialogues and focused in on the bowl with the lily pad where his familiar was perched. "It's not boring," he countered. Dae didn't believe in being bored. Probably because it never actually happened for him. Instead he'd play with the wind or read a book or close up early and go home to play with Zoey. Except he'd closed early the past three nights and had a feeling that a fourth would just get him some sort of a lecture from Anya about responsibility. Wasn't his fault that it was boring. Opening a new laundromat wasn't exactly a big thing anywhere and it wasn't like people were flooding in to use the machines or have their dry cleaning done. The rain probably wasn't helping.

It's boring when you're a frog. I'm hungry too.

"There was a fly buzzing around earlier. Eat that." Dae gave a vague wave, already turned back to his book.

That was yesterday, Dae.

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airspriestess
2010-12-05 09:38 pm UTC (link)

Laundry. It wasn't something that Diana had ever needed to worry about when she was living at the temple. Or even while she was traveling because it was just the sort of thing that Barnabas took care of. But with Barnabas incapacitated as he was and none of the children knowing what to make of the situation, Diana took it upon herself to do. After all, she was the mother and she could look after her family just fine, thank you. Even if she didn't know exactly what she was doing. But after asking around she'd finally discovered that there were places to do laundry. There were also machines you could buy but she didn't want to do that. More confusion with money and the things that made it work and all of that. She wasn't ready to do that but there were clothes that needed washing and so she'd taken them to this place. Laund-o-Suds. Were they all called that? It seemed a terribly ridiculous thing to name a place.

Pushing the door open with a breath of air, Diana stepped in along with the bag of clothes that was (for lack of a better term) floating behind her. As though she'd have carried it all that way! "Excuse me," she said when she spotted a man reading a book. For whatever reason there was a frog in a bowl next to him. Businesses didn't usually have frogs on the front desk did they? This world was so, so very strange. Easier when they had people with the ability to specialize in cleaning things. Maid, yes, that was what they were. Maybe they needed to have one of those? "I have these clothes that need to be cleaned. That's what this establishment is, correct?" Hey, she even remembered to speak in English, good for her.

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graywindblows
2010-12-17 10:59 pm UTC (link)

Guess what I hear?

Piccolo interrupted Dae's thoughts a moment before the door opened with its trademark jingle. Dae wasn't really planning on paying attention to them. Most of the people who came in knew what they were doing for one and for two he just didn't excel at paying attention to pretty much anything. Though right then it seemed really likely because this woman was dressed like no one he'd ever seen, and he'd grown up in a very Korean family who liked their traditional wear. And then there was the part where her laundry bag was floating along behind her. Dae could feel the tug of the wind that was causing it. Air elemental like him then. "Yeah," he replied, sliding his finger onto his current page so that when the book closed he wouldn't lose it. "Washers and dryers are right over there-" he pointed "-and the change machine is too. The big black thing with the dollar signs on it. If you don't have detergent there's the machine for buying the stuff.

D'you think that she knows how to do the laundry? Dae shook his head. But he sort of wanted to see her try.

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airspriestess
2010-12-18 10:34 pm UTC (link)

Diana didn't bring Breeze places with her. Mostly because the owl was very large and caught attention she didn't want. But also because the owl thought that she knew more about the modern world than her elemental and took far too much delight in point out how this or that worked, why it didn't, etc. etc. It got annoying, basically. Sort of like when Barnabas was correcting her. Though having it pointed out to her by a complete stranger was really not all that much better to his way of thinking.

"Oh," she muttered, glancing towards where he was pointing. Those things were for washing clothes? Now what was wrong with a good clear stream, soap, rocks and a clothesline? Surely she had seen several clotheslines while they were traveling. Not many people out washing their laundry in fresh flowing water but that was the way it was supposed to be. These things looked more complicated than they had any right to be, but Diana was not about to say that so she went over to the machines. Letting her bag settle down by one of the larger 'washers' she fumbled in her pockets for the folded up money that Barnabas had insisted that she needed to have with her. Muttering under her breath, and having forgotten that there was anyone else in the area, Diana smoothed the bills out and gave them to the change machine, nearly going through the roof when it spit out the smaller, metal coins that she knew to be currency as well.

She was much more careful with the machine that held 'detergent'. But it only dropped out a box filled with powdery stuff. Making a face at the scent of it, Diana nonetheless added some of it in with the first load of clothes and closed it, picked the settings without an idea what she was doing and fed it some of the change. There was a loud whooshing noise and, startled, she lifted the lid to find water pouring in. Letting it close again she stepped back and just stood blinking. How was this better than a stream again?

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graywindblows
2010-12-19 11:08 pm UTC (link)

She doesn't have a clue of what she's doing. Dae? Dae!

"Hmm, what?" Dae glanced back up from his book, having returned to reading, only to find that his frog was right. Whoever this lady was with her oddly out-of-date clothes she didn't know what she was doing. Yeah, she'd gotten the washer started but she was looking at it like she'd never seen one before. Dae couldn't believe that someone could be alive in this day and age without knowing what a washer was. Unless they were some rich snooty person who had servants to do that sort of thing. But people like that wouldn't set foot into his business ever. They'd send someone else to do it for them. So why didn't this woman know how to do laundry? She was old enough to have kids herself. Offer to help her, Piccolo suggested in a helpful tone. It'd be nice of you to do and you'd want someone to help your mom if she was having trouble. True, he would. And do unto others...

"Excuse me," Dae said in a polite tone as he stepped out from behind the counter and moved over into the generalized area. "Do you need any help?"

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