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the_best_sister) wrote2024-09-05 10:58 pm
the_best_sister) wrote2024-09-05 10:58 pm
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Lighthouse Cottage - Friday Evening
Outside on the picket fence of the Lighthouse Cottage, a simple sign was tacked up:
Come inside and help with IKEA construction.
Free booze!
Free food!
Way too friendly dog!
Inside, the promise was kept. If your idea of food and booze was stacks of pizza boxes and mostly cheap beer and hard liquor.
Yelena had spent most of the week fixing up the place, but the IKEA shipment had only arrived yesterday, so the furniture was still a work in progress. The walls and ceilings were freshly painted white, but the carpet, drapes, and lighting in the two-bedroom cottage were a riot of mismatched colors. It was like someone had thrown a Jackson Pollock painting into a blender with that psychedelic boat trip from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
And right in the middle of this chaotic, colorful mess was Yelena, sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by half-assembled IKEA furniture and discarded instructions. She’d been at it all day, and it showed. She’d given up on any hope of a put-together look, dressed only in a tank top and athletic shorts, her hair a tangled mess falling into her face.
The living room was mostly done, there was a dining room table standing on its own four legs, and one bed was finally put together in the bedroom. But there were still stacks of flat-pack boxes waiting to test her patience. At this point, it was just about survival.
And maybe, bribing people with enough booze to help finish the rest…
[Open to all. Up early because I might have a hectic morning. ]
Allen Wrench Party
Come inside and help with IKEA construction.
Free booze!
Free food!
Way too friendly dog!
Inside, the promise was kept. If your idea of food and booze was stacks of pizza boxes and mostly cheap beer and hard liquor.
Yelena had spent most of the week fixing up the place, but the IKEA shipment had only arrived yesterday, so the furniture was still a work in progress. The walls and ceilings were freshly painted white, but the carpet, drapes, and lighting in the two-bedroom cottage were a riot of mismatched colors. It was like someone had thrown a Jackson Pollock painting into a blender with that psychedelic boat trip from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
And right in the middle of this chaotic, colorful mess was Yelena, sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by half-assembled IKEA furniture and discarded instructions. She’d been at it all day, and it showed. She’d given up on any hope of a put-together look, dressed only in a tank top and athletic shorts, her hair a tangled mess falling into her face.
The living room was mostly done, there was a dining room table standing on its own four legs, and one bed was finally put together in the bedroom. But there were still stacks of flat-pack boxes waiting to test her patience. At this point, it was just about survival.
And maybe, bribing people with enough booze to help finish the rest…
[Open to all. Up early because I might have a hectic morning. ]
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Anthony. Please think about how crazy that sounds.
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But, either the town got together and agreed on stories to fool newbies with in advance, or he was going to have to apologize to Raiden for doubting him.
"None of those sentences made sense, not by themselves, and especially not when strung together in order," he told Tony. "What's a Waffle House?"
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"Well, that certainly sounds like...an experience." And his Aunt Muriel said he'd never learn diplomacy. Ha! "I'm from Western Mass myself. But if there are Waffle Houses there, I've never been to one."
They didn't have any in the Blackwood and they didn't sound like anywhere the cabal would have even acknowledged and that was the extent of his worldly knowledge.
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"They're a more southern thing," Tony assured him. "Sometimes it comes back here."
Those were the nice days.
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And also just furthest in general but he didn't need to sound like a total rube.
Even if he was.