fandomhigh | Sanitary Living [period 5, Tuesday]

"Hey, guys," Hannelore said, waving as everyone filed into the Danger Shop. "So okay, sometimes when you want everything organized, there's other stuff going on, all at once, right? And you get kind of flustered and you know what makes that worse? Just setting stuff aside and acting like you don't need to make sure everything goes in the right place, because then it'll just get lost and you'll get more flustered and it's just an endless cycle and it's the worst ever."

She gave a little shudder, and waved a hand at the Shop, which was made up like a coffee shop. "My friend Dora at home runs a coffee shop, and like every single day, that happens. Customers come in, Faye scares them, they drop coffee, and no one cleans it up until the end of the day. Or they come in and ask for something with syrup in it and then the syrup? Just doesn't get put back. It's horrible."

"So, uh, I want you guys to prove you can do better than that. You all get to man the counter, and I'm going to see if you can deal with customers and keep stuff neat and up to my standards the whole time, okay? Because that? Is the real world."

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"Yes, it is," Inara corrected him. "It's a type of black tea. It's grown in the Fujian province of China."

"Don't believe you," the guy decided.

"Fine," she shrugged, "be ignorant. Doesn't bother me any. You never said, is that for here or to go?"

"To go, and I'm not ignorant! You are!"

The guy was bouncing on his toes, eager for her to argue back.

Of course he wanted his tea in a paper cup. Classless barbarian. "I knew the right answer," she pointed out, opening a tea bag and dumping it into the cup, then adding water.

"'cause you made it up."

"Do you believe that everyone who knows more than you do made up the information?"

"When the answer sounds made up, yeah."

"What would sound less made up to you?"

"A word that doesn't sound stupid."

She sighed. "And you're the ultimate arbiter of what sounds stupid?"

He nodded.

"I refuse to give you this tea." Inara set the cup on the back counter. "Go find a dictionary, look up Oolong, and come back."

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