How To Get By In A Hostile World, Wednesday

[suitably_heroic]

Wonder upon wonders, Atton was here on time today, supporting ten days' worth of stubble and a black Jedi tunic. He'd told everyone to come to the Danger Shop - which was outfitted like a giant grocery store. Through the doors to his left was a kitchen.

He was sitting on the checkout counter. Of course he was.

"On our second week, I already had some of you guys trying to deal with the five credits-- bucks situation," he said. "This week, you get ten. Congratulations. Except your next paycheck doesn't come in for another six days, and you do need to eat. So." He spread his arms. "Go shopping! Then go next door and figure out how to use your ten dollars worth of shopping to cook something edible that leaves enough leftovers to help you survive for another day. Maybe two. Have fun."

That might've been the driest 'have fun' ever uttered between these walls.

Comments

Re: Shop!

[myownface]

Easy. So freaking easy. Sparkle could live on pretty much anything. He was going to skip the instant ramen - no point going that cheap - but a box of Kraft Dinner would last him two meals, especially if he padded it with some frozen mixed vegetables, and milk and butter were actually kind of optional if you didn't mind the cheese being roughly the consistency of glue.

So, two bucks for the mixed frozen veggies, and then a buck for each box of macaroni... He could get five of those and still have change left over for later in case he wanted to get fancy with a small bottle of ketchup. Sweet.