How to be a hired gun/merc - Monday, Period 3

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Anyone walking into the classroom would find Jayne dressed in a frilly dress straight from the Edwardian style and a fancy floral hat.

Also? Combat boots.

They would also find that the entire classroom had been shifted around so that everyone would be setting at table set for a tea party.

Needless to say, anyone looking at Jayne's hand would find a gremlin bite mark.

"Well, HELLLLLLOOOOOOOO!" Jayne exclaimed happily and in a bad English accent. "My name is Ingrid V. Haversham and welcome to your etiquette class!"

Yep. It was going to be one of those classes.

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Lecture & Class Exercise

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"Everyone please sit," Jayne said politely and in a forced flutey English voice. "Have some tea and finger sandwiches! They are quite delightful and completely poison free."

He then got up and began to serve tea and itty bitty sandwiches to the class. "Today we are going to talk about responsible behavior. Each and every one of us is responsible for our own actions and manners. Even in a delicate situation where another person my disagree with our own beliefs or opinions."

He then sat down and took a sip of tea, with his pinky politely extended of course. He let out a sigh of contentment. "Mmm. Wonderful tea!"

He then cleared his throat before continuing.

"When these types of situations occur, one should always be respectful. One should never use foul language or inaccurate slurs to demean one's character. One should also never threaten another person as that is a horrible thing. Why should one threaten death or poisoned tea merely because someone else didn't like what you say? RIDICULOUS!"

Jayne slammed his hand down on the table making the teacups jump a tad causing the dishes to clatter. "Oh, my," Jayne said fanning himself as he giggled in a high pitched tone. "Goodness! I did not mean to get so aggravated by this subject."

He picked up his cup of tea and took a sip. He let out a happy sigh. Clearly the tea was a wondrful thing.

"Now I would like to go around the room where each of you can tell me how to politely deal with someone who does not agree with you. And please enjoy some finger sandwiches which are still not poisonous at all."

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Raven was eyeing those tea sandwiches suspiciously. "I think the main thing is to keep a friendly, polite smile while you thoroughly and completely thrash their incorrect opinion." Not that she was any good at either of those things, necessarily, but she'd met some women who were and they were amazing. "Though if their opinion is really gross and offensive, I don't really know if you need to be polite about it at all."

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[giveherahand]

Mara wasn't buying a woooord of this. And she wasn't eating those sandwiches.

She was looking Jayne over for a gremlin bite, though.