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Multidimensional Economics; Friday, First Period [10/09].

"Good morning, everyone!" Summer greeted the class eagerly as they met in the Danger Shop yet again, although it was the Danger Shop running her Absolutely Normal Classroom sim because that would never not be hilarious to her, even more so when she could have run an actual simulation for what they were doing that day, but decided not to.

Look, sometimes, you just had to make your own entertainment.

"So, today's class is actually inspired by recent events," she gave a small nod to Eleanor ~~assuming she was there~~, "and we're going to tap a little bit into some creativity, because today we're talking about returns and how to handle them, and while I thought we could run a good sim of some aliens in dead-end customer service jobs who want absolutely nothing to do with your bullshit, that's pretty much what every day life is like, anyway, and I thought it would be way more fun if we each tried to take turns in both roles with each other and do a little role-playing with it."

Because she'd learned very quickly in this class that there was no way even she could program aliens as entertaining as this handful of students bouncing off of each other.

"So here's the deal: take some turns as both customer and customer service rep, and work against each other to figure something out. The customer will approach the rep with a product and complaint of your own imagining and see if you can't convince the rep to process the return. Reps, feel free to be as lenient or as stubborn about it as you'd like. Everywhere has its own policies for this sort of thing, right? So we'll just see where it goes!

"Oh! And one last thing. I am totally going to be that teacher that gives you an assignment for the break week, but it's extremely relevent to the class and it's not really, like, a normal assignment that's actually work. But, for those of you who are going, we'll be going to a different continent next week, so, while it's a little bit smaller potatoes than multidimensional, there's definitely some economic considerations going to be at play here. And my mission to you all, if you choose to accept it, is to make sure to find at least one really interesting or really bizarre or just really different from what you would normally find where you're from souvenier to bring back with you that we'll discuss in next next Friday's class. I will totally even reimburse you for it up to a certain dollar amount." Because, yeah, she had some money she was still trying to burn through from her Chopped win, but she wasn't about to burn through that much. "So basically: buy something weird next week on my dime so we can do a trip-based show-and-tell. Not too bad, right?

"And with that said," she tossed a smile around the fake classroom, "let's tap into some of our inner Karens and try to return some crap for ridiculous reasons."

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Right. So this should be easy.

"I'd like to return these please," Eleanor said putting a pair of broken sunglasses in front of Troy. "I don't have a receipt. I don't even think I bought these here but if you give me a $20 refund I'll flash you my boobs."

It should be noted this did not handwavily work on the Cheese Panda or Apu.

"Sold," said Troy, immediately, but, in the time between that and Summer's facepalm, something in Troy's head that wasn't a part of the lizard brain sparked.

"Wait," he said, eyes narrowing a little with process of thinking, "no. I'm supposed to make it difficult for you..."

Although now he was just confused and maybe a little worried about how the class seemed to set him up for things he'd regret later. Or, like, that this was some sort of test, or something...

Why was economics so hard?

"Too late."

Eleanor lifted up her t-shirt, gave the girls a good time to breathe and then dropped the shirt again.

"Pay up, buttercup."

Next time you get a monkey, Troy, you can give it a better name.

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Somehow, unfortunately, 'Pixelated Boobs' didn't quite have the same ring to it.

Because that was, much to his disappointment, exactly what Troy was getting.

"Oh, come on!"

You were supposed to be his friend, Summer! Or at least his radio buddy!

Nope. Sorry, Troy. They were in the classroom. Teacher first.

"And that," said Summer, who definitely made sure to slap on a nice censor protocol on the simulation the moment she realized what was going down, "is why we use the Danger Shop classroom.

"For the record!" she then felt compelled to announce. This class? Was definitely a learning experience for both the students and the teacher this semester. "These are supposed to be exchanges of pretend goods and services. Pretend."

But this was definitely fitting her expectation for today's class being entertaining.

And she wasn't going to tell Troy to not be gross or Eleanor to keep her shirt down, because this class was all about exploring some of the wider boundaries of the free market and she believed that such exchanges did have the potential to be empowering weren't strictly exploitive, but she was definitely giving them both a look that suggested that maybe they at least think about not being gross and keeping their shirts down.

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"But I still win right?" Eleanor said looking down her own shirt after that happened just to make sure everything was still where it was supposed to be. "He agreed right off the bat so-"

She gave a smirk to "Butt Soup"

"-clearly the customer is always right."

"Yeaaahhhh," said Troy, slowly, feeling like maybe he shouldn't be looking at Eleanor right now but kind of finding it hard not to, but he was trying? Sort of? "I think if that had actually worked out, that would have been a win-win on both sides of this situation? So I don't really see what the problem is."

"Whatever Disco Spider," Eleanor said rolling her eyes. "I won. Okay. Your turn."

She did a drum roll on her desk with her hands.

"Give it your best shot. Try and return something."

Troy considered Eleanor for a moment, glanced over at Summer in the hopes that her newfound judginess was distracted by another student, and then back to Eleanor.

"Yeah," he said, picking up the broken sunglasses. "I bought these? And then they broke. So I'd like to return them. I'm okay with not getting money back, though. I'll take a flash of boobs." Another look toward their teacher, before his gaze leveled back to Eleanor pointedly. "But, like, after class."

Didn't they both have a class to go to after this one? What was that class again? Hmmm...

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"Um, I'm sorry," Eleanor said with a fake apologetic tone. "But these sunglasses are out of their warranty period and there doesn't appear to be a service contract on them either. Perhaps if you hadn't spent all your shrimp flavored Pringles on fly ice cream you wouldn't be having this problem."

So many missed opportunities, Troy. So many.

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He was still learning! And Econ was really hard!

"Uhhhh," said Troy, "I think you might need to check your records again, because I definitely got the extended warranty on them. I remember because it cost me one of those weird plumbus things."

See? He was learning! Kind of.

"Hold on while I double check."

Eleanor just sat there looking at her nails for a moment. There was no checking.

"I'm sorry, what name was that under? Was it Butt Soup or Disco Spider?"

"Actually?" said Troy, as if it was the most obvious thing and like everyone could totally keep his multitude of monikers straight. "It's under T-Bone."

"Of course it is," Eleanor said in a polite tone that could be confused with impolite if this were a customer service situation. "One moment please."

She put up her hand and turned to Summer as if she had just put Troy on hold.

"Summer? Did I tell you what my boyfriend did last night? I mean I was drunk but the things that man does to me? Hooo. Anyway, this guy is calling himself T-Bone. Isn't that ridiculous? Who puts a service contract under the name T-Bone. What a dingus, am I right?"

Putting down her hand she turned and gave Troy a large fake smile. "So, I found your contract Mr. T-Bone. As per the terms of the service contract you'll need to have a repair service come out to review your sunglasses' condition in order to determine if a repair is needed before you can even think about seeing my boobs again."

Troy was looking pretty doubtful about this supposed boyfriend business, and he was also taking a moment to consider of he'd have better luck with this elsewhere. And even though you'd think his chances might be good considering he was somehow only now realizing he was the only guy in this class...

...yeah, those were going to be some hard sales...

So...

"How long would that take?"

Aww. Poor Troy. Eleanor gave him a sympathetic grin.

"Well we can forgo the service call however you're going to have to meet me in the janitor's for a full refund."

Yep. She's throwing him a t-bone.

To his credit, Troy didn't actually say 'yes!' with his little victory fist pump at his side, but it was a pretty near thing.

And then he went right back into the character he really hadn't been playing through this whole thing, when he said, very seriously, "As a customer, I find those terms acceptable and legit."

"And thank you for coming to my customer service. After the refund you will be getting a survey and- Eh. Fork it. Let's get to the Janitor's closet before the next class."

Those surveys were bullshirt anyway.

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