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<NOBORI> Hello! This is Ingo!
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Other Handles: Wayward [anon]

Comments

[i_am_emmet]

Plus I hate how it creates a self-feeding cycle, yup. They lose their job, they lose their home, they can not find a new job because they do not have an address...

[offtracks]

Why do they need an address to get a job?

[i_am_emmet]

Because it makes employers think that they just won't up and leave overnight.

[offtracks]

Anyone can do that.

[But it's sort of just grumbling. There's really no point in arguing about this with Emmet; they're clearly in agreement about how much sense it all makes.]

[i_am_emmet]

Yup, but they feel if people have made the investment of a residence, they won't.

[A beat.]

Can you imagine how much money a billionaire has?

[offtracks]

A billion, I suppose?

[He knows about numbers!]

I cannot imagine what could possibly cost that much. I do not think I have ever spent more than a hundred at a time.

[i_am_emmet]

Nothing costs enough for that, but to put it in perspective how much more money that is why billionaires should buy a few million bikes and get over it. I would have to work 69,000 years to get that much.

[Emmet knew this factoid from a Tinkatok video!]

[offtracks]

He ought to just give it away. Without these games.

[Ingo frowns, more intentionally, at the card. He'd sort of thought that already, but especially if the man just has that much money for no reason!]

[i_am_emmet]

You would think, yup. But rich people don't experience empathy. Have a distant cousin like that.

[offtracks]

Do we?

[i_am_emmet]

Yupyup, verrry much a trust-fund Baby. Thinks people in the 'lower' [finger quotes] ranks need to work harder to get where she is. Doesn't seem to understand the safety net she has in comparison.

[offtracks]

Well, that is just rude!

[i_am_emmet]

More money than sense, yup.

[offtracks]

Hm...

[.....]

We do still have to do the bingo, though.

[i_am_emmet]

Yup, luckily my card isn't bad at all. I can just do what I normally do with you but in a park.

Can't get the hair done with you though, nope.

[offtracks]

Mmm.

[Today's one of those days where Ingo couldn't even stand to look at himself in the mirror. He can't muster any response to the jab.]

It may take two sessions anyway. We both have work now, and we are not sharing shifts this week.

[i_am_emmet]

[The lack of pepper to the teasing made Emmet move so he can bump his forehead against Ingo's own.]

I'm sad we're not.

[offtracks]

It hardly matters. It isn't as though we can just stand around and chat.

[He leans back anyway.]

[i_am_emmet]

Still nice to see you.

[offtracks]

You see me plenty. Anyway, I think they do not like having us scheduled together. Better just one monster than two.

[i_am_emmet]

So?

[Emmet questions.]

One: They should like we're hard workers. And Two: wouldn't it be smarter to schedule us together then, in case one flips out because of Fog-related chaos?

[offtracks]

We might both do it. These things sometimes seem to go by monster type, after all - like when all the Mers were drowning people. Anyway, they have no reason to trust us.

[i_am_emmet]

Yup, for sure, but some seem to like us.

[Emmet had noticed how some of the workers have started to come to both him and Ingo about issues around the station.]

[offtracks]

Attempting to curry favor is one way to try and protect oneself from monsters. If only specific ones.

[He's noticed that too! But honestly, he's been back on the job for less than a month, what other reason could there be?]

[i_am_emmet]

Do you really think Lars would suck up?

[A younger station worker who mostly sweeps, flirts with anything female and one time loudly said that the 'Fog could shove the 'lake bitch' up it.']