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002 Audio - The One Where Mike Tries To Barter

So...okay. Here's the thing. I can live frugal. I'm good at living frugal. There are fewer people out there who can dumpster dive as efficiently as I can. Trust me, my stone soup? Is amazing. I can make a Reclaimed Tuna Casserole Surprise that will knock your socks off.

As awesome as I am, even I can't make something from literally nothing, which is kind of what I've got at the moment. I say kind of because I have a whole bunch of little pots of home-made Floating Fruit preserves, jams, and jellies, and now that I'm officially out of money, I'm looking to trade them for...anything edible that isn't floating fruit. I've had my fill, thanks.

So, anyone out there interesting in jam for say...chocolate?
Or jam for bread?
Or jam for...seriously, anything.

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Excellent.

So...for the sake of a purely hypothetical argument, what kind of chocolate are we talking about here?

Mostly just chocolate bars. They're the cheapest and easiest to get around here.

Seriously? How the heck did I miss that they actually just...sell chocolate?

There's not a lot of it now, because of the rations. Like, barely any. Even the cheapest is pretty expensive. [And she did a lot of her shopping when they made landfall.]

All right, well...I feel like less of an idiot then, because I only got here just before the rationing anyway. Or maybe it just feels like that's been going on forever.

You shouldn't feel like an idiot at all! [Yup.] It definitely feels like it's going on forever, though. [Sigh.]

I'm used to scrounging and scavenging, but...pickings are slim when everyone scrounges and scavenges.

People are working on solutions, but yeah. It's difficult, especially for people who have never been through something like this before.

Never thought there'd be a benefit to growing up dirt poor before.

Yay me!

[A snort.] There's a reason for everything that happens.

How Mister Miyagi of you.

I really don't mean to be all zen.

That's exactly what someone who is all zen would say.

I'm not zen! Trust me. I'm paranoid, a lot. And nervous. I'm a big naysayer. Zen people are usually not those things.

Bah, I'm sure they are, they're just better at hiding it because of all the Zen.

Makes sense. I guess that would make them better at not revealing themselves.

Secret ninja zen people, sure.

Anything's possible, right?

[There's a small laugh from Mike.]

You know, before I got here? I kind of thought that was more a saying than a promise.

Me, too. As many weird things as I've seen back home, it's only been multiplied by one hundred here.

Ugh, tell me about it. Everything was going just fine until boom we're blind-sided by random from out of left field.

That's all that happens here. Blindsided by random out of left field. [A pause.] I'm Vanessa, by the way.

Yeeaaaah,I've been noticing that, Vanessa. I'm Mike.

It's nice to meet you, Mike. I wouldn't expect things to be all that normal around here, basically.

Likewise.

[The he just laughs.]

You're only saying that because we're in an entirely new universe living on the back of an enormous turtle.

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