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Living With Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]

Feb 16, 2010 11:37

As he walked into class today Max looked relaxed and, well, pretty much like himself. Not at all like he'd handwavily headed back to Alera to see if the Captain had any new orders for him last week.

"Good afternoon," he smiled as he looked over his students fondly. "You might notice that this week I am alone." He waved his hands in case there ( Read more... )

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The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 16:38:39 UTC

Now that you think about it, who do you wish you'd buttered up over the holiday? And what would you have gotten them?

Re: The discussion decoder_rings February 16 2010, 16:52:05 UTC

"Always good to give gifts to the principal, right?" Hannibal suggested. "She's--"

He paused and reconsidered. Hot was possibly not right even if it was true.

"--competent. Might means she remembers that when you get in trouble."

Re: The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 16:53:19 UTC

"Not a bad idea," Max nodded thoughtfully, filling in the unspoken description in his head. "But the real question is: what would you give her?"

Re: The discussion decoder_rings February 16 2010, 16:56:48 UTC

"A dartboard with a place to stick pictures of troublemaking students," he said, pulling that one out of his ass.

Re: The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 17:00:18 UTC

"Not bad," Max allowed, nodding thoughtfully. "As long as your picture didn't end up on there, at least."

Re: The discussion decoder_rings February 16 2010, 17:07:59 UTC

"Well, even if it did, I could feign that I'm just misunderstood and maybe she'd like to help me," Hannibal replied. "Taking responsibility, being self aware and giving a gift. She'd think good of me forever."

Re: The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 17:09:51 UTC

Max gave Hannibal a long, somewhat doubtful, look. "You... think you can fool Principal Washburn about being a poor misunderstood boy?" Either the boy was an acting genius, or...

Re: The discussion decoder_rings February 16 2010, 17:11:47 UTC

"I think I could try." He'd fail. "And you don't know what you can do until you try, right?"

Re: The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 17:14:42 UTC

"True, but..." Max shrugged. "With difficult women, it's generally a good idea to play it safe. You try to fool one of them and fail? It's much worse than not trying at all."

Re: The discussion decoder_rings February 16 2010, 17:16:12 UTC

"But, what if it worked?" Hannibal brought up. "Then I'd have missed the opportunity because I backed off."

Re: The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 17:20:08 UTC

"Risk and reward," Max nodded. "As always, the question is whether you think you have enough of a chance of success to take the risk." And this was Zoe they were talking about...

Re: The discussion decoder_rings February 16 2010, 17:23:18 UTC

"I guess, if the situation ever arises, I'd have to check myself," he decided. "See how it falls."

Re: The discussion furious_maximus February 16 2010, 17:29:24 UTC

"And cross your fingers that you guess right." Max grinned. "All you can ever do, really."

Re: The discussion elephantgadget February 16 2010, 19:08:10 UTC

Helen wasn't certain about the buttering up part, still... "Perhaps Hinata," she said slowly. "Not that she is difficult in any way, but she was kind enough to send me flowers because she thought it would not be a common thing for me."

Kianah might have poked her long ears out of her pocket and chirruped a little at Hinata's name.

Re: The discussion thatsamilkshake February 16 2010, 22:39:22 UTC

Francine shrugged. "I mostly just feel guilty I didn't make cookies for everybody." She was busy, okay?

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