MY ONLY WEAKNESS IS THE TWO FOR ONE DEAL.

[sue_ur_wok]

WHO: Yao, Emi, Raivis and other bargain shoppers!
WHEN: Thursday afternoon (September 3rd).
WHERE: 99¢ Only Store.
WHAT: Cheapasses of the world unite!
RATING: S is for savings.

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H-hope th-this is a-alright...

[man_nav_naudas]

On this day, this day of mildly malfunctioning cart wheels and peculiar strangers roaming vacant aisles, of slashed paychecks and monetary sacrifices to the god called Bills, there existed even still, salvation. A place where the weary, the desperate and the I-just-made-my-housing-payment-now-I'm-broke journeyed to so that they might, at last, purchase that gleaming hair dryer made in China. Or that holy-shit-cheap light bulb for a certain malfunctioning, definitely broken fixture dangling uselessly in the living room.

The doors creaked and rattled their welcome to this holy place of bargains and Raivis Galante shyly feeling absolutely no bizarre sort of empathy at all with the way the doors trembled and moaned... at all... hearkened to the call.

He lightly nudged his cart with his foot when it had stopped moving and noticed, as he raised his head, that thankfully, the store wasn't too full today. A lovely young woman somewhere near the back, a few gentlemen scattered here and there, the clerk, and what appeared to be an older woman with enormous sunglasses and a headscarf.

Who looked... disturbingly similar to his grandmother.

His dead grandmother.

The one who had sent him a package not but a few days prior.

Raivis sucked in a deep breath. Couldn't be. Couldn't be, wasn't possible...

And yet, ever so slightly, he pushed his cart forward and began stalking perusing the aisles in what he hoped appeared to be a casual manner.