what, I'm supposed to work on Thanksgiving week?
If the day before a vacation is a vacation and, in the case of two days off or more in a row, the day before the day before a vacation is a vacation, then the afternoon after a morning of meetings and before the day before the day before a vacation is as good a time as any to open up the request line.
1) Pick a character and get one of: (a) ( Read more... )
1) Pick a character and get one of: (a) ( Read more... )
They might have actually gotten away with it if Manny hadn't stuck it in the same pouch as his pistachio stash.
Lorne had recognized the potential for danger once Suarez had spotted the tiny chinchilla-things during their meal break. Yes, they were cute, no, they couldn't take any of them home. No, not even for Doctor Clayton.
The boys seem to think that getting a pet for Clayton will somehow lead to Yoni getting laid, which will in turn somehow lead to Yoni transforming into a more sparkly personality. It's a genuinely hilarious set of assumptions on several levels and Lorne wishes he had more people to laugh with about it because he's not sure Yoni's realized exactly what they're up to. Yoni thinks they're doing it because they like Clayton and she doesn't get out of the city as much as they do.
What ultimately undoes Lorne's careful handling of Operation Housepet is a faulty assumption of his own -- that Ortilla, by virtue of age and experience, is not as whimsical batshit insane as the other two. So when Manny tells Suarez and Reletti to turn out their pockets before they dial home and Suarez produces a chinchilla-thing, Lorne figured the problem was solved for the day. It never crossed his mind that Suarez was carrying the decoy chinchilla-thing.
Once discovered, Lorne takes the chinchilla-thing to Life Sciences himself, telling Gorshuk that they should probably name it Nancy.
Over dinner the following evening, after telling his sorry tale to a completely unsympathetic Branson, Lorne asks him to quietly find a way for Clayton to win a fish lottery. It doesn't have to be a good fish or a pretty fish -- hell, it can be a snail -- just something. Because this time it was a chinchilla-thing, but next time it will be God knows what and it won't necessarily be on Lorne's watch.
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That is possibly my favorite sentence that you've ever written. Yoni /= sparkly. Ever. :D
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Thanks lots for this. Yes, I find the idea of a more 'sparkly' Yoni hysterical.
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What's happened to Lorne? Not enough sleep? He ought to have known better; those marines of his are nothing if not resourceful! *LOL*
I loved reading this. *sighs* Thanks so much for putting a little sunshine into a crappy week.
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