[Log] Shopping is not for the faint-hearted

[pandabasket]

Characters: China, anyone else who isn't hungover from Christmas Day
Status: Open
When: December 26, around noontime
Location: Somerset Shopping Mall
Summary: After Christmas comes the battle known as the Boxing Day super sales.
Warnings: Watch out for the crowds! Being trampled is not unheard of.

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/slides into thread

[spanana]

Like all previous Christmas Days, Antonio did his best to celebrate it with his friends (the ones that were in the States because he has not accrued enough vacation to go back to Barcelona yet). Though normally their get-togethers usually encompass of late nights out, bar-hopping and perhaps singing (off-key) at the pubs, this holiday came off a bit more solemn, more reflective to the Spaniard (the only one more solemn was Easter). But nonetheless, after the gift exchanges, the alcohol drinking, Antonio had managed to stumble his way home

/welcomes with open arms!

[pandabasket]

Yao looked up to receive a faceful of radiant grin from a stranger. His eyebrow twitched, almost in reflex to such... flippancy, before he quickly cleared his expression into something more polite and readjusted the box securely.

"Don't worry about it," he said. He glanced at his extensive stack of shopping as well and shifted his feet in sudden embarrassment. He looked like an opportunistic old housewife with all this. "I guess. Well, there's no time like this time of year to get a good deal, so I thought I might as well," he added, trying to rationalise it.

He looked at the stranger again, with his bright smile and, he noticed now, distinctive lack of purchases. He blinked, curiosity overcoming self-consciousness. "You don't look like you've bought anything though. Did you come too late?" It was already about noon, after all; a lot of the best stock was already snatched up by now.

Re: /welcomes with open arms!

[spanana]

The other man's enthusiasm, which showed stronger when he was talking about getting great deals, caused Antonio to chuckle a bit as he smiled. Though the Spaniard enjoyed an occasional deal, particularly when it was for expensive clothes and sports equipment, he never quite made it a top priority for himself. There were other things in life that were more important, important enough to outweigh the joys of clinching a great bargain.

"I see, I... honestly didn't hear about these sales," he replied as he looked around at the crowd. He saw the crowds had gotten steadily larger, making it a lto harder to get anyway, however, Antonio just assumed that it was something that normally came with being in a large city. "Come too late?" he repeated with curiosity, "well, I'll get something if I see something I like... hm."

With that, he paused and looked at the man closely. He looked strangely familiar.

[wien_sonata]

Roderich, with a few heavy bags on his hand, had never expected that the stay in New York added another significance to his Christmas

Whoops, how do I reply to both of you. |D Will this do?

[pandabasket]

"You didn't know about these sales?" Yao repeated to the stranger, with some disbelief. Advertisements for these super sales were pasted virtually everywhere even before Christmas, how did anyone not notice...

Well, the more Yao observed him, the more he seemed like a... spacey sort of person. Or mostly spacey. He was looking rather attentively at Yao right now and the Asian frowned a little, uncomfortably.

"Is there something--" he started to say, cautiously, but was interrupted by a sudden greeting from a different direction.

He tilted his head around. Oh, that was... the Chairman of Department C, wasn't it? Rod... Roderich? Roderich something-stein. Yao shrugged mentally and smiled, shifting his slipping grip on the heavy plate box again as he turned slightly towards him. "Ah, hello!" His smile widened a bit, seeing how heavily laden with bags they both were. "Sales like this are hard to pass up, aren't they?"