[The video comes on, showing a blank ceiling.] Crap. Damn stupid... [Video goes wonky until it shows Jubilee, holding a bottle of Seven Crown in one hand. Several empty beer bottles clink together]
So! [a wave of the bottle] Not only is this snowstorm sucking all the joy out of the damned world, but... [a swig of whiskey] but... where was I? Oh!
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I'm sure you'll get a new job soon enough. With a much, much braver boss than that!
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I was good at my job, Doc. I was good at it. I've been training most of my life for a job like that. And I was good at it.
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You'll find a better job soon! I know you will! Just keep your chin up!
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Is there really no other way for you to keep your job? Or to talk to that student, even?
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Nope. Boss apologized but... [a clink of bottles] Crap. But... The Hoity-Toities... [a giggle] Hoity-toities, hoity-toities... Where was I? Oh, right. The 'rents? Threatened to boycott, and take their friends with 'em. Boss couldn't afford that so pffffffffft no job for Jubie.
[a long pause] Heeeeeeeeeeey do I know you?
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[sighs a little after taking a puff from his pipe] That kind of customer isn't easy to handle. Not in a set-up like this. If your boss likes how you worked, though, at least he's able to give a good recommendation for when you apply for a job next.
We may have spoken before, but not much. My name is Watanuki.
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And hangovers? Who's got a hangover? I know a great cure. I don't get 'em, ever since Dad taught me how to drink.
And boss is lettin' me use the gym whenever I want, so I'll at least still get my workouts. Veeeeeeeeeeery important. If I don't Wolvie'll come an' whip me into shape. And that usually sucks.
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They fired you for that?! You should sue them or something.
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The Church of what? I don't--
People should care about this kind of thing! They say they want us to act like them and then they treat us differently?! That's not right!
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They do it, because they can. [yawn, words are slurred] They do it just because they can.
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This rich kid, Stuart... what do his parents do that makes them so rich and entitled?
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I've got no idea. Don't care. At least my Dad was a banker... well, my first Dad. Second Dad was... is... pfft, whatever. He was awesome. He'd totally go snikt a few people. He's a snikter.
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Hm. [A snikter? Wow.] People like that need to see things in perspective. Just because they're in the money and native here...
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I had money. Spoiled little rich girl. Yeeeeeeeeeep. Spoiled little rich girl. I miss LA.
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