Money Anxiety

[heroforfun]

Who: Saitama (heroforfun) & Anyone that goes shopping
What: There's this weird bald guy in the grocery store going over some food stamps and coins and staring at the values like they're completely foreign to him.
When: Late afternoon
Where: Vista City streets
Warnings: I'm lazy and don't like writing prose?

[Saitama's spent the time since arriving just trying to get situated as quickly as possible - which meant finding the homeless assistance center for aid and services. They weren't requesting any in-depth information yet since he didn't sign up for long-term aid, but the food stamps wouldn't last forever. Still, finding a job isn't impossible with the open resource center, and "Makoto Furukawa" found himself a job in construction. It's been a weird few days, he swears the giant beams and cinder blocks are the slightest bit heavier than they normally feel... Saitama just chalks that up to other planets and weird density issues, at first. Not that he makes the statement to anyone, just trudging through his settling in.

But now he's gotten his first pay after making a request to his employer (explaining his homeless situation) and he's found a decently popular grocery store. But he's quickly sweating anxiously, fidgeting and tugging on his shirt and work vest. And, of course, digging through his wallet and staring at the very, very small amount of food in his basket.

He should've read about how food worked here. He should've checked what the money worth was supposed to be. He never looked at what apartments cost. Is he overpaying? Is he buying crap? Is there a better deal? Needless to say, this is probably the most stressful thing he's had to deal with since getting here... whereas the other rescuers were probably much more worried about getting caught.]

Crap... I really don't want to owe anybody...

Comments

[wounds]

What's your favorite?

[heroforfun]

[He shrugs.]

Something cheap.

[wounds]

There's a fast food joint close by.

[heroforfun]

That or a streetside store. Whatever's fine.

[wounds]

No preferences at all?

[heroforfun]

Not really.

[He's sure this is Genos, but he has to keep his distance, supposedly. ...This is weird.]

[wounds]

You like long soggy fries though.

So fast food is probably easiest.

[heroforfun]

Okay, sure. Let's do that.

[wounds]

Would you like to finish shopping first?

[heroforfun]

Well, yeah, I'm not walking out of here without paying.

[wounds]

Then let's finish up.

[heroforfun]

[He makes a few more decisions, and decides to completely empty his pockets for a full week of food (ugh) and goes to the scanner. It takes a bit before he can figure it out (weird formats, also reading English is bizarre as hell) but eventually he's scanned and is bagging the last of his groceries and goes to pass the cashier his food stamps and chump change.]

[wounds]

[Except Genos got there first and swipes his card before Saitama can actually pay.]

[heroforfun]

[Wha]

Hey? Those are my groceries.

[wounds]

Yes.

[It's too late now.]

[heroforfun]

Don't take my groceries, man, that's not funny.

[wounds]

I'm not taking them.

They're still yours.

[He's just buying them for you.]

[heroforfun]

Huh?

[wounds]

They're still yours.

[He'll hand over the receipt and the grocery bags.]

[heroforfun]

[Genos. This is definitely, definitely Genos.]

Don't pull a "you owe me" later, then, or I'll knock your teeth out.

[wounds]

Of course not.

[heroforfun]

Good. Fine. Whatever. Let's eat.

[wounds]

Then let's go.
[He'll pay for his things and starts following Makoto out]

[heroforfun]

[Man. Genos makes weird faces like this. Also the sunglasses are super weird.]

What gives you the kind of spending money to blow off on some guy like me?

[wounds]

I'm the lead vocals in MÄNTICORE.

[Because obviously everybody's at least heard of them.]