Would you credit it?

[vila_restal]

From theatrical_muse: If you won the equivalent of $2,000, and had to spend it, what would you spend it on?

What? I'd spend it on a who--my Kerril. A lot of people don't think of gunhands liking nice things, but they haven't met Kerril. Or Soolin for that matter, who spends more time on inventive hairstyles than cleaning her gun. [hastily] Not that I'm complaining.

Anyway, Kerril loves to dress up to the nines (whatever that means) and why not, after all those years in a state home, then Star Fleet, then with Bayban who liked all his henchpeople in black leather. Bit done to death around here, that. And literally too, sometimes. So I'd buy her some dresses and soft flowing pantsuits in something pretty and colourful and silky and as little like a uniform you can get, and some jewellery to set it off. Then I'd take her to dinner at a swanky planet-side restaurant, the sort where you get different cutlery for each course and an Alpha for a wine waiter.

You know what? I've got enough money from Freedom City and that wood deal on Trantor to do that as often as I like. So I think I will.

Comments

[comradecally.livejournal.com]

[slight laugh] Sometimes your culture seems very alien, Vila.

[vila-restal.livejournal.com]

Why? I don't notice you not wearing nice clothes.

[comradecally.livejournal.com]

[amused] Good! I'd be worried about where you were spying on me, otherwise. No, I mean, why can't an Alpha be a wine waiter normally?

[vila-restal.livejournal.com]

[sniggers as the meaning of the first part hits him]

Service grade job, isn't it? Except that some really snobby places get Alphas to do the wine and food, I suppose because it implies a mere Delta wouldn't know about the vintages, and the height of the bloody cuisine. I used to like dressing up back on Earth and going to one of those places and getting 'em to serve me.