Flower Shopping

[strangetomato]

Here's a little scene I cooked up for a laugh. Remember when Beau and Frances bought Tank a certain special flower to spruce up his home? Well, this shows them on their flower shopping trip.








"We have a wide selection of roses," Ripp enthused to one of his customers. "Would you like me to show you some examples?"

"You know, I hear he'll make out with anything," Beau said. "Even robots."

"Yeah, I heard that." Frances played along, emboldened by Beau's pressence. As Beau had said before, it served Ripp right to have the shoe placed on the other foot. He'd done it to him, hadn't he?

"Hey, Ripp! Can I have a kiss? You've kissed everyone else." Beau teased. He continued to make kissing sounds. "Hey, I'm looking for a kiss over here. Kissy kissy kissy..."




"I can't believe we've been waiting here for so long," Beau said, much too loudly. "I was told this salesman was EASY to get service from..."

"Can you excuse me for one moment?" Ripp asked the woman.




"Oh, hey, Ripp! How nice of you to finally come help us. I was just wondering if —"










"So, yeah... is there anything else I can help you with?"

There was only stunned silence for a moment.




"Well, we were interested in a plant," Frances finally said.

"Umm, yeah..." Beau added, "how much is that dick plant back there?"

Comments

[crushthecamera.livejournal.com]

I knew he'd do that. That's so Ripp. Always seems to need to be in control and have the upper hand, especially in low-risk situations like this. (That sounds totally contradictory but it's one of the most interesting things about him, to me, that when it comes to more serious stuff he tends to want to get some distance between him and it and let the 'professionals' take over.)

Anyway, yes. That was awesome and brightened my day.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I really like this comment, and I've been turning it over in my head ever since you posted it. I think it is very true. Ripp has tended to bail out on anything "real" up to this point, preferring to live in his own little detached dream world. Part of it, I think, is a fear of investing himself in something he assumes he will fail.

Thank you. ^_^