By the Fire: Starbucks

-Hi! How are you?
-Oh, Good. How are you?
-Oh, Good, just getting some Christmas shopping done. Have you finished yet?
-Not even close. I don't know. I kind of hate Christmas.
-Hate Christmas? Why?
-I don't know. Just a bunch of capitalist brainwashing.
-I guess, yeah. Yeah, that's for sure.
-I don't know.
-I mean it also proves that capitalism isn't natural for human beings.
-How's that?
-I mean, capitalism and the free hand of the market and all that. We're supposed to be rational consumers. But the most rational thing would either be not buying each other gifts, or just saying I'd like cash and hoping the other person gives you more than you give them.
-Hahaha.
-Haha. I'm serious. Kind of. Christmas proves, at least a little, we aren't rational. We like gifts more than money. Thoughtful gifts at least.
-I guess so. Haha.
-Haha
-Still gotta wait til pay day to get my shopping started.

At the Front Desk: Public Library

-Jeremy?
-Pardon me?
-You don’t remember me?
-Umm. I don’t think so?
-It’s me.
-Sorry, where do we know each other from?
-Why are you looking at me like that?
-I’m sorry, I’m not meaning to.
-You’re only two hundred.
-Sorry, what’s that?
-A two hundred year old vampire should never be looking at an eight hundred year old vampire like that.
-What?
-Ever. 

By the Windows: Public Library

-This is my new phone.
-Oh, that's a nice one.
-It's from my dad. We have a bet.
-What's the bet?
-If I break it before Christmas, I owe him one hundred dollars. But if I don't, then he owes me a hundred.
-Oh, that's good. Better be careful then.
-He's my dad. His name is Randy. I call him Uncle. He's like an uncle to me.