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[motioned]

[Today, the NV turns on as the girl on the screen is walking down the produce aisle of a grocery store, though she's not necessarily looking to buy anything.]

It's been a while since I was here! I don't usually go shopping or anything like that, but I thought it would be good if I tried to get a job again since it's the summer. I don't want to just sit around, after all!

[She smiles, before something to the side catches her eye - there's a fly sitting on an apple. Alarmed, she reaches for the piece of fruit, pulling it out of the middle of the pile where it had been resting. Of course, this sends the apple just above it falling down, and when she reaches over with her other hand to grab it, she slips. The hand that had been going for the falling apple instead hits the pile as she tries to save herself from falling, but all this really accomplishes is sending a good amount of the apples onto the ground.]

Oh, oh, jeez, I didn't mean to—

[From behind, there's a gasp from an onlooker, and she casts a worried glance behind her, starting to run before promptly tripping over a fallen apple. Muffled laughter can be heard before she picks herself up, sprinting down the aisle before she thinks to turn the NV off.]

Comments

LOL

[doeswhathewants]

So I ought to always tell the truth, even when it is impolite or cruel?

[motioned]

Well, lying is cruel all the time, and telling the truth is only a little mean some of the time!

[doeswhathewants]

Oh, that's not true at all. The best insult is usually the truth.

[motioned]

But the truth is good a lot of the time!

[doeswhathewants]

You preferred the lie when I told it.

[motioned]

Yeah, except it wasn't really a lie, because I'm not going to flail!

[doeswhathewants]

Uh huh.

[motioned]

It's true!

[doeswhathewants]

I reserve the right to tell you I told you so should I be right and you flail.

[motioned]

Well, I won't, so you'll—

[As she...trips spectacularly. Yep.]

[doeswhathewants]

You were saying?

[motioned]

[After a second of picking herself up:]

Flailing and tripping are two different things! [She thinks.]

[doeswhathewants]

They both fall under the blanket term of spazzing.

[motioned]

Well, they're still different either way!

[doeswhathewants]

If you say so.

[motioned]

I do say so!

[doeswhathewants]

Then as the lady says.

[motioned]

...Are you lying again?

[doeswhathewants]

Sidestepping. It's not like lying at all.

[motioned]

What's sidestepping?

[doeswhathewants]

It is when one avoids talking about an issue rather than addressing it.

[motioned]

There's no issue to address!

[doeswhathewants]

Of course there isn't.

[Tips his head] That one is called placating.

[motioned]

I don't need to be placated, I'm not a little kid or anything!

[doeswhathewants]

How old are you?