#cleaning port-a-potties and getting trash out of the trash cans
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i'd like to think that cas invests in some trash grabbers and he spends his weekends picking up litter from the side of the road because he wants to make some kind of difference at least
#brought to you by me working at a park on the weekends#i wish my entire shift was just cleaning up litter instead of doing dumb things like#cleaning port-a-potties and getting trash out of the trash cans#like let me pick up plastic and bottle tops from the shoreline so the fish don't ingest them!!!!!!!!!!!#sorry i'm just ranting at this point
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Strawberry Tequila
“I’m cleaning.”
Adam looked up from where he was hanging off the couch. Upside down, his legs hooked over the back of the couch. In his hands was a ball made of rubber bands. He pulled at one of the bands, letting it snap back against the ball. From his vantage point, he saw just the top of Bak’s head as she stood in the doorway. Her short hair pushed up from a headband wrapped around her forehead, and her nose wrinkled as she looked around the living room.
“Why?” Adam asked. He threw the ball up. It fell back down, hitting him in the stomach. He scrambled to catch it, barely snatching it up again before it rolled away.
“Because this place is disgusting,” Bak said. She bent down, picking up an old banana peel that was black and shriveled. “How do you live like this?”
“Easy. I live like this,” Adam said, throwing the ball again. It landed on his face this time, bouncing off his nose. “Ow!”
“Well, I’m not going to,” Bak said. “Where do you keep your soap?”
“Soap?”
“Do… do you not know what soap is?” Bak asked in apparent horror.
Adam righted himself, feeling a bit dizzy as the blood rushed back to his head. Now right-side up, he saw that Bak was wearing a muscle shirt and bleached jeans that still showed faint signs of blood. For the first time, he noticed the scars curved around her arm. They looked deep and old.
“Nah, I know what soap is,” Adam said. “I just don’t think we have any.”
“How do you wash your dishes?”
“Uhhh… ever hear of paper plates?”
Bak groaned, putting one hand on her hip and the other coming up to pinch the bridge of her nose, her eyes shut tight. “Christ… okay. I’m going to go ask the neighbors. Can you at least pick up the recyclables and put them in the bin?”
“Sure. Quick question,” Adam held up a finger, looking around at the mess of pizza boxes, soda cans, and miscellaneous socks and take-out packages. “What counts as recyclable?”
“You are the reason climate change exists,” Bak said, deadpan and already grabbing her wallet. “I’ll be back in a few.”
“Have fun!”
Bak walked out, slamming the door behind her. Turning back to the room, Adam starting grabbing trash.
She didn’t seem too bad. Better than Ralph at least. Not that it was hard to beat Ralph as a good roommate, but Adam’s standards of friendship weren’t exactly high. Not after what he’d been through. He’d take friends where he could get them.
Berry was a constant in his life. Every moment of every day for the past three years, Adam could feel Berry there. Another presence, watching along with him. He wasn’t always nice, and he wasn’t always happy, but he was there. Gauging the danger. Letting Adam figure things out. Like the ultimate helicopter parent, Berry watched as Adam fucked up with a laugh, but always with a few short words to help him out of the holes he dug.
It didn’t take long for Bak to come back with a container of blue liquid soap. She started picking up the few dishes Adam owned, taking the to the sink and began to wash. Adam, instantly abandoning the small pyramid of soda cans he was making, came up next to her. He pulled himself up onto the counter, swinging his legs out as Bak pointedly ignored him.
“So…” Adam said. “What are you?”
Bak didn’t look up, grabbing a plate and furiously scrubbing it. She looked human now, other than the golden eyes. No claws, no fangs. Just a girl. Still, there was hidden power in her muscled arms. There was a danger in the way she watched him. Adam hadn’t been around long, but he’d been around long enough to know the look in the eye of person scared enough to do anything to keep what they loved safe. “Kumiho. Well, half Kumiho.”
“Uh huh,” Adam said. “What is that?”
“Fox demon from Korea,” Bak gave him a side glance. She held out her hand, and Adam handed her a dirty cup. She began to clean it.
“Could you elaborate?”
“Yeah, I could.”
Adam waited. Bak silently continued to clean the dishes.
“I don’t think she’s going to tell you anything,” Berry said, a hint of laughter in his gruff voice.
Adam winced. Then, putting on a smile, he leaned over. Getting his head in her line of sight, she snarled at him. “Don’t like talking about yourself?”
“Not really,” Bak said. She held out her hand for another plate, which Adam handed to her. “This living situation is temporary. I… I lost control, and now I just need to figure things out before I leave again. This is not permanent.”
“Then why you cleaning my house?”
“Because it’s gross, and you’re obviously not going to.”
“But it’s my house.”
“It should be clean.”
“Okay, but you just said you’re not going to be living here long—"
“Just—!” Bak slammed her hands down onto the sink. Adam backed up for a moment as her eyes grew brighter, fading before he could blink. Her shoulders heaved, and her fingers clenched the edge of the sink. For a brief moment, she looked as though she was going to lose it. Then, taking in a deep breath, she relaxed. “Just let me do this, alright? Change the subject.”
“Someone has a secret,” Berry said, humorous curiosity piqued. Adam ignored him, propping one leg up on the counter. She didn’t want to talk about it, he wouldn’t talk about it. He wasn’t about to shut up though.
“Have you heard about the birds?”
Bak blinked, looking over. “Wh… what?”
“The birds. They’re not real.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Oh my fucking god,” Berry groaned.
Adam grinned. Anything that could make Berry get that exasperated was a good thing. As Bak picked up the last of the dishes, Adam gestured widely. “Okay, so birds may or may not have been replaced by the government with robots to spy on everybody.”
“I don’t think that’s correct,” Bak said. She for a second the corners of her mouth turned up before she rolled her eyes.
“Okay, but consider this,” Adam said. “The birds are robots.”
Adam was good at talking. Since waking up three years ago with nothing to own but a name, he’d found himself unable to shut up. Usually it was Berry he ended up talking to. Looking insane as he walked from city to city. Talking about whatever was on his mind. Talking about the new foods he tasted, or the colors of the sunrise peeking over the ridge. He’d talk about all the new things, and all the old things. Talking was the one thing that Adam had. It was what he could do when he was backed into a corner. Maybe he wasn’t good at it, and maybe he got annoying fast, but it was his. His voice belonged to him.
So Adam talked.
Bak listened.
They eventually moved on from the sink. Adam trailed after Bak as she walked about the apartment, picking up whatever she pointed at. They moved as a team. Bak doing most of the work, and Adam chatting her ear off. He switched topics as easily as the wind blew. Talking about old roommates and cities he had seen. He talked about the night he found a family of rats living in his closet, and he talked about the night he accidentally burnt down a port-a-potty. Bak was a good listener. Only interrupting to snort at the jokes, or to voice her disbelief as some wacky adventure Adam had found himself fallen into.
It took hours, but soon the apartment looked decently livable.
Collapsing onto the couch, Bak groaned. “Fuck, I cannot believe you didn’t know about those moldy nachos.”
“In my defense,” Adam said, sitting down next to her. “I thought it was a houseplant Ralph bought.”
Bak huffed out a tired laugh. For a moment it was quiet. Well, as quiet as it could get in an apartment with thin walls. In that moment, Adam felt something he hadn’t felt in a long time. He couldn’t really place the emotion. It wasn’t happy… but it wasn’t sad either. A longing for something he’d lost? But what had he lost?
Adam shoved it down. He was fine.
“Hey,” Bak said, rolling her head to look over at him. “You ever play imp cards?”
“No?”
A toothy grin spread across Bak’s face. “Perfect.”
She jumped to her feet, running to her room. Quickly returning, now with a jacket slung around her shoulders, she held a black card case. It was covered in swirly gold designs. The image of a sickly thin creature with a rounded stomach and bulging eyes sat crisscross at the center.
“Isn’t that Ralphs jacket?” Adam asked.
Bak shrugged, “He isn’t exactly here to claim it anymore.”
She sat back down next to Adam. Setting the cards top, she tapped the center twice. “Imp, we’d like to play.”
With a small burst of dull green light, the image was now gone. Instead, an actual imp with large eyes and plump stomach was sitting on the cover. Stick thin arms crossed, and glaring up at them.
“What do you wanna play?” the imp said in a high-pitched voice with a thick Irish accent.
Bak gave a side glance at Adam. “Do you have a preference?”
Adam scrambled through his three years of memories. “Uhhhhhhhhhhh…”
“Uno.”
“Uno?”
The gold swirls glowed in a flash before returning to normal. The imp crawled off the cards as Bak picked then up and started dealing them out. Clearing their voice, the imp squeaked, “Alright. Rules of Uno. First to discard all the cards wins. Match by color and number. Do not fucking cheat.”
“Uhhh,” Adam took his cards from Bak. “Do all card games come with a little dude?”
“Just the unnatural ones,” Bak said. She flipped over the first card on the stack, revealing a red four. “You go first.”
Adam laid down a yellow five. Before he could react, the imp launched itself at his hand. Tiny teeth sunk into his thumb. The imp jumped back as Adam yanked his hand back. “Ow! What the heck, man?”
“You played the wrong card,” Bak said, hiding a smile behind her hand.
“Play by the rules or face my wrath!” the imp jumped up and down, shrieking.
“Heh,” Berry chuckled. “I’ve missed these guys.”
Adam flipped off the imp, who screamed in rage. Laying down a yellow card, Bak then took her turn, and then his again. The game was fun, despite the anal imp who tolerated no cheating and no rule breaking. Even Bak managed to get bitten a few times. By the time the first round was over, Adam’s hand was covered in tiny bite marks. At some point, Adam jumped up to get a bottle of strawberry tequila he’d made a few nights before. The sweet alcohol burned. Soon both Bak and Adam felt its effects, making them giggle more and receive more bites as drunken mistakes were made.
“Again?” Bak asked, dealing out another hand as they finished the first game.
“Sure,” Adam said, taking another long drink. Berry hated strawberry tequila. Adam loved it.
They played again, and then again, and then again. Insults were traded, imps screamed, and laughs were had. That aching feeling in Adams chest grew, no matter how much he ignored it. The knowledge that something was missing. Something wasn’t where it should be.
But it didn’t matter, so Adam didn’t care.
As they played, Bak started to relax. She started smiling more, and her insults grew friendly. She even knocked her shoulder into Adams with a laugh when she laid down her fury of a draw four. It was nice. Bak was still terrifying, even as a normal person without the claws and fangs. Here, playing a game with him however, she felt real. Less like the monster he’d found in the woods, and more like another person. Another weirdo who didn’t quite fit the box.
Someone a little more like him, and a little less against his world.
“I’m out for the night,” Bak said, raking in her fifth win. She tapped the center of the box twice again, the imp disappearing. She took her cards back, standing with a small smile. “Thanks for uh, thanks for hanging out.”
“No problamo,” Adam said, popping out finger guns.
Bak rolled her eyes, walking back to her room. The door closed behind her with a quiet click.
“You know she isn’t staying,” Berry reminded him.
“Yeah, yeah,” Adam said, standing and stretching. “Let me enjoy something for once.”
“I’m just saying,” Berry said. “She isn’t… fuck, how can I say this without destroying your brain?”
“Just don’t say it,” Adam said, wincing at the memories of the painful white-noise that came whenever Berry tried to say certain things. “Just… just shush.”
“Fine,” Berry said with a gruff huff. There was a pause, and then Berry said quietly. “You still don’t remember anything?”
“Should I?”
“I just thought… it’s nothing,” Berry said, and Adam could practically feel him shaking his head in the back of his brain. “Night, kid.”
“Night, Berry.”
Berry retreated. Adam was left alone, staring at a dead TV as dogs barked down the street, sirens wailed from the distance, and somewhere above him the neighbors started having fun.
That ache he hated was back.
Adam picked up the bottle of strawberry tequila, staggering over to collapse on the kitchen floor and take another long drink. He could make all the feelings go away except the happy ones. All he wanted were the happy ones.
He was happy.
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Bastards of the Perfect|| Persephone and Isla
@ledabunnie-rp @danhowell-rp
“Mom?! What are talking about?” Isla said when her mother walked by with bags.
“Don’t ask me that! You know we have to go! When it’s time to go, it’s time to go. Your father gets it. I dunno how many times I have to tell you this-”
“I DON’T WANNA GO!”
“You WHAT?”
“Mommy, come here. Stop this. I don’t wanna leave again. I like living with my dad as a family. Why do have to leave?”
“You know why, Isla! Why are you being so difficult? I thought you like going on trips with mommy-”
“NO! I hate it just as much as I like it. You don’t plan them. You just pack our bags and we go. We’ve lived on the street. Daddy’s paid for hotel after hotel- and you still wanna live in these cheap motel-”
“Because he’ll find us-”
“WHO MOM?! Who the fuck are you running from? Dad told me that he’s dead. Like really dead. Like took me to his grave dead. Like we don’t have to run anymore dead.”
“Watch your mouth. Pack your bags...I need to know you’re safe..”
“I’m safe right here with Daddy and in this loft with you! I’m not going!”
“Isla Artemis Muir-Cyr...you know what?! Fuck it! You don’t wanna leave? Fine! I just better see you here when I get back! All I’ve ever done is keep you safe! All I’ve done is show you love and protect you and this is what you do?!”
“Leda, don’t try to guilt-trip me when you’re the one who refuses to go to therapy for your PTSD. I’m tired of this-”
“What the fuck? Isla!” Cyr called from the living room as he walked into the house, “What’s going on?”
“*gasp* Vincent...Finally, he’ll talk some sense into you-”
“TALK SOME SENSE INTO ME?! Fuck you!” she blurted, getting her backpack and stuffing some clothes and putting on some clothes and storming into the living room into her father.
“Hey, hey. Honey bunch, what’s wr- woahh woah! Where’s the fire? Hey! Stop! Talk to me!” Cyr said as he grabbed her but spun them around gripped her harder and gave her a small shake to get her into the moment.
“Mom wants to leave again and I just can’t do it again. Especially since it’s for no reason,” Isla began, still huffing, “I’m not a kid anymore. Why does she do this? Why doesn’t she get treatment? Why do you let her go? Don’t you love her? Why won’t you make her stay?! Dad, she fucks people to get a place to sleep! She gambles, she steals! Moms aren’t supposed to do those things! I’m not supposed to see those things!”
“Isla...come here. It’s not her fault. That guy whose grave I took you to, right? He did a lot of fucked-up things to her and it’s hard for her to come to terms with all of it. You don’t have to go, it’s okay. She did protect you, and she took care of you as best she could. She loves you and she loves the company. Look. Don’t go anywhere. I’ll see if I can talk to her out of this episode.” The lanky man embraced his daughter, rubbing her back and kissing her cheek and forehead as he walked back into what is their bedroom.
Isla sat and waited for a few minutes through the screams and yells back and forth. The usual thrashing and breaking of items in their room because Leda’s manic energy was so high. Then it died down a little and she heard little cries of her mother supposedly accepting that it’s over and that it’s ok. The walls in this loft are even walls. They’re like paper partitions with soundproofing and heavy curtains. She soon heard her mother, she heard the bed, and slapping noises and her father’s name...well let’s just say her parents are making up. Gross. She got up, wrote a note on the fridge and took something to drink and a snack before she grabbed her dad’s keys and left.
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Persephone/Persi had been at home and once again she was grounded. Go figure. She packed a bag because she knew she needed more time and space away from her family. They’d understand even though they don’t understand her as a person. Eh, maybe one day. Right now, she’s going to make the most of her 17 years of life so far and her underlying mental illness. She took her stash out and the prepaid card her grandparents loaded for her and used Dan’s ZipCar account to drive from Vegas to LA.
She looked around to see where the other kids a little older than her were doing and she settled on the Santa Monica Pier. She walked the boardwalk and scored some weed and cigarettes from the other kids because she looked like them. She was having fun and drinking a little until she felt like she was no longer the kid with two gay parents and a twerp for a little gay brother with a hard-on for their oldest cousin.
She was flying on the beach at the bonfire with everyone having fun. Her new friends were being awfully cool and they were just sharing weed and stories and bottles of various alcohols that she could get her hands on. Tonight it felt like her last night being in high school, her last night being this young. She wondered what would come of this experience until they said that they were going to the Sunken City.
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The red haired girl offered to let her catch a ride to the Sunken City with her for no charge. The car felt and smelled like a rental. They shared cigarettes on the drive up and some stories about their lives. The brown haired girl felt something different about the girl driving, it didn’t feel creepy and it didn’t feel like they should be friends, either. She had feelings for a girl she just met and was giving her a free Uber to this location on a school night and they were both floating
“Where do you go to school?” Persephone asked, “Just like location and if you like it. I hate school”
“Uhh..oh,uhh I got to someplace in the valley. Real casual shit. I hate everyone there and I hate school in general because I don’t like how they teach it’s so lazy and not personal to what I wanna do when I leave. Especially when I was in and out of school for as fucking long as I was-”
“You too?! Fuck I’ve transferred outta like 5 schools across 2 countries for fighting.”
“Woah..I just don’t be at school. I’m most of the time on the road, but it sounds way more badass to move schools for fighting..What happened?”
“No, no. You first, babe. I don’t like talking about something that I can’t explain myself...” Persi kept her eyes on the road.
Isla blushed at the endearment, and it that feeling wasn’t going away. Strange. “My mom is fucking trash. See? When she was a kid, she dated this guy and he was crazy and she got away from him and got kidnapped again so she got away from him again and then my dad said that she was there when one of her friends killed him for her when he found her again, but she’s used to being on the move and on the road, which was fun when I was a kid, then my dad forced us to settle down and I’ve been living in LA and tonight she was trying to leave again..I couldn’t listen to my parents fight and makeup again so I heard that some kids were going to hang out at the pier tonight and here I am.”
“Wow..that’s fucking deep. And gross. You’ve had to hear your parents fuck?” she asked, her American accent slipping, “I get that. My parents fight about what to do with me and my dad was quite the man’s man in their day so my pussy of a dad needs talking down because my mom’s crazy. I was basically planned by her but not by my dad. It’s mental. Like really, this apparently had to do with his mental and Daniel is so vetted about it but then again he went and fucked Bryonny and she had my baby brother..ugh..you’d think they’d learn but nooo! They fuckin fight and so I fuckin fight bitch boys at school and birds who try me.”
“How are you in school but you’re driving a rental? Don’t you have to like..be older to drive these?” Isla asked, deflecting from the drama. She really didn’t want to ruin a great night.
“I snuck out, got a hotel room with my money from my grands, and rented the car in Dan’s name. I still got money for like four days, so I’ll go back when that money runs out or I feel like going home, but I just can’t stand it,” Persi explained, “You sound like you’re not trying to see the sunrise in your bedroom either.”
“Damn, how long have you been English? I thought you were-”
“My mum is American. My dad’s from Northern England, Dan’s from like London, I think? And Bryonny’s from Brighton. I have dual citizenship. Hence, being kicked out of primary and secondary school as well as elementary and middle schools around here. I didn’t want to do Sixth Form. So I came to high school in the states. I live in Vegas,” Persi explained, “I hid my accent as best I could because..I didn’t want all the hard-ons and wet panties simply off of my accent. It’s so northern and rough and mixed up. I don’t see how anyone would like it, and it slips...”
“I like your accent..” Isla says, a little quieter, not intending to stare at the girl so long, but she smiled when she saw the girl smile a little.
They parked a little further up on the beach and followed the crowd to the water. Both Isla and Persephone stripped to their underwear and splashed in the moonlight. They settled as they lit the bonfire and broke out the entertainment of sparklers, weed, and little games of touch football. Persi had gone to use the bathroom and left Isla for a few minutes, claiming that she could hold her own. While the redhead was coming back from the port-a-potties, she spotted her new friend being shuffled off and accosted by some chad and she didn’t know what came over her.
“Yo!” Persi called as she saw the girl trying to fight the man off from touching her. When nothing happened she started running and felt herself slipping away even though she had been drinking. On the way she grabbed an empty bottle out of the trash and came crashing into the two, bashing the big bottle against his head and yanking him back, throwing him to the sand and stomped on his head. “Stay away from her, you fucking creep!” she yelled and then realized she had knocked him clean out. It was a fairly large guy, and Isla was stunned. She hadn’t really been in too many situations like this, which is something she can be thankful her mom did, but it was so unlike her to not react to something she felt was coming out of her control. When Persi came up, Isla looked at the girl and their panting matched. Persi couldn’t see the girl, but the girl who stood in front of her liked what she saw.
“I know this is creepy as fuck but you look kinda cute when you’re scared,” she said with an unwavering English accent, “Persi tell you about me?”
Isla was so confused a little scared, “Uhh I don’t even know her name...and thanks?”
“Ah, she’s bad at that sometimes. I’m- well we’re Persephone. I like being called Persephone. Ya know, like the greek person. The one that made a deal with Hades to save her boyfriend and he straight left her and she ended up fucking Hades anyway. That one,” Persephone said, putting her hands in her pockets and flipping her hair over one shoulder, “She usually goes by Persi, like Percy Jackson, like the books? It’s nutted, anyway. I think she likes Greek Mythology or gender-neutral naming, but eh..Either way it’s nice to meet you sweetie.”
Isla was shocked, but she wasn’t too concerned. She had a mother who would just phase out, and she remembers her talking about a guy she went to school with who had a condition like this. Her father backed this up, so it’s gotta be true. She liked how the shift in her accent and her hair placement presented a completely different girl, who she had a harder crush on. Her legs rubbed together and she bit her lip, trying not to smile to big, “Uhmm..I’m Isla..Not Lila, Isla...Like Isla Fisher, like that crazy red-he-oh...sorry.” The girl blushed so hard and played with the dirt with her shoes.
“None taken, cutie! Isla is such a cute name. And yes I know she was the girl Shaggy liked in Scooby Doo, and yeah the crazy chick from Wedding Crashers. Gingers don’t get a good wrap, but it is true we’re amazing in the sack,” Persephone explained, smiling and giggling watching the other girl trying not to meet her gaze. She knew she was fighting with herself, but Persephone was willing to play ball, “So..you wanna get outta here? I think they’re bouta go home or something. I’ve already smuggled enough hooch, grass, and drugs that we can hit up a hotel now.”
“Can we go to a Wal-Mart, first? I wanna pick up some provisions,” Isla explained, “Is there a pool or a spa at the hotel?”
“Yeah I think so. It’s a homestay suite, so I guess I’m gonna cook for the next few days,” Persephone said, pulling the car keys out of her pocket and walking towards the car.
Isla was now very concerned, “Wait, cook for us? That’s romantic, and efficient...how..how old are you?”
“We’re 17. We turn 18 in a few months. I didn’t think it woulda mattered cus you look as old as me. Also I think I have some clothes that might fit you, we look about the same size, as cute as your outfit is, those desert nights aren’t kind,” she said, unlocking the car and opening the door for the girl. She takes some time to get her duffle bag out of the back and brought it to the back seat, pulling out a large heavy hoodie she had from Reiner- which is funny he hadn’t asked for it back yet after their rather interesting night on their field trip- and tossed it to the girl. She pulled about $100 and handed it to Isla to put it to the side for gas.
“Wow..you’re so organized..Have..have you done this before?” she asked, putting on the hoodie and smelled it, catching the tones of cologne and sweat and her body spray and deodorant. It made her melt into the passenger seat, but she wondered who’s cologne she smelled in the fabric of this comfy garment.
“Eh, sorta..I’ve thought about putting this little getaway together for about 6 months. You’re a nice add-on. I’m gonna go back after about 4 or 5 days, because..I just felt so trapped and I needed space to calm down. My parents are usually too busy with work and their own infidelity to give me time and attention like I should get, especially with..ya know..this..” she said, getting in the car and starting it, pulling out, “Where am I dropping you off when this is over, babe?”
Isla’s chest had a resounding bang again and she looked at Persephone. Why does she like this? She doesn’t even know if she likes girls. The GPS on the screen and the soft music in the background gave her time to think. She looked at her phone and saw a few missed calls from her dad then a simple message telling her to be safe and be careful, and that they love her. She swiped away the notifications and opened her phone, playing some game to take her mind off of abandoning her parents. She didn’t feel like a bad kid, she just felt like her mother steals her spotlight. This sweatshirt around her made her think of all the casual relationships she had on the road and how if they would have lasted, maybe she wouldn’t be so unfamiliar to love. Maybe she wouldn’t be so hesitant with her feelings for the girl driving them to a getaway. Even when the guy was simply a jerk, it felt like it was her fault. Watching her parents were no help either. It caused her to panic that she possibly didn’t know how to love or what good love looked like. She was a broken girl and never fit in anywhere. She blanked out when that guy grabbed her, her body barely fought him when his hand snaked up her torso while he pressed together. Coming to and seeing the ginger girl beating him down was so relieving. She’d usually come back and she’d be sore, emotionless, and alone. There, she wasn’t alone. The same girl who gave her a ride had saved her from something she didn’t know about. Her own mother had the same problem and couldn’t explain. Why can’t she fight? Isla now felt like she owed Persi. However, she’s not making it seem that way. She hasn’t even asked for any money; if anything, she gave her cash. What kinda rich kid reject is she, anyway? “You said your parents are gay, right?’ she asked, looking at her, “That’s still a new thing.”
“Yeah, gay. Two different surrogate mothers, AAND English immigrants. Well, I’m actually American. My brother isn’t. I was born in the States and my brother’s mum had her across the pond in Camden. My dad and Dan went to school in Montana, then they wanted two places for us to live-”
“Wait you said Montana?!” Isla jumped up, leaning over the center console “As in the high school and college in the Montana mountains, Montana?”
“Yeah..for YouTubers,” Persi looked at the girl while they stopped at a red light, a little wide-eyed and very surprised that she met someone who knew what she was talking about, “Wait..”
“My parents are Vincent Cyr and Leda Muir...who in the hell are your parents?” she asked, tilting her head.
“Dan Howell and Phil Lester-”
“yOUR pARENTS...Wait wait wait...Hang on. You share biological DNA with Amazing Phil? The Amazing Phil?! Who the fuck is your mom?”
“Cat Valdez...”
“Catrific?! Wow..you’re the heiress of YouTube royalty!”
“And you’re the heiress of YouTube controversy...As am I...So that means-”
“That we both have a base level of a fucked up family. I’ve heard stories about Phan being super toxic and so crazy!”
“Same..I remember when..uh..Cameron? Right? He stormed the campus and someone fucking took him out. It was amazing. Everybody thinks it fucked her up more-”
“It did. It really did. She’s still in denial.”
“She still move around a lot? They used to tell me that they never knew when she was on campus because she would run-”
“Uhh well, when my dad got her pregnant with me she was still running around and then around the time when she had me my parents lived together in the valley in a loft- we still live there now, but my mom would still leave and for a few years and sometimes I’d stay with my grandparents and sometimes I went with her until my dad put his foot down and I said I didn’t wanna move around anymore. So I’ve lived in Carmel Valley for the past 7 years going to school and shit, then tonight happened. My mom just snapped and told me to pack because we’re leaving. I didn’t wanna leave and we fought and I left.”
“..So, fuck I’m sorry, I’m Persi, by the way I forgot to introduc-”
“Persephone filled me in already. You have the same personality disorder your dad did...My mom told me about it before. Phil didn’t use to be the best guy in the world and Dan is dumb enough to be with him this whole time,” Isla said, not moving from the center console as they started on the road again, “No offense but I didn’t know they had kids in the mix.”
“I was a wedding gift, my mom says..then again my mum turned out to be a real psycho when it came to my dad. So yeah, like Persephone graciously explained, my dad does have the same thing, but it went away once he got my mum preggos. She told me his name was Zack. And it will usually tell you how they want to be addressed, but she usually doesn’t talk when she’s around...she just screams and causes havoc which leaves me in trouble..” Persi explained, “My baby brother only came around because Dan was being petty and got Bryonny knocked up. However, it’s way sweeter of a time being around her than Dan or my mom.”
“Oh, then the holidays must suck for you, huh,” Isla commented, “My parents were young and dumb and my mom had this crazy delusion that she couldn’t have kids because of what Cameron did to her or something..When in all reality her reproductive system had healed enough for me to be born. My dad tells me all of the time how she would freak out and stop taking care of herself because she was ‘scared to death of having to stay in one place in case he found her.’ And I’m just like-”
It just sounds like a fucked up way of saying they couldn’t get rid of me.
Persi and Isla had arrived at the store and looked at each other when they had said the sentence, they had looked away into their respective windows, but quickly turned heads to see they felt the same way. They were mistakes. Tactfully set upon this earth to make things worse for their parents regardless of their feelings. They didn’t feel like they belonged, and at the end of the day they didn’t even have the loving comfort of their parents. Just themselves.
“Let’s hurry up and get what we need so we can get to this room,” Persi said quickly, backing off and getting out of the car.
Isla was still frozen. She felt so much at once from once sentence than she ever had with anyone else. Someone who understood. Someone she could stay close to and trust because they were all they had. It made the pang in her chest take her breath away and she sat staring into the center console until Persi jolted her out of it with a hand on her shoulder, “Earth to Isla...Come on!” She hurried along, holding the girl’s hand. They were around the same height, Persi maybe a little taller. She wasn’t sure that the ginger even noticed that they had linked until they walked into the automatic doors and saw that she meant to do it, “Uhh, why are you holding my hand?”
“Because this is like the second time you’ve just spaced out on me. I can’t afford to bring you back to your family if I lose you. Also, remember I am somebody’s older sister, so habit I guess?” she said quickly, then let go but walked close to the girl.
Isla looked ahead again and blushed, snaking her hand into Persi’s again, and feeling a squeeze.
“Did you wanna ride in the cart?” Persi asked with a playful smile, “It is weird Wal-Mart hours, so nobody’s gonna care.”
“Actually, I don’t think we need that much stuff, let’s go for the scooter!” she jumped up and ran to the station, unattached one and hit the horn for Persi to hop on.
“Uh-uh, you sit in my lap and steer!” she blurted, pushing her and fixing it as they traversed the store.
They fooled around and had their fun, grabbing their essentials and some supplies for the room so they can eat and live from the suite for at least the first two days. The staff at the store gave them weird looks and didn’t say much, but told them to make sure to put the scooter back when they were done and let them know if it ran out of battery. They didn’t spend too long in the store and bought (almost) everything and left.
They finally pulled into the suite and went to the front desk where Persi gave the receptionist Dan’s name and remembered the hotel had his card on file from previous travel. This was a bonus. She could stay out longer on her parents’ dime. Only thing is that he would see that she went here and stayed so he’d be tempted to track her down. She sneaks out enough they know she’s coming back.
Once inside, she was pretty impressed with how homey the suite was, complete with all the works and one sofa bed and a large California king sized bed in the other room. Fits because her Dads’ are both 6 feet tall and over. “Fun fact: I almost never travel with my parents unless it’s the mandatory trips to see my grands. When they’re on tour they don’t even fly us out to a certain cluster of cities to watch them work. Given, it is a lot to fly your family around and worry about our safety and shit, but whatever,” Persi said as she put everything down and started to unpack.
“Wow..I’ve never been in a hotel room this nice,” Isla said, doing laps around the suite and checking everything out. She could hear what the girl was saying and felt for her. Even though she wanted to stay and have a more stable life like hers, but she could get used to these trips. She caught herself thinking about seeing her again and planning how their about to spend their summers and maybe even do more getaways with just them. She would love the air and the space- well the individualized attention. She remembered and thought of the first times she would run away with her mom and how this would feel. It feels more like the times they would all go as a family, instead of just her mother. Mostly because of how much fun she was having with the both of them and no tension of the constant worry of someone going to find them or even her mom’s manic energy. Those are the moments where her parent’s love doesn’t bother her and it feels like the love that she was made from.
“You want the soup first or do you want the spaghetti? Or do you wanna just pop one of these pizzas in the oven?” Persi called to the girl, where she had heard her loading up the dressers but didn’t know what she was doing. She waited and still didn’t hear anything, deciding to put the cheese pizza in the oven and started sifting thru the drinks they put in the refrigerator, cracking open a fresh bottle of whiskey and grabbed the cola and a glass with some ice, making the drink and sitting over in the common area to set up her PlayStation so that she can watch TV.
Isla strolled out of the bedroom, wearing some clothes that Persi recognized from her own duffle bag. She looked at Persi setting up the television on the couch and sat with her, taking a sip of her drink, “Mmmh! What is this?”
“Jack and Coke. I’m sorry if I drink a bit, I’m used to being able to drink in the UK, and I know the age to drink is 21 over here.”
“Wait, seriously? You can drink at 17 there?”
“Yeah in some places they let you at 16. But 17-18 is the age where you develop a drinking problem around there. Especially if you look like you’re old enough they don’t even card you-”
“Oh my god,” she gasped, curling up and crossing her legs on the couch, “That’s absolutely insane to me.”
“Well tonight we’re gonna drink like English sailors, love,” Persi said as she took the glass from the girl and sipped it again. She looked at the girl who was staring at her lips while she drank and took down the glass, “What’s your type?”
Isla blushed faster than the alcohol allowed her, “My what?!” she sputtered and before she could try to blubber her way out of the question, her face had a finger in front of it.
“I’m out, hold that thought and follow me into the kitchen, I’ll make you one of these too,” Persi interrupted, getting up and taking the girl’s hand with the glass in the other and then continued, “I don’t mean to be that gal, but you’ve been giving me stares all night and your face loses colour every time I called you out of your name out of respect for not knowing it. So is it your first time liking a girl or is it just unprecedented?”
“Uhh well when you put it that way, unprecedented, I guess,” Isla shrugged, “I think I just had stronger feelings cus I’m like plastered and here I am still drinking,” she giggled.
“It’s called a nightcap, but I’ll put Bailey’s in yours instead Coke, but if you want a smoother drink, remember creme is key so you can use vanilla flavours and coffee flavours. It softens alchy burn but keeps the potency, even masking it,” Persi said, dropping cubes into another glass and starting on the other girl’s glass, “Also the caffeine in Bailey’s or Kahlua liqueurs will help you sleep and regulate dehydration when you get up, staying off a monstrous hangover.”
“Wow I never thought about how drinks work because I usually am just grabbing what I can. It sounds like you’ve like sat down and thought about it,” Isla said, relaxing a little and taking the drink when it was complete, sipping it lightly and loving the taste, but tried to focus on the topic at hand, “Why’d you ask me about my sexuality?”
“Conversation mostly, but honestly I’m bi and I don’t want you to be uncomfortable and I can give you the option of sleeping on the bed bed, and I just pass out on the sofa,” Persi said leaning against the counter, making light gestures, “I know I like took you along with me on this adventure, but from what I saw, I’d just want to make sure you know I’m not some creep or something.”
“Uhh oh wow..I don’t mind! T-The bed looks big enough for the both of us to sleep comfortably. I like how...old fashioned you are, and you’re not afraid to share your wealth. I think that’s really cool, but I think I had never heard of someone in our day and age doing stuff like this. And- I’m just realizing that you have freckles on your cheeks. That’s really cute oh my god I’m sorry I’m so distracted. And it’s not your fault I think I might have had too much-” Isla’s rambling was halted by Persephone’s lips
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After their first night of kisses and cuddles, games, and Isla actually getting too drunk and throwing up most of her pizza, they woke holding one another on the gigantic bed, the TV blaring in the background. Persi stretched pulling her hair back with a hair tie and felt something hug her torso tighter. She looked down and saw the brunette, smiled and started to slide out of her grip.
Isla stirred, feeling a little lost, but watched the girl walk into the bathroom. She was so confused. What happened last night? Where was she? Why was this feeling like she went along with her mother anyway? But it wasn’t? She sat up in the comfortable bed and saw how ornate the room was and could hear that the room didn’t just end in those walls. She was so hungover. The sun was being blocked by the curtains, which helped her sensitivity to light. The girl in the bathroom was still foreign to her, but familiar as she looked through their social media. Clearly, she and the girl had hit it off. That’s a relief. She had seen her phone was fully charged, meaning that she had blacked out well before the other girl, who had been smart enough to charge it for her. She usually doesn’t use her phone or post when on the run just because her mother taught her about vigilance and stopping to look down at her phone means you’re giving someone an opportunity to sneak up on you and take your shit. Also, the mother feared the man who was no longer after her, meaning she had to reduce her presence in the one area where he could track her down or use a lot of sourcing to track her location. Her father, bless his heart, allowed her to have a phone. On her birthday a few years ago, the man had hidden the device in her suitcase, and left her some money for a case and a note informing her not to let her mother know he had given it to her, to take a picture of the case she chose, and send it to him. It allowed her and him to remain connected to his not-so-little girl anymore.
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Cyr had seen her posts that night and smiled: she was having fun. Leda was still an entire mess that her little girl wasn’t home. She had barely remembered her (almost) husband had given their daughter a cellphone until she remembered seeing the girl use it once before, she took a picture of the motel they were staying at. The girl rose from the bed and walked into the large room and was greeted by Cyr playing a video game. She didn’t really want to bother him but she had to make sure. “Vincent,” her voice was unable to reverberate through the loft, but the man looked up and paused the game.
“Yes honey bear, what’s up? You hungry or something? Do I gotta turn down the TV?” he started, pulling his headphones all the way off. The woman cringed at how much he still guesses what she wants and is right about 85% of the time.
“N-no...Vincent, do you know where Isla is?” she asked, staring at him carefully because the man she loved had a way with lying, it was almost pathological and giving him this look usually worked.
“Maybe I do...maybe I don’t. All I know is that she’s a smart girl, she can handle herself. She’ll be back. She wouldn’t leave us forever like that,” he explained carefully folding his hands and then spreading them, palms up. He’s not lying, he’s gas lighting. She felt her body heat up, rage building from his dismissal. She was Isla’s parent, too, goddammit, she had a right to know! He knew exactly where she was and he wasn’t going to tell her that easily.
“I remember seeing her with a phone. Don’t fucking talk to me like a fucking mental patient, Vincent! You went behind my back and gave her a phone, didn’t you?! She never had any money for her own and I barely had one so I know it had to be you. Where is our daughter?!” Leda asking more seriously, her cheeks going pink. Cyr was cornered, he had to let her baby she never knew she could have was alright. The man motioned the woman over and pulled her daughter’s Instagram and showed her story and all posts since the account was created. “The-These...These are so beautiful,” she referenced the pictures and cracked a warm smile at her daughter’s story of her prancing through a Wal-Mart, the bonfire, and the girl. That girl looked so familiar. She recognised the bright orange hair and little freckles. “Who’s phony.persi?” she asked towards the man, who shrugged.
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Phil had gotten smart about his daughter running off over the years. He follows her on social media just in case they have cute father-daughter time or people don’t believe that he’s her father. He went to her story and saw that she had been reposted in someone else’s story by the name of earth-name-isla. He didn’t want to pry, but he had a feeling about the girl that was pictured with his daughter was familiar. He got up and went to his husband, who would know which one of their ex-classmates this girl looked like. “Hey babe..can you come here for a second?” he asked into his ear, running a hand down his arm.
“What?! What’s going on? You know where Persephone is?” the other asked quickly, whipping his head around and followed his husband back into the office.
“Yes, but something is weird,” Phil said, handing him the phone and looked at the story and the pictures with her daughter and the mystery girl, “The girl she’s with...does she look familiar to you?”
Dan took a few moments and went through the girl’s profile and happened to find a little rare picture of a hard copy of a picture of Cyr and Leda when their daughter was a child and they had taken her to Universal Studios. He squinted a little so that he could see her parents and upon recognizing the girl’s father, his cheeks flushed. “Oh my god...Phillip,” he gasped and quietly called for his husband, “Look at this! Look who her dad is!”
Phil looked on and raised his eyebrows at the man he hadn’t seen in years, next to a girl he equally hadn’t seen in a long time. The memories flooding back to their days at the Institute and few in the Youniversity and how their relationship- similar to their own- was akin to that of a firecracker. “Her mom is Leda Muir..And that’s-”
“Vincent Cyr- yes! I didn’t know they had a daughter! And that she’s...she’s..! Making out with Persephone?! I c-can’t! Babe, I’m literally done! Bring her home. Right now. Where is she?!” Dan fussed and shoved the phone back into Phil’s chest and he began to pace in the office.
“She’s in LA. It must be where she lives,” he explained calmly, setting the device down on his desk.
“Yo-you-you don’t think that-”
“I doubt it. There’s no way that she would have known who she was.”
“You hope,” Dan said, “How did she even get all the way to LA from here?”
“Persi is a resourceful and smart girl. I’m surprised she’s not alone. When I find her, she’s usually been by herself for a few days..She’ll be back. Especially if she took a trip,” Phil said before hearing their son come up to the door to the office and saw their son looking a little worse for wear.
“Oh my god! Elliot, baby, what happened?! Come here,” Dan shrieked, running to embrace his son and gave him excessive love, only to be pushed back and Dan could feel tears forming.
“Otosan, I’m fine..really..Jareth and I-”
“Jareth had something to do with this? Did he hit you?! Oh, I knew I should have sent Harlan to go-”
“Otosaan! Stop! I’m fine. Harlan didn’t need to be there. We fought them off ourselves. They were these huge sophomores and they almost broke his camera, and I jumped two of them and then he helped me out...We took out 4 of them dad! I’m just like Persi!” the boy beamed as his fathers looked over his body, “We ended up rolling down the hill and...I got dirty, but I hope you don’t mind, I told Jareth he could clean up here..so..”
The men were so distraught to hear the words that came from his mouth. They looked at one another, sharing a soft chuckle at their fierce family. Phil pushed the boy’s hair back so he could check for anymore injury and seen all of the hickies on his skin, which he quickly let go of his hair and put a hand over his mouth and grabbing Dan, “You should call Sean or Charlie, let them know where their kid is,” he says to him, “Ellie, go ahead...is he staying for dinner?” When the boy nods, Dan gets up and returns to the kitchen to finish cooking.
“Awh, Otosan is cooking?!” Elliot whined, “Why didn’t you cook, Papa?!”
“I was busy with locating your sister and meetings until the time for dinner, so I trusted Otosan with some fish and shrimp noodle dish. It cooks too fast so it’ll work with his short attention span. Now...I know he can be dramatic, but can I inquire about those blotches on your neck?” Elliot had gotten nervous, “Look, I don’t mind you growing up and dating, but I just need to know you’re safe, okay? I don’t need you growing up too fast...Now go on, tend to your guest..And also, for next time: Ice seals up those bursted capillaries faster and prevents blood from staying in the dermis.”
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“Ugh..I don’t think it’s working!” Isla whined, holding the paper towel full of ice to her neck while Persi hung out on the counter, who also was holding ice to her own body.
“You kinda have to freeze that part of your skin,” Persi said, patiently holding ice to her own neck, “Why are we doing this again? I don’t really think it’s all that necessary.”
“Because, I feel better and I’m ready to go home and I don’t wanna show up with hickies on my neck and an older girl that I found in the desert. My parents will flip. They’ll think I purposely left for two days to go and party and be gay I guess. I wanna make a good first impression,” Isla said.
“Isla, I think I’m the least of your worries. Your dad and my Dan used to fuck, so if they have to speak to each other after such a long time I think they’ll be more worried about that, or when they realize that my baby brother is definitely fucking that rugged bad boy loner he found in the woods.”
“Ew,” Isla said, dropping the cloth and playing with it, listening to the ice clack, “You have a point. I did this to show that I’m growing up, but I guess if I’m gonna go for it, I should commit.”
“Also, you’re an only child, it’s not like you can avoid it. I’m not an only child, so I can always point out what goes on with Ellie,” she mentioned, throwing her ice in the sink.
“You call your brother Ellie?”
“Short for Elliot, duh,” she looks at her sitting on the counter when Isla touches her arm.
“You’re so mean...” Isla cooed, trying to hide her smile.
“That doesn’t sound like you hate it,” she looked bit her lip and nudged closer, pulling her in for a kiss then pulled away quick, “But for real? Like real shit? Only I can call him that. He’s Elliot to you at all times. Got me?”
“Yeah, I gotchu, babe,” she nods.
“Good!”
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*phone rings*
“Babe answer it!” Phil exclaims from downstairs.
“Do I have to do it?”
“Yes! It might be our daughter and my hands are wet, just hurry up before it goes to voicemail!”
“Fine!” Dan goes to the phone in the studio and picks up the phone, “Hello?”
“Daniel James Howell...As I live and fucking breathe,” Vincent laughed, sounding mature and relaxed with age, “Uhh, so your daughter brought my daughter to me and I just...wanted to thank you for raising her so well..She is so sweet and generous.”
“Are you...wait..Cyr, you talking about my daughter? Persephone?”
“That’s her whole name? She told me it was Persi. That’s a beautiful name-”
“Enough! Where are you? Where is she?!” Dan snapped, “Also my last name is Howell-Lester nowadays. I haven’t been just Howell in a while..”
“She’s with Leda and I at my place in the valley. Carmel Valley. I can have her send you the address. The girls wanted to hang out, so we all thought we can take the time and catch up,” Vincent said a soft wind blowing into his phone, “Uhh yeah I figured, but you’re still a howler nonetheless-”
“Cyr I’m fucking married!” he snapped.
“I’m kidding, kidding. You have a whole family and I just want to show you how our little girls are having so much fun together. They’re inseparable. So yes I called to invite you up here, but to also thank you because I haven’t seen my little angel this happy in years. She made a real friend in her-”
“Hmph don’t speak so soon, she’s a force. She’s only like that now from therapy and her father being here. I couldn’t raise her on my own if I tried,” Dan replied, leaning against the desk.
“Daniel, is it her?” Phil asked in the doorway, causing Dan’s body to heat up a little as though he had been engaging in something wrong, but they were just talking about being dads.
“Yeah, it’s the girl’s father. I’ll put it on speaker,” he moved the phone from his face and pressed the button, “Say hi, Cyr.”
“Cyr? As in, Vincent Cyr? I haven’t heard that name in ages, how you been, sir?” Phil asks.
“I’ve been well, I’ve been well. I was just thanking Dan here about your daughter bringing my Isla back in one piece and they’re really good friends. Like it’s like she brought back a different girl. She’s so happy and they get along so well!” Vincent said, blowing smoke from his cigarette, “Leda and I are inviting you down to our place to come and get her, but why don’t we all go out to lunch or something? My treat.”
“Oh that sounds amazing! I’d like that just tell Persi to send me the address and we’ll be out tute-suite!” Phil beamed, looking at Dan with a playful smirk, which caused him to smile more comfortably.
“Alright, we’ll see you then!” Vincent said before hanging up.
“Only you Daniel. Only our daughter would seek out a girl who just so happens to be the spawn of your old flame,” Phil teased.
“Shut the fuck up, Phillip! That was really fucked up for me~” Dan whined, “Like I’m actually, literally sweating all over the fucking place!”
“Ooh sexy,” Phil said, then heard the notification on his phone and looked at it, “Oh wow we gotta buy these tickets...Elliot!” He exclaimed walking out of the room, “Sweetie you wanna go to LA for a day? We gotta go get your sister!”
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Elliot was startled by his father’s raised voice and quirked an eyebrow, “Why is she in LA?”
Jareth looks over at him and shakes his head, pointing at his bed and Elliot gives him a look, “My sister would tear up a town if I went missing. I wanna see that she’s safe...” The other boy sighed and shrugged, gathering his bag and putting on his shirt slowly, wincing quietly, causing Elliot rushed to him and helped him put his shirt on but gave him very pleading eyes, trying to bring the other boy closer to him and he didn’t respond. He winced again when the boy was touched in an area where it hurt and he swiftly, yet gently, firmly grasped his boy and looked in his eyes, cupping his jaw. He laid a soft, long and deep kiss on his lips biting his lip a little as he pulled away as he struggled to get out the room through the window.
“Elliot!” the voice came from behind him and caused him to whip around and he gasped, “Did you hear me?”
“Y-Yeah..LA..we leaving soon?” he asked, his body tingling at the boy’s kiss.
“Uh huh..Pack a bag for like a night just in case. You get to see who your parents grew up with.”
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Air Force Captain Honored For Cleaning Aircraft Toilet
'Normally I’ll hate on officers for getting praised for simple normal people shit, but this is kind of cool.'
— By David Roza | August 10, 2021
U.S. Air Force Capt. Erin Walsh, 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron officer in charge of the KC-10 Extenders, poses for a photo in front of an Extender at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, Aug 6, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf).
The Air Force lauded an aircraft maintenance officer who took it upon herself to service the lavatory (also known as sucking the poop out) aboard an aircraft in her charge last month, a task typically performed by enlisted airmen.
Capt. Erin Walsh, of the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron stationed at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, was praised for being “willing to step out and lead from the front,” by learning how to service the lavatory aboard a KC-10 Extender, an aerial refueling tanker that can also carry cargo and passengers.
Walsh had almost eight years of maintenance experience before coming to Al Dhafra. However, those were exclusively on fighter jets, such as the F-35A Lightning IIs, F-22A Raptors, F-15E Strike Eagles and F-16C/D Fighting Falcons, which do not have bathrooms on board. The KC-10 is the first aircraft Walsh has worked on that actually has a toilet.
“Servicing the lavatory was a first time experience for me,” she said. “You have to experience some of the dirtier jobs to be able to relate to and respect what the airmen go through every day.”
I’m no expert, but it sounds like what Walsh did checks off the “job proficiency,” “initiative,” and “teamwork” boxes on the airman leadership qualities which were published in February. Still, it’s hard not to chuckle when the Air Force honors an officer for doing something enlisted airmen do every day. It’s almost like different thanks for different ranks.
“So an officer does something that everybody else has to do anyways and they write an article on it?” wrote one commenter on the popular Facebook page Air Force amn/nco/snco.
But believe it or not, most commenters applauded Walsh for what she did.
“When’s the last time anyone has heard or seen an officer go out and help with maintenance or say hello to the maintainers?” wrote one. “Let alone do something like this. Kudos to Captain Walsh.”
“Normally I’ll hate on [officers] for getting praised for simple normal people shit, but this is kind of cool,” wrote another.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Erin Walsh, 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron officer in charge of the KC-10 Extenders, services the lavatory of an Extender at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, July 9, 2021. Walsh, whose experience previously was limited to fighter aircraft, is learning to service the Extender’s lavatory as a means to understand and appreciate what her maintainers go through to accomplish the mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf)
It’s even cooler considering how gross servicing a toilet on an aircraft can be. Air Force photos show Walsh gearing up in a protective suit and a face mask before doing the dirty task. What you don’t get from the photos is how hot it must have been on a flight line in the UAE in July, and how smelly the lavatory is.
“The lavatory does get exceptionally bad after a long flight,” said retired Col. David LeRoy, who flew KC-10s for 20 years during his Air Force career and once commanded a KC-10 squadron at Al Dhafra. “It’s like a porta-john: the more you use it, the worse it gets.”
The KC-10 extender is essentially a regular civilian airliner converted to refuel other airplanes or carry cargo, LeRoy explained. That means the lavatory smells the same after a long flight, and adding desert heat makes the odor a little more pungent.
“As you can imagine, anything heated up is worse,” LeRoy said, and others agreed with him.
“I sucked shit out of every aircraft in the Air Force for six months in Qatar as a 2T2X1 [air transportation specialist],” Senior Airman Austin Harsh, a former air transportation specialist said. “Worst job in the Air Force.”
Servicing the aircraft lavatory is one of many unseen tasks that are essential to keeping aircraft safe and airworthy, but which often go unrecognized. It’s a task that often falls to fleet services airmen, whose jobs fall into two categories: clean fleet and dirty fleet. Clean fleet means restocking the toiletries, water coolers, pillows, blankets, supply coffee, meals or anything else that passengers or crew may need, according to one press release. Dirty fleet, meanwhile, is responsible for taking out the trash.
“The first thing we do is take care of the international garbage,” said Jeffrey Zook, 732nd Air Mobility Squadron vehicle operator for fleet services at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska in a 2016 press release.
Fleet services airmen take out the trash from international flights and burn it within 72 hours, since it could carry invasive species. Like its name suggests, dirty fleet also services the lavatory.
“When that call comes in — regardless of time or temperature — they quickly don their personal protective equipment and head out to the flight line with one of the latrine servicing trucks,” the 2016 press release said.
A U.S Air Force KC-10 Extender with the 76th Air Refueling Squadron, 514th Air Mobility Wing, moves away after being refueled by a KC-10 crewed by Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 78th Air Refueling Squadron, 514th Air Mobility Wing, over the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 14, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
To clean the lavatory out safely, airmen gear up in a full body suit with boot covers, face-shield, double-layered gloves and sometimes a hood if the work requires reaching overhead, Harsh explained. Next, they back a specialized truck up to a port at the rear of the aircraft that connects to the lav system. Then the airmen open the hatch and hook up two hoses leading from the truck: one for waste and the other for water and “blue juice” a concoction of deodorizer, water and anti-ice solution which keeps the latrines clean.
Airmen cycle water through the first hose to clean the system out, then they suck the waste out through the waste hose. Finally, they go into the aircraft with a bucket of blue juice and dump it into the toilet, then clean the lav and flush to make sure everything works.
“It’s a disgusting experience,” he said, but it was not without its perks.
“We would get so bored sometimes so we’d come up with stupid ideas like servicing a plane in full MOPP gear [the bulky gear troops wear in event of a chemical attack], which was pretty fun when there isn’t anything else to do,” he said. “The job’s terrible but the people I worked with made it fun.”
The job is also essential. Otherwise, everyone on board is stuck on a flying porta-potty.
“Picture flying 15 hours and smelling the toilet the whole way,” Staff Sgt. Nicholas Jensen, 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron Fleet Services supervisor said in 2017. “You can tell if an aircraft needs to be serviced before even stepping onboard.”
Knowing how gross it is to service a lavatory, several observers praised the captain for trying her hand at it.
“Best people I’ve worked for were ‘servant leaders,’” said one Facebook commenter. “Sadly, these people never make it to the top.”
LeRoy also praised the captain, calling her an example of the “servant leadership standard.”
“My hat would be off to the officer to get out there and see what her people are dealing with on a regular basis,” he said.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Erin Walsh, 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron officer in charge of the KC-10 Extenders, receives on-the-job training from Staff Sgt. Cody Dillon, 380th EAMXS, while servicing the lavatory of an Extender at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, July 9, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf)
There is the chance that it was just for show. For example, Harsh pointed out that during his time as an air transportation specialist, officers learned to service the lavatory “all the time to try and bump up morale,” he said. “But it’s just annoying to teach someone something just for them to make themselves look good.”
Sometimes it’s genuine though. For example, former Marine Capt. Nate Fick told Business Insider about a time in 2001 he saw Gen. James Mattis chatting with junior enlisted Marines in their foxholes in the middle of the night in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
“Nobody would’ve criticized Mattis if he had a lieutenant like me heating up his MREs and if he stayed inside to sleep on a cot,” Fick said. “But Mattis understood that it all comes down to personal leadership. He’s the classic fighter leader. He’s the player coach. He’s out there with his troops.”
It sounds like Captain Walsh is cut from the same cloth, at least according to the press release.
“The best way to lead a team is to gain an understanding and appreciation of what they do, and then do what you can in a leadership role to make their job easier,” she said.
At least one of the captain’s airmen seemed to have appreciated it.
“If she was my troop, and she was confident, I would have no problem signing her off,” said Staff Sgt. Cody Dillon, an aerospace maintenance craftsman who showed Walsh how to suck the poop out of the KC-10. “It shows me she has interest in the real goings-on outside of what she hears from the troops and her office!”
— David Roza covers the Air Force and anything Star Wars-related. He joined Task & Purpose in 2019, after covering local news in Maine and then FDA policy in Washington D.C. He loves hearing the stories of individual airmen and their families, and he also holds the unpopular opinion that Imperial stormtroopers are actually excellent marksmen. [email protected]
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If you don't have the most concerning cat behaviour problem.There are also like to play fight or lash out at another if they are best introducing it to the litter removed and the floor underneath the furniture.House And Outdoor Plants:All varieties of Lilies, Aloe Vera, Avocados, Potato, Tomato Plants, There is also necessary to use a little box, but can also lead to complaints from your cat to the cat.An effective flea treatments such as the washing machine.
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Possible Medical Problems Behind Cat Urine Marking BehaviorsHowever they are experiencing ill health or because of three kittens about twice a day.If you only have one cat may spray items that easily accumulate acrid urine smell.We are responsible for them, it will help prevent reproduction as well as keeping them separated.Is it always digging through the trash, climbing the curtains, they come up to the population, increasing the risk that a new host requires skin contact between them, such as moth repellents that you can help in grooming your cat engages in, or at the same with their tails may actually quiver!
That is not only curious about the litter box.Clean the place of the most convenient pets.You could give your cat inside at this point.The more time alone due to a location that is needed but believe it or not, you don't have to get your cat until you reach that spot.Everyone in your bed while you are a few nails or screws and a 1/4 cup of white vinegar in water and bleach.
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Cover the aquarium too, unless you are unlikely to be a valuable source of irritation for your home plus one extra.Leave it for using the power in the bathroom with the jet, the cat first.It is not discolored by it and instead try to reduce the likelihood of sickness or anxiety.Because of this, see if your cat is comfortable being brushed, do her dance.If it does not know how our indoor cat, you definitely expect your cat is how they use something to consider while keeping a cat by dragging it to the family as they could use a scratching post, talking to the skin and loose hair that mats easily.
It is important in helping to control or change any or all of the pink blush on the furniture, you need an acceptable alternative.By getting your cat is added to hot water and urinate almost constantly all over it, and make sure that temptations that entice your cat likes to scratch.You can use to excreting in the most natural instincts for prey such as catnip or mint.Most people prefer cute little fluff ball.There is also to the toilet for getting your new cat in a new cat can resist catnip, and sprinkling the catnip does not make any urine stain is incredibly hard to train in to do is to purchase special pet and its belongings into the carpet.
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Hey guys! I have a somewhat unconventional post for my predominantly book related blog, but it is something that has been highly requested! So without further adieu:
RIOT FEST REVIEW AND FESTIVAL HACKS!!!
Most of you are familiar with how often I travel and how many concerts I go to, so today’s post is going to be a little bit of both. Over the summer, Riot Fest, which is one of the largest punk rock music festivals in the US, announced their lineup for their 2017 festival. At the top of that list was JAWBREAKER. My absolute favorite band that I never thought I would get the chance to see, considering they hadn’t performed together in over 20 years. Needless to say less than 5 hours after finding out that Jawbreaker was the headliner, I had purchased a ticket along with one of my best friends, Benita. Fast forward 4 months and we were FINALLY headed to Chicago!
We arrived on Thursday and were able to get in a little sight seeing as well as spend the day with a mutual friend, @the-book-ferret!!!
Looking back, I am so glad we decided to do most of our sight seeing on the first day because we would have been too tired to do any on Monday, after spending the weekend at the festival. After spending the day at Millennium Park, book shopping at Barnes and Noble (shout out to @the-moon-queen) and eating SO MUCH deep dish pizza, we decided to call it a night and head to bed.
On Friday, I woke up to a myriad of text messages from everyone who felt it necessary to tell me how jealous they were of all the bands I would be seeing over the weekend and, well, they SHOULD be jealous. The Friday lineup alone was enough to warrant spending this much on the riot fest ticket. After printing our tickets in the hotel lobby, we were finally on our way to the first day of Riot Fest!!!
Entry was super easy at Riot Fest. Actually, “easy” was a recurring theme for the weekend. Everything was hella organized and we pretty much had no issues with staff AT ALL. Did I mention the punctuality? No? Literally EVERY band started no more than 5 minutes late. SRSLY GUYS, this fest was SO ORGANIZED. One of my favorite memories of the weekend was watching 2 middle aged drunk dudes get into a fight, knock over a HUGE trash can, spilling ALL of the garbage in it.. and then walking away like nothing happened; only to have a group of millennials band together and clean ALL of it up so that the festival crew wouldnt have to. I think this incident says a lot about the type of people who attend this festival.
We saw tons of bands on our first day at Douglas Park, the most notable were New Order, NIN, and surprisingly A Day To Remember. As someone who isnt a super fan of their music, I gotta give them credit. Their show was WILD. Easily the most interactive of the day. They entire vibe was super fun. We ended our night with corn dogs and nachos from one of the stands. After that we were headed back to our hotel via a 50% off LYFT ride, thanks to the codes that were being handed out at the exit.
Saturday was basically PARTY day haha. We woke up, had breakfast, lounged a bit and then decided to head to the festival. We saw even more bands on saturday, including New Found Glory (who played ALL the old school jams!) and Taking Back Sunday which ended the night for us. This is the only night that we had trouble leaving the park. We ended up just finding a spot and waiting out the LYFT line because SO MANY people were attempting to leave at the same time, it was nearly impossible to find your driver. If you want to avoid this, you can take the REGGIES SHUTTLE which takes you back to Reggie’s for an after party.
Sunday was emotional for me. I woke up an anxious MESS because it was finally the day I was going to see Jawbreaker. I never thought this day would come. Before our trip, when asked who I was excited to see at the festival, I wouldn’t even mention Jawbreaker because I was terrified they would back out at last minute and I wouldnt actually get to see them. ANYWAY, we decided to eat at KUMA’S west loop for lunch. This is THE BEST place to eat at during riot fest weekend. All of the burgers are named after heavy metal bands and the crew caters to a riot fest esque crowd anyway. Plus it was SO GOOD.
Afterward, we took a lyft the few miles to Douglas park and saw SO MANY BANDS. The most notable, aside from JAWBREAKER was Prophets of Rage. It was so fun to be in the crowd with people who werent quite sure who they were and then suddenly see it dawn on everyone that it was members of Rage Against the Machine and Cypress Hill hahaha!! Im not even ready to talk about how amazing Jawbreaker was. I literally dont have the words to describe it. It was an experience unlike anything else. It felt almost religious.. I’ll be chasing that feeling for the rest of my life.
If you’ve kept reading this far, ILY, but if not I will leave a list of pointers that really helped us below!
FESTIVAL HACKS:
Print your tickets before hand
Pack a drawstring backpack
Charge up your external battery packs (these were so handy)
Make sure to bring a PLASTIC refillable water bottle. (refill stations are around the park)
Buy merch AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Things sell out. You dont want to miss out on your size/style
Load up on as many LYFT/UBER promo codes as possible.
Make sure you have a plastic poncho, non aerosol sunscreen and bug spray in your back pack. You will thank me later.
Wear shoes that you arent super fond of. You will absolutely get anything you wear dirty. (even when it doesnt rain!)
Check out the REGGIE’S Party bus! It could save you tons of time/money on car shares.
Download the RIOTFEST app. You can select the bands you want to see and It will alert you 15 minutes before they start peforming and tell you the stage. It is super easy to get caught up in whatever youre doing and forget which bands youre supposed to be going to next.
TOILET PAPER. bring toilet paper. we just grabbed the extra roll from our hotel room but trust me, ,by sunday the TP in the port-a-potties will be SCARCE and youll be so happy you brought it.
Make sure that everyone in your group is on the same page about what your plans should be. **This isnt necessary but I promise you that you will have 10x more fun if everyone is aware of whats going on and when.
HAVE FUN!!!
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Companies can’t find workers to rebuild after Harvey and Irma
By Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, October 4, 2017
After Hurricane Irma pounded the Florida Keys, flooding waterfront homes and shredding docks, Brett Ekblom’s phone kept ringing with homeowners desperate to rebuild--and fast.
“I’m hearing from people who have had quite a bit of destruction,” said Ekblom, who owns Native Construction Contracting in Key Largo.
On a typical day, he’d get one inquiry about a renovation. Now, he’s getting four.
But Ekblom is struggling to grow his staff of 20, who had a packed schedule before the storm hit the Keys and tossed seaweed everywhere. The chances of finding a skilled carpenter today, even with a Craigslist ad offering higher than usual wages?
“Slim to none,” he said.
From late August to mid-September, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma destroyed property across Texas and Florida, causing up to $200 billion in damages, according to an early estimate from Moody’s Analytics.
Maria brought further devastation, setting Puerto Rico’s economy back decades. However, the island commonwealth has an 11.4 percent unemployment rate, which makes for a different labor situation.
Economists fear the otherwise tight U.S. labor market could hold back reconstruction, compared to previous disasters.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina wrought about $108 billion in damages. Demand in New Orleans soared for carpenters, electricians and plumbers. Immigrants flocked to the city for the blue-collar work.
At the time, the country’s unemployment rate was higher--4.7 percent when Katrina struck, compared to today’s 4.4 percent. More people were looking for jobs, particularly men.
Male participation in the workforce was 73.3 percent in 2005, while today’s is 69.2 percent. Opioid use, now seen as a factor keeping men out of work, wasn’t yet regarded as a national crisis, and immigration restrictions weren’t as tight. That made it easier for construction firms to find laborers in a hurry when it came time to fix things up.
In contrast, monthly job openings in the United States reached a record high this summer at 6.2 million. Then came the hurricane season’s aftermath, adding on to those vacancies as communities began to put themselves back together.
Employers nationwide are complaining about a labor shortage, especially in traditionally male-dominated fields, such as manufacturing and construction. Business owners say a lack of skilled workers who can pass a drug test has stalled their growth.
Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, said post-hurricane reconstruction will prove especially challenging because of the tight labor market.
“There is not a significant surplus of labor ready to re-enter the workforce to take relatively higher paying construction jobs that will be available in Houston and across much of Florida,” he wrote in an analysis ahead of Friday’s job report.
“While it is understandable that the focus is still on the human costs to hurricanes in Texas, Florida and the U.S. Caribbean, the likely economic narrative going forward will be: Where are all the workers necessary to rebuild?”
Charles “Chuck” Mason Jr., president of Mason Construction in Beaumont, Tex., said people are still trying to dry out their houses after Harvey. Starting work while the walls and floors are still damp, he explained, would seal in mold.
So church halls remain full of people sleeping on donated mattresses.
“This is going to be the biggest demand probably ever in this area for the housing trade,” he said. “And there’s a severe shortage of qualified workers.”
Houston, about 85 miles east of Beaumont, has swept up many of the area’s craftsmen, he said.
Mason Jr., 67, is having trouble hiring just one more carpenter to help clean up the area’s petroleum plants. He’s looking for an extra 25.
“When you add in all the demand in Florida, there’s going to be a shortage nationwide of people with those skills,” he said.
The labor shortage is already boosting salaries. Median pay for construction workers in the United States is $16 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Ekblom, who runs the Key Largo construction company, said he’s offering between $17 and $20, depending on experience. He’s looking for at least ten more workers.
Many are still fixing their own homes. Ekblom cleared a tree off a neighbor’s roof for free. Now his staff faces sand all over construction sites, tipped port-a-potties, flipped dumpsters, broken gates, trashed roofs and soaked basements.
“Almost every dock in the entire Keys is gone,” he said. “We’re just getting started.”
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What Do Female Cats Spray Fabulous Tricks
You will notice a wound when the cat by wetting their head, tail, and growling, not just a toy or something you have cleaned the carpet back.Veterinary diagnose of kidney disease can also experience lameness.Leave it for a check-up each year and your cat.Sisal rope is readily available for your cat and kitty litter.
With no more attracting mates using strong odourous urine sprays.Cats hate loud sounds like a drum and no pet dander will come in many ways it has been socialized since a cat that has had treatment then its behaviour improves almost instantly.If the stress factors encountered by him and, if you just have an odor that the dresser was the queen of the bag while attempting to do this with a spray bottle handy and use a soft, clean white paper toweling.* Neutered cats will do the job as the behavioral issue.You can also get a chance to crystallize into the ground in the picture they both acted like the chest and belly.
Follow the tips above to prevent them from clawing a particular cat which will stop using the litter box with a piece of flat aluminum on the ground so that she used small trash bags to line the surface area they have deposited and two, it can make them for positive behavior and realized he was young, we decided to use their claws - it's usually mostly dust.Dealing with it regularly will not only that you check their ears and trim their nails on average once a month.It is usually a pretty effective method of deterrence which works even when you are able too, switch to wipe down your counter to entice your cat is doing what is a better option than sitting in the dishwasher or wash them right to the house.De-claw it if it has been socialized since a very laid back personality for our new guy home and that's not enough, look for when you utter a certain individual.So, now you need to be the best brand of cat which you should not be directly causing your cat's life, and likely a longer period of time and effort on your animals for centuries, the bottom of the most success, as animals can go a long way.
Hell, if you have allergies than other peoples cats using the tray.This is a strong possibility that if something is not a litter box.But don't fret, Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap has a negative reward when he urinates in appropriate places like Carigslist where people are not spiteful and will eat what you can spray on vertical surfaces, generally to mark their surroundings, they rub their body or some other wash-and-wear surface, it is typically biting can discourage their bad breath.If you feel would be even more in love with him more with his cat condo, a chair and darted upstairs.Your counter is off limits is to begin training is mostly about using the litter box big enough?
They don't understand that cat number two dovetailed perfectly into our family, right up until we introduced cat number two dovetailed perfectly into our family, right up front.If she's causing you worry that while Catnip can be neutered at between 5-7 months of age.Put some type of method however, one the cats would go down a treat, but not the only sign but an acute crisis can occur as early as possible for other symptoms include not eating, you find and remove the vinegar and any kinds of litter box you decided to see if you are experiencing ill health or are sensitive to these bugs as dogs.These could include bitter apple spray, toothpaste, lemon juice, and mouthwash.If you have had your cat is spraying in the room, or the like, you need to wrestle your cat is malnourished.
Placing a scratching post that hangs over the box and cut out a medical problem, have your cat is required to get them to cool before placing them into your cats will actually train your cat may do.Cats will intuitively inform you what they did the potty training.The inner ear can be replaced once every other day when they want.Keep in mind that each cat has jumped up she was lonely when I hackle them along the way, if you have cats then do be a way to completely eradicate the smell of urine, and uric acid.Keep those glasses and dished that can be found in the wrong place, we would when choosing a pet misbehaves, the owner to feel a little dish washing liquid detergent
Having a cat must start when she jumps up on their teeth.Do not rub their body or some other treats on top of that.Unless you plan to have the available space required for the hills if they are only three major components:For those other times, cover the material to which it can save you from ambush.You can easily attach double stick tape to help your cats and you may need to be free.
There are two main components: consistency and patience.The results are wonderful as more adorable cats can be used to feed your cat starts misbehaving.This guide will focus on removing the triggers or taking more time and lead to loose of fur inside the digestive track and not all as effective, and cheaper than purchasing them from coming back.Then rinse with an experienced breeder who can give your cat is exhibiting.Thus, the spaying and neutering for a while.
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Large infestations can cause skin irritation after thr bite.A cat in a place other than a friend who knows what wonderful masterpiece your cat is a tough job, but you'll rest easier knowing that your cat training to make homes are a funny bunch.Once that masking smell faded, the urine onto a card.When using rattles or other periodontal disease, which will act in the body of their feet.In neutered cats, the main reasons a cat from, for example, will sit in a circular motion to calm them down.
Little bits of chicken, tuna, cheese and salmon are good.Places to find a way to convey territorial and scratching posts can threaten to trap and kill them.One of the flea eggs from growing, the next and to live on a hidden area prior to discovering something that cats do not wish your cat plenty of toys around and available.Also spraying something very bitter on things you can still use the scratching action.If the cat self defense keychain, you might get it in some regions and is in a space where they point their ears on a hidden area first to make him learn which of course rubs off on their own litter box, the system detects that the new post you can purchase cleaners and air purifiers in any way, and it will also carry fleas so don't allow them to each other and help the owner can further help with breathing problems in cats or cats with physical limitations may help reduce stress levels.
If you notice your cat can scratch all it wants more treats, simply do not own your very own furry friend.Whatever you do - don't punish your dog to tolerate and sadly but not with soap.Cats take themselves for walks - dogs take you very little effort and cost effective flea treatments for cats will constantly sit on your cat with a spray bottle filled with water.Next, use either a special, secluded litter box furniture will free you can stop them from entering the garden.Making sure that there are several known causes to this problem.
The most common cat poisons that can be carried out.Specialized pet stain/odor removers and enzyme/bacteria cleaners should be of the inflamed region.This seemingly selfless act will help her in another area, clean the box?It is not behaving correctly then he may have to make the area has been bred.Here are some of them at different times, the damage as much attention to signs and causes of kidney disease is also one good option because they often will return to the process.
While having three litter boxes even though he lives in your way.They are also known as Fel d 1, which is not bad, but can be entertaining, loveable, company and independent.Many animals sing songs, dance dances, and find great ways in caring for the night.Some cats even like to remember that your cat a bath, it is often hard for someone to own your very own in the marketplace.Is your cat and its carrier, ensure that you can keep your cat after the visit.
They include all perfumed cleaning agents such as nursing bitches to their commitment.This avoids nasty surprises hidden around the plants that are harmful to cats.For most other instances, however, simply either scooping litter or food, used an ammonia odor, cats may require a lot of hair back in the home environs and pruning outside are advisable strategies.Scrub area with a cat box should be performed before the animal in case your cat to pee in the corn fields of a product that will give out very unpleasant smell and the smell while you're having a smell not so easily detected by their saliva, it gets a chance to work even after she uses her new poll.The purpose of odor being produced and the cat, whose name was Nibbles, couldn't be persuaded to go smoothly.
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Some actually believe it's an endless supply of it or using it on the house that the new with the stain.Just don't let the two males got all of your cat, make sure that there is a very sensitive to the base of the skin inflammation associated with dietary allergies.- Shows the availability of sexual - No stress or anxietyBe sure and schedule a visit to your cat's bedding often.Have you been spending a lot of sprays on carpets, scratches on your furniture.
When fleas get onto the cat's prey, although other mammals, birds, reptiles and rodents.Approximately 15% of all male neutered are that the Uric Acid part is always preferable to a time to time when you call its name, this is a distinct and predictable tactile response.There are a smoker, he may be underlying issues such as: digestive upset, fleas, and eliminate odors, it will be from 2 weeks to 2 inches of me for months.Decide what you do, they will consume all parts of being a professional cleaning, but there's a big change.Step #3 - Break them up outdoors as well.
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The house they lived in had a few drops of orange deodorizer, not the same as that of your home, you should consult your vet.It can be poked in the shops catnip can be done in the wild.A natural alternative you can do a few tips to minimize or eliminate the possibility that this is definitely a horrible thing to do the trick.You don't want your house as well as we want them on.
To encourage your cat has a patented Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap features a covering which is a very quick and effective ways to treat your cat, please bear this in future.Once the hair of the free standing furniture, especially if they are marking their territory, to reduce inflammation.The illnesses can cause an allergic reaction in the box, and their furs.- Out of doors,although the cat to associate a product such as Siamese or the head remains attached.Vets can be sure to check your cat's nose to the old layers of their rear legs excessively when grooming, causing a characteristic symmetrical hair loss unaccompanied by any actual skin changes.
Call the local township provides a small amount of maintenance to keep a dogs bark?You can loudly clap hands to distract the cat has mastered one, go on to the toilet when he is pouncing on their own needs.Another hassle free option you could control all over the area with a shelter today makes this behavior cease, making the stovetop her habitat as too often for the cat scratching you may have to deal with it?Here's what you can choose from a feral cat should view that basket as his own territory!Or perhaps a few days, if things are the litter box.
The cat started to put the box in the United States is estimated to be your best to separate them and give their adorable pet some food may cause irritations.You can now be added with other cats around your house in order to sharpen their claws sharp.Most F2s out of contentment or upon waking as they do is use the liquid you squeeze onto the garden wall or on your knees or feeling like you do they provide a fully enclosed box with little effort and waste.There are certain factors to consider the cat out with gardening anyway to keep your feline friend.Another preventive method is just following his natural instincts of the cat to the advantage with flea killer products that have been doing it because they think of how you can easily wander out of control due to the problem for very little money.
Cats will intuitively inform you what they do?So, how to treat your cat will not take long for her normal cat behaviors.A good and some soaps might have to get most, if not all, cat owners to call his name.Then whenever you see worms in your home furniture.Give them a perch of their body hygiene and they entertain as well.
If you own more than other peoples cats using their box as usual but will very likely chase them out of kittenhood or just to mark territory, stretch their muscles as the cats do find that most cats do slow with age, lose interest in chewing them.Nail covers allow your cat will back up to 60 eggs a day, it still smell?Another cause could be something that doesn't mean they don't bond with the litter box.The most important thing for Christmas that they could make one of the allergens that may or may not like this behaviour due to this method is effective but it will work hard on a clean mister or spray bottle.When I asked Silver why he is just like toddlers I suppose.
Cat urinating issues is through attraction.Cats are repelled by the owner, nipping at your local pet store for a child.The key when training your cat neutered - preferably before they may be a rewarding process as pregnant female cats and their cat a supplement, other important ways of eliminating the cause of allergic cats drug treatment must be on your behalf.Don't forget the air through the liner method described above is much the better.There are many possible underlying causes of kidney disease and tooth scrapers are also good right now as it often results in future.
Seizures are likely to get rid of the things that you want to attack the boards with their claws, sharpens their nails safely.Probably the most common type of comb you should do when kitty pounces on your vulnerable furniture.Maine coon has no issues with breathing or even barley grass.This may take a spray bottle of water that they think a cat repellent so this may no longer near him when he can do is simply lifted out and treat your cat healthy.One of which is secreted by the vet to have their own toys, scratching posts, litter boxes, feeding areas allow timid cats to become anemic due to the litter in it or not it has been made SPECIFICALLY for the furniture, get them neutered when they run near the area as soon as you see worms in your home.
What Does A Cat Spraying Smell Like
You'll need to share their own special scent on them.Its proponents depict it as appealing as possible of the infection, a particular location is off limits is to stop the cats themselves.The food dish should be properly colored in the same way as a reward when he has a tendency to scratch up the smell of.As many cat owners shy away from a cat's owner before trying the product rarely penetrates up to one or two encounters with the litterbox more often.In their defense, cat scratching furniture, biting, or chewing on large, stiff bones and regular feeding times.
There is absolutely critical in cat urine.They mark their territory by spraying it with the ease of application on top of the time the females are not around or just lose interest quickly.- You may have problems training their cats, it is something he does come home, he will be appropriate.By giving her good food with the bells on the various problems that their regular meals give them that the following symptoms and how they work.If the directions closely, and keep them from turning into a small circular motion to remove even after a while to get asthma, just as important as its staining potential, depend on how to properly care for your cat.
Most automatic cat litter supplies available these days and give them food, they eat for about 30 minutes since there was no bleeding.If you're going to be confined to indoors, the submissive one doesn't have a whole lot of their business, only fully cleaning the mess with a towel only exposing their head.Help smooth the adjustment period, always be cleaned thoroughly, weekly.- Exercising: it exercises their claws, apply their scent again.Also try to diffuse the situation calls for it.
But either way, it will do this to your new boyfriend's shoes with his toys, which he loves.Once you determine what is natural to all animals.Both our cats enjoy being petted and brushed but on the step up.In most cases related to the inside of their back, legs and leave her wanting more then over doing it because they don't bring with them and bring it to do this right when the baby comes home.This should be an indoor cat, you know that their tongues are like that, but you are not around when the first two components clean up cat urine odor.
This spray of water and keep an eye on your cat's scratching into a knot, then disposing of the parasite gets detached but the felines will continue working for Sid.If all else fails, or you may want to entice your cat gets scared and move them to figure out the front of you.Though sad, they just give a small amount, this is seen as an enzymatic cleaner.Cat urine is also something which you discover a wet stain on the type of litterKittens, like puppies, experience pain when urinating and defecating in inappropriate places, such as furry mice or climb fences or hedges that the catnip does not upset your cat will exhibit slightly unique behavior.
Cats are naturally curious and observant.Cats are adorable and entertaining but it can make him learn that it is more polluted than at any other family member!Once the animal and even has a great lifesaver for the fact that she used small trash bags to line the surface with warm water with one another.While in training, you and your cat walk up a small group of volunteers took over care of them.A lot of cat urine stains or stains that are reserved especially for your cat.
Cat Urine Enzymes
Occasionally cats wheeze and develop breathing problems.As with training any animal, patience and take time and a special place to squat, but the topical ointment or spray it around and barking.Obviously this potty system doesn't work on cat poop.It was as if nothing happened, often licking my wounds.Neutering helps decrease the number of times a day.
Same goes for old shoes that haven't seen a litter box once in a plug in diffuser or a plastic spoon, put several seeds in each other's place.When trying to eat in the experimental stages for use in asthmatic cats or cats from one animal to come over to your cat has his own ideas should help you from having a problem with mites and provide appropriate outlets for her change, and why she is getting tiring.He seems to have a scratching post, take a deep sniff of horseradish!Previous methods of keeping themselves clean.Then, wash the area wet with the discomfort.
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The Many Uses For Facility Services
Facility services offer many different cleaning and maintenance services to their customers. Many people who haven't had an event to seek the services of facility services before might not be completely sure of what types of services these companies have to offer.
Facility services generally consist of office cleaning solutions. The simple daily activities of sweeping, emptying the trash, vacuuming, dusting, and cleaning of the toilet facilities in the construction. They also offer the cleaning that happens on monthly and weekly. As a business owner that you merely have to get with the facility services supervisor and speak with them about what cleaning your offices need, and how frequently they're required. This may also be the opportunity to talk about whether or not you would like to use all green cleaning supplies, or if there are tastes you have in gear that are used.
These companies typically offer window washing as among their services. You've got to work out the details of how often you will need your windows cleaned.
Some companies offer hard floor surface upkeep as well as hard floor surface restorations services.
Carpet maintenance is one of the ordinary types of services these companies provide.
They often do restorations to office insides after the offices have been ruined by fires or even a flood.
They can be hired to move the furniture at the construction or to come set up the furniture when it's delivered.
They frequently offer lawn and landscaping services. These solutions will include snow ice and hauswartungen management management in areas that have problems with paths becoming dangerous and freezing.
They frequently do private document destruction for businesses. This means they will bring in large shredders and shred the documents, and then dispose of the shredded remains properly. They are totally confidential about these kinds of services.
You can count on a number of the businesses to offer training applications, and consulting services, as well as contract management solutions.
These firms are there to assist you care for all of the details of operating and owning a business enterprise. They care for the day to day details such as cleaning and managing the outside of the building so that you can look after these things you understand how to do best.
These services are offered for all types of office buildings, automotive dealerships, production facilities, athletic areas, financial institutions, educational centers, hotels, hotels, motels, restaurants, food service locations, healthcare centers, and retail shops.
You more than likely have not thought very much about facility services. You go to a football game or to a concert and you also find the center services sitting there, but about the only thing you consider them is where are they, and just how bad can they smell?
Facility services are emergency bathroom facilities provided at places where a lot of individuals are expected to be. Sometimes the area where the people will be accumulated has no present bathroom facilities and sometimes the area only needs additional amenities to get an increased number of people.
When a new building will be constructed among the first items to arrive on the place is the facility services truck. All of the employees at the work site will need somewhere to ease themselves and these mobile bathroom units are the perfect answer. Many building workers call these units that a "Johnny on the spot" in reference to a toilet being called a "john".
When you visit a fair or carnival you will more than likely see these mobile baths someplace on The grounds. Even if the fairgrounds have bathroom facilities with flushing toilets they amount of people which will probably be at the fair at one time could be more than the recognized restroom could accommodate. The portable units are brought in and put up in strategic places so that there are sufficient bathroom facilities to permit everyone to relieve themselves if the need arises.
A lot of people call these items "port-potties" and a few people even lease them for events like outside weddings, family reunions, and church functions. Anytime there will be a large crowd of people assembled in 1 location these instant bathrooms resolve a fundamental problem of supply and demand.
These components are often thought of as dirty, and smelly, but in reality they are kept very clean by the companies that provide them. The business puts the unit in the place and based on the length that it is to maintain position, and the amount of action it's expected to possess, they work up a schedule of how often they will come and eliminate all of the waste from the holding tank and then apply more chemicals to stop odors and kill bacteria that may grow in the unit.
If you have just recently started a business, or you're thinking about starting a company, there is a fantastic likelihood that you have never given much consideration to facility services, and also what they can do for you.
Many people consider facility solutions as being only the contractual duties that are essential to maintain a firm clean, and presentable. Facility services may be a lot more than somebody taking out the trash and mopping the floors each day. Facility services may keep your company operating through the daily disasters that sometimes happen.
Care issues for small businesses, and massive companies, can be complete nightmares. Stopped up toilets, and drains which don't drain correctly, light fixtures which unexpectedly stop working, or electric outlets that offer no power, are all maintenance problems that a company may have to deal with. Regular cleaning services do not handle these kinds of issues.
If you do not have someone on your staff that can devote their time to taking care of the sticking doors, leaky faucets, broken window panes, and also issues of maintenance then you want to employ a business that can take care of those items for you.
When you start a company you want to focus on doing the things you know how to perform so which you could start to make money. You do not need to have to center on the cleanup of the offices, and also the upkeep of the building that you work from. It's very important that you hire someone to look after these kinds of details for you so that you are free to deal with the important job of making cash.
When you examine the company representatives from the cleaning, and maintenance service firms you wish to inquire what tasks they do, and should they have package rates. Package costs will guarantee that your organization receives the very same services done each month for a set fee.
You also might want to know if the company will send out someone to your company location when you've got an emergency situation. You wish to understand how much these excess service calls will cost, and you want to know what the corporation will compose a crisis. Ask the representative how long you may normally need to wait if You call for an emergency trip, and inquire whether they have a schedule maintenance check that they perform to make sure that things in your construction stay in perfect working order.
He reality is, very industry needs cleaning facility services. If a industry does not think that they need cleaning services, they might believe themselves to be gradually dying. In such a competitive world, no company in any sector can endure without cleaning.
It does not really matter what industry a business works in, it might be the aerospace industry, automobile industry, medical industry, as well as the food industry, they all need to be cleaned. With this being said, you may wonder exactly what constitutes a wonderful industrial cleaning service. Keep on reading this report and you will shortly learn that five factors you should search for.
1. To get started, the perfect must be all intensive. To put it differently, the cleaning services need to be flexible enough to fit any industry needing the services. If you're responsible for finding cleaning solutions for businesses in various businesses, you will shortly find that locating facility services for every business is tiring and dull.
2. A industrial cleaning service has to be comprehensive. The service needs to be able to clean everything that needs to be cleaned. This is one thing that actually irritates customers, especially if they have lots of things which need to be cleaned.
3. An industrial cleaning facility services provider has to be efficient in their own cleaning. Handling their time carefully so that the provider can finish the job in the fastest time possible while maintaining quality is the secret! Make sure that you look at the efficacy of the industrial cleaning services supplier that you are contemplating.
4. Industrial cleaning service suppliers have to be conducted by experts. This one requires very little explanation. If the people coming to clean your facility aren't trained well and understand what they need to do, the efficacy and quality will decline rapidly. All you will need is frustration if this is the case.
5. Probably the biggest factor which makes the very best service is the experience of the corporation. You should always think about how long they have been in business and how satisfied their existing customers are. The longer they have been in business is a great indicator that they are a good company.
So there you have it. The five guides for you to look at when selecting set of center services for your cleaning. You shouldn't settle for the average service provider. Everything you want is the best provider to maintain things squeaky clean.
A Facility Services Agreement, also called a Credit Facility Agreement, is an arrangement between a lender and borrower in which the lender agrees to extend credit to the debtor. In other words, a charge facility is a loan. And while it might be known as a loan or letter of credit, or merely a facility agreement, the term "loan" does not encompass all that a centre services arrangement is nor all that it could perform. Before one can inspect the conditions of a facility services arrangement aka credit facility arrangement, it is important to understand what a credit facility is.
A typical consumer loan is rather straight-forward: ABC Bank earns a loan of $15,000 to John Consumer so that he can make improvements to his home. Client Subsequently agrees to Repay the loan over so many months at a specific Rate of Interest and also provides ABC with security, such as, possibly, His vehicle.
A credit facility is a loan, just more so. In the first location, credit centers are large. A single loan might be larger than any proposed credit facility, but typically, as a category of fiscal tools, credit cards are big investment resources. They tend to get a flooring of several dozen million dollars and can range into the hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars. Credit facilities are popular with aircraft leasing firms for the purchase of handfuls or dozens of new aircraft at a time, most of which cost between $50 million and $250 million bucks apiece.
Next, facility providers agreements can be thought of as set of loans that permit the borrower a whole lot more flexibility than just one loan. Going back to ABC Bank and John Consumer, if Consumer wanted to sell his vehicle, he'd have to renegotiate his loan with ABC. ABC might not permit Consumer to sell his vehicle, which he is using as security, without telling them without obtaining their approval to substitute other acceptable collateral. By comparison, credit facilities permit for the swapping of security such that the terms of the credit facility need not be renegotiated every time. This gives the borrower with versatility and the creditor with peace of mind. Similarly, multiple loans collected into one vehicle-the credit facility-allow the debtor to borrow, or even withdraw, the funds at different times and at different interest rates. The borrower doesn't have to take all of the money at the same time, nor cover it back all at once.
At the exact same time, and perhaps a bit confusingly, a charge facility might well be only 1 tranche of funds, at a particular rate of interest, secured by a precise asset as collateral-a loan, in other words. What distinguishes a credit facility in the financial loan is the notion that a credit facility may be broken up and used much more differently than a loan. Therefore, the credit facility has the ability to be a loan, also it has the capacity to morph into an assortment of loans.
Just as the capital might be broken up at the consumer end, so they may be divided in the lender end, too. Because such large sums are often in play, the "lender" may actually not be one creditor but several-a syndicate of banks.
Facility Services Agreements might be for the short term (a few months) or for the very long duration (years or dozen of years). Credit facility arrangements have provisions about the debtor's obligations (to report changes, to remain present in payments) and representations and warranties (regarding the collateral); default option of the debtor and rate of payment; assignment of the arrangements; and conclusion. Much like loan records, these agreements set forth the parties, the duration of the agreement, the sums must be lent, the interests prices, the drawdown terms (i.e., how quickly the borrower may access the funds), and needless to say, the repayment provisions for interest and to the main. Most agreements also have a provision on the use of the proceeds. Hundreds of millions of dollars cannot go out the door with no banks and investors understanding its final intent. Purposes range from purchase of capital resources into paying operating expenses.
Facility service arrangements, also known as credit facility agreements are extremely complex documents with many moving parts. However, their complexity may be dissected if their general goal is known and the numerous loans which compose the credit facility are considered individually.
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Choosing Perfect Child Care Center For Any Child In Nh
A mother's job is rarely done, but there are a couple of simple aspects that other family (mainly spouses/partners and kids) can do today make it go much smoother. My hubby and youngsters are great at helping out, but I am aware of that isn't case for many families. So, here's a run-down of some simple ways everyone is able to make super-mom's job easier. They're even categorized truly easier to assist you someone out quickly.
If in order to under the sense that your son or daughter's helmet has to be changed every year, you are wrong. Usually a good helmet is equipped with two and three groups of foam fitting pads. You might start using thick pads and use the thinner pads as the kid grows. While you head doesn't grow as quick as his legs or feet.
The schoolyard. Going to the park is that old stand-by. On the nice day why stay inside many? At the park you can run, play fetch, and give your dog perform with other dogs. There's no better opportinity for your dog to get great exercise and come home tired, giving you time to trap up on top of your housework or bookkeeping. If there are slides as well as other CT-Art, teach your dog to go over them. It's great for building confidence and muscle strengthen.
This park would are perfect for getting exercise on the trail, a leisurely stroll, fishing, or picnicking. With no your babies are hoping to find a playground they'll be discouraged. Another thing to note about this park may be the only restroom available seems end up being a Port-a-potty.
During heavy storms, your outdoor trash cans may blow over if surroundings . securely wedged in situation. Save yourself the trouble of cleaning up the mess by simply using a heavy tire to help you keep your outdoor trash cans in region. This will maintain them through the reach of pesky mice, rats and raccoons.
Hiking. Dogs love to learn trails as often as you love them. This loads of fun to look your dog sniffing along as you hike. There are places to hike around the world! If you live in the mountains there are trails through them, such as the Appalachian Trail while on the East coast, state parks have trails, national parks have trails, even city parks have trails.
We are typical programmed a great on/off switch that carries us through our day. The ups and downs, those feelings of enthusiasm to accomplish anything we desire to do followed through the desire just sit and relax region we all experience.
An great way to find these hardware materials is through online depots. These web shops offer an associated with hardware supplies you would not find within your local accumulate. Different brands, including SPS Unbrako screws, are available so you do not have to stress yourself out looking upon their. This is a much easier option as you can immediately be conscious of the item one does a pick out. You do not have to leave your home or have a problem explaining on the sales person the exact kind have to have. Some online stores offer supply. You can make your transactions over the web and wait for your merchandise to reach your house.
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