With everything said and done, not to nitpick or anything, and no offense—I mean a little—to the cooks but this place's whole maximum security shtick seemed to have bled onto their food as well. I could've understood the strict portions but it's like eating plain oatmeal despite the nice balance between carbs, protein, and fats.
But yeah, it wasn't a problem too much to handle with salt and pepper shakers.
In addition, Tatiana's secret bacon stash and Artem's ability to spawn hot pockets from anywhere he'd wish came into play—and even if everyone else who ate saw what we were doing, they just didn't say much but Morales let out a huge sigh.
"I do apologize for the food, I've just had the best dinner at your place yesterday and here I am serving you something with very little seasoning..."
"It's okay, if it's by choice—"
"It's my wife's choice, not ours, not everyone's. We just had a fight and she's been doing this ever since. We're gonna have another talk after this and she should understand she shouldn't mess with everyone's food just because we had a little spat. She could do it with mine if she's that angry but this is just embarrassing and ridiculous."
Oscar cut in, "Just apologize. It'd be easier that way—"
Morales shook his head, "I will certainly not. It's not even my fault. Besides, with all due respect, it's not any of your business—"
Oscar rolled his eyes, "She made it everyone's business if she pull shit like this, you said it yourself, it's embarrassing. You either take her off the kitchen or you apologize even if she's in the wrong. It's one thing to let her keep doing it but it's another thing to let your fight affect everyone else.
I know it's just food but you're husband and wife, resolve the fucking issue like adults—or partners would, or have her cool off someplace else and pay visits whenever you have the fucking time. You're acting like fucking children."
"..."
"..."
Morales then stood up after placing his meal to the side, "I guess I will do that, again, I apologize."
Oscar scoffed, "At least you apologize when you know you're wrong."
The plan used was to clear them surgically but with how my head works, it just works better this way and we'd just have to completely close off the preceding stations before we get to the connecting stations we planned to take over before. And in addition, it'd be a lot safer if we had a path we could safely turn our backs to or have a little less security on that spot.
Still, even if they just managed to hose down the gunk under the railway, it'd be a job well done given the time left before sunset.
'Wait a second... Oh! That could work... right? Definitely!'
And this was where I had a nifty idea for the blockades we left back home. It'd be a pain to have our engineers cut 'em up again and fit something for a special purpose but it'd be much better that way moving forward. In addition, just the flexibility it could provide would prove useful if there ever came a time the LRT Line 1 gets breached.
However, on our drive back, I didn't even notice I was looking at Quinn with a weird smile.
She never looked so weirded out as she palmed my face away, "You— Don't... I'm down to fuck every step of the way but don't fucking look at me with that smile— It's a fucking ick, honestly."
I chuckled as I rebooted to my normal smile, "I'm sorry, remember the blockades we started making last minute where we only managed to make one that we used earlier?"
"Those... Those are words, sure... But yeah, I remember why do you ask?"
"I'm thinking of adding some wheels on 'em."
Quinn shot me down, "That'd be easy but why? It's not like the protective barriers on the side are the same width! It's lucky enough the place we dropped it in was a perfect fit."
"You silly, silly goose... You've never had a Tamiya before, huh?"
"The fuck is a Tamiya— HOLD UP! OH, SHIT! THAT'S PERFECT!"
"If anything, we'd only need one, right?"
Kaley cut in, "What are you talking about again? Tamiyas? Isn't that the old cartoon way back when?"
"That's the one! I even have a few in storage too! I can't display all my shit back home! So yeah, we'll drop by Jude's place first and I'll show everyone the thing so you have a better idea!"