Egerius wrote: ↑31 Aug 2024 21:43
“It happened when I was working at the university library as a student: So during my shift, a woman entered in total hysterics because she had some fees to pay. One of my co-workers went on his merry way to fetch our boss, but she wasn't available – so my coworker had to take his sweet time.
Now, that woman was ruffling up – and even ripping out – her fur and started insulting my coworker and basically everyone, getting louder and louder.
She really racked up those fees and ran out of the library foyer when she spotted our
female boss.”
Cynewulf laughed and wiped away some tears: “I would've kicked her out so hard, I'd send her flying!”
"The lady in our case was pulling a massive tail cart behind her," says Doug, making an 'it was this big' sweeping motion with his tail. "The attendant said she had to divide the load up into smaller volumes that would be routed separately--keep in mind you pay by the hop when taking a mass router--or she could have it ferried to Welkinstead, which would take a while this time of year. Well, that was unacceptable as far as she was concerned, so she started raising her voice. Well that set some human kids in the line giggling."
"If you haven't heard a monkey fox yelling," says Sherman, "It's not terribly intimidating, to a human anyway."
"Well," says Doug, "This just makes her even madder, and she starts thumping her tail," Doug demonstrates by repeatedly slapping the wood floor with his long sinewy tail.
"In case you're wondering," says Sherman looking at Cynewulf, "No that's not tail wagging. It's more like a gorilla pounding its chest--I assume you know what gorillas are. If you don't they're like humans, but hairier and a lot stronger."
"Anyway," Doug continues, "She finishes up with a rude paw gesture," he balls his forepaw into a fist and jams the pad of his outer thumb into the ground as though squashing a troublesome insect. "Then she storms off. A few minutes later, Sherman and I are at the counter and the Karen slinks back, turns out she forgot her cart and does a walk of shame out the door with it. But those bottle black ears," Doug chuckles, "She looked like a Karen before she even opened her mouth.
"Personally I never understood why they don't just make bigger mass routers," says Doug. "As they are, a yinrih can fit bit of luggage in the bore, but a human is lucky to bring a backpack. I think they just want to get more money out of you by charging for extra hops."
Sherman raises a hand to take the floor, his eyes sparkling with interest again, "Actually it's not a conspiracy to get you to pay more. There's severe mass AND volume limits to what can fit into a single mass flow. Like my dad said, it's a yinrih plus a a few bags or a human and one bag. They make special freight routers that can fit wider pallets, usually for transporting data drives or prepared foodstuffs, but they're wider at the expense of being shorter, like a slot that fits a tray rather than a round bore with a bed. To me they kinda look like pizza ovens."