#/* ed is not telling me how he feels about watching someone pop pimples or blackheads */

[not-that-dillinger]

Ed's eyes lit up. "Old Nokias?" he asked with the excitement that one would have expected someone like him to have reserved for new cutting edge tech. "Like--like..." He reached into his pocket, and pulled out... just the thing. A brick phone. From the looks of it, it might have been the first phone he ever owned, considering the numbers have been worn off. What is certain is at this rate it was likely to be his last. It was likely to outlast him.

There was a good chance there was likely other gems of old tech in the rubbish pile. Or maybe they'll find a body and have a mystery on their hands. Either way, Ed was intrigued.

"I'd love to!"

/* For Doom */

🤓 geek out over something

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Could Ed be the one? Could he be the one Doom finally gets to geek out with about her out-of-the-ordinary obsession with watching videos of people popping blackheads?

Her breath is quickening, her eyes widening, pupils dilating at the mere thought of it. The only person she's ever been able to share such a fixation with was her sister, Thursday. Everyone else thinks it's gross or weird.

But could Ed be the one...?

No. No. No. Not yet. She can't. She chickens out at the last second. Ed will give her the look, and that'll just make her feel stupid. so stupid, she can't stand to get the look from people, especially not people she enjoys being around, because then she will always worry about getting the look from them again.

So, instead of sharing that special interest with him, she swerves around it and goes for something more socially acceptable instead.

"Ed, have you ever seen the rubbish pile just outside of the Office?" Doom says, her face split into an almost manic grin. The rubbish pile is one of her favorite things to talk about - and dig around in. "It's this literal pile of rubbish that was left behind by people at some point during the apocalypse that somehow never gets any smaller and apparently has no bottom to it. We've been digging in it for like, years or something, and we've found like hundreds of old Nokia cell phones and old bottle caps and shit. It's awesome! Ehehehe. You wanna come check it out? Come dig around in some rubbish like a weirdo? Ehehehe."