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Stuck At Work

Reblog if you like meet-cute soft feedist romance and fat4fat. Nothing scandalous or explicit in this one, just a tale of fast food fun on the job, written in response to this request. Thanks for the ask, anon!

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She didn't mind being stuck at work with him for the night.

Tuesday nights were quiet after the dinner rush, with not many customers stopping in, either at the drive-thru or the counter. On really slow nights, like tonight, the manager sometimes had her cover both. She couldn't quite reach both the indoor cash register and the drive-thru window from the same chair, but it was just a couple of steps from one to the other, so she spent most of the downtime scrolling through her phone and sneaking glances at him.

He was busy in the kitchen, preparing burger orders as they came in and refreshing the contents of the french fryer and shake machines. He had a chair of his own that he spent most of his time in when it was just him in the kitchen, and she couldn't help admiring how deftly he moved, reaching with a calculated economy of motion to flip a burger with one hand and pull a shake with the other.

She couldn't help admiring his belly, either. Their shifts didn't overlap very often, and while they weren't the only two fat people who worked at the restaurant, they were by far the two biggest. She felt a sense of kinship with him. Kinship, but also attraction. The way his folds of fat seemed to swallow up the shirt of his regulation uniform, the way she could sometimes catch just a glimpse of belly peeking out at the bottom… the sight of him made her more than a little bit flustered, and she couldn't help imagining what he might look like with his uniform off, how deliciously big and soft he'd be if she had him in her bedroo--

Snap out of it, she thought to herself, as the intercom of the drive thru crackled and she punched in an order for a cheeseburger and two kids' meals. He'd think you were crazy if you told him about feedism. And you're not supposed to flirt at work. She sighed. Even a slow night's work kept them just busy enough that it was hard to carry on a conversation in more than snippets, and after the disaster with her last boyfriend she had gotten cautious about admitting to guys that not only did she not mind being fat, she liked it, and she liked it when they were fat too. Another lonely night at the register, she thought to herself before sneaking another glance at him. His back was turned, and she could see his enormous rolls of backfat quivering in the snug uniform shirt as he reached to dip another basket of fries in the fryer. At least I get to enjoy the eye candy.

The intercom crackled to life again. The car was definitely full of teenagers, and they were definitely drunk. Or high. Probably both. She tried to make out the names of particular value meals from the din of at least four or five voices shouting their orders, changing them halfway through, cracking up laughing for no reason, circling back around to ask for the same thing they asked for in the first place. By the time they were finished she had cued up a half-dozen burger meals with sodas, three chicken meals, two extra baskets of fries, and (thanks to a particularly loudmouthed voice who kept saying "I can't decide!" in a mock whine), a trio of extra-large thick shakes, one each of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.

"Big order coming in, huh?" She could just hear his voice over the crackle of the fryer. Her double chins quivered as she turned her head to see him smiling. "Yup. At least it's the last one for the night. 11:59 on the dot."

"I'll get to work." He was as fast and efficient as ever, and a moment later she was hefting herself up from the chair with a grunt and stepping over to the window between the kitchen and the register where he had just placed a tray of food. Suddenly she blushed. My shirt is riding up, she thought. Gripping it with both hands, she tugged it down quickly and fiercely where it had started to expose a few inches of her own swaying lower belly. Fortunately, his back was turned again. She reached for the tray of food.

"Wait, there's more. Since we're closing up, I'll just bring the rest out to you now. That way you don't have to make two trips."

"Thanks." She took another few steps and slipped into the drive-thru booth, her hips just barely brushing the doorframe. She set down the tray and slid open the window to pass the bags out. Behind her, she heard the kitchen door open.

Suddenly, there was a sound of coughing and laughter, a deafening roar and a streak of light as the car sped past the window, a screech as it braked suddenly at the turn out of the parking lot, and a final roar as it sped off into the night.

"Damn it." She slid the window closed and turned around. "Dine and dash."

"More like drive-thru and das-- WHOA!"

She hadn't realized he was almost on top of her at the entrance to the booth. How did she not notice? He must have stepped towards her just as the engine was revving. With the same swiftness he used when he was juggling the fryer, the grill and the shake machine, he managed to drop the tray he had been holding while catching the handles of the bags that had been sitting on it. He instinctively stretched out the other hand out to steady himself, though, and it crashed straight into her shoulder, sending her spinning at an angle back into the drive-thru booth. Losing his own balance as she stumbled, he swung forwards, just barely avoiding a crash into the plexiglas window as he caught himself with his shoulder against the wall opposite the one where her back was pressed.

They were face to face and belly to belly.

"Whew." For a moment all they could do was breathe, heavy and ragged with the sudden exertion. She saw him try to take a step back, only to find that between the window and the doorframe, his ass and thighs were wedged in so tightly by the pressure of their bellies that he couldn't do it. He tried again.

"I think we're stuck." There was such a sheepish look on his face but she couldn't help laughing. And with her face just a foot or two from his -- their bellies took up a lot of space -- she was even more struck than usual by his boyishly charming eyes, his quivering triple chins, his enormous fat cheeks that dimpled as he smiled back. "What a way to end the night, huh? At least it's closing time."

"This is like something out of a fetish cartoon!" she blurted out. Oh my god. I can't believe I just said that.

"Like a what?" There was a quizzical expression on his face, but still a hint of a smile on his lips.

"I mean -- it's like something you'd see on the Internet."

"Yeah? Where on the Internet?" He laughed, and when his belly began to jiggle, hers did too. She realized suddenly that both of their shirts had ridden up, and the bottoms of their bellies were touching, skin-to-skin. Despite the embarrassment of the situation, and the further embarrassment of putting her foot in her mouth, the sudden realization was electric. It felt so good, so warm, so fat…

Snap out of it! she told herself once again. "I don't know," she said, suddenly desperate to change the subject and get out of the booth. "Places."

"Places, huh." The smile on his face was still there. "Well, talk about places. We're stuck in the drive through booth." He managed to extend an arm out to pull the curtain down over the window. Reversed from their vantage point, the letters on the opaque plastic curtain read: CLOSED.

"There you go. Now at least nobody on the Internet will see us." He grinned. "I'm not sure I can get out of here without either tearing my shirt off or giving myself a nasty scrape on that doorframe. But at least we won't starve to death." He wedged one of the bags between their bellies, opened it up, and pulled out a double cheeseburger.

She couldn't help laughing. "How can you be so relaxed? We're stuck in the booth!" Something about his tone of voice was putting her at ease, almost like he didn't mind being stuck here with her, their fat bellies pressed together as their shirts rode up. But that's silly, she thought to herself. He's just trying to calm me down.

"Well, there are worse places to be. And like I said, we're not gonna starve." He unwrapped the cheeseburger and took a bite. "Unless I get flensed by that doorframe, it's actually pretty comfy."

"Flensed?"

"Yeah. Strip my blubber off. I mean, I am kind of a whale." Seeing the sudden blush on her face, he grinned. "C'mon, I know I'm a big guy. And a big guy's gotta be able to have a sense of humor sometimes. Like when he's stuck in the drive-thru booth with the cutest girl on the entire fast food strip."

At that, she blushed even further.

"Aren't you hungry? You don't eat when you get nervous?" He popped the last of the cheeseburger into his mouth, reached into the bag, and pulled out an extra-large carton of fries. "But seriously, I've seen how you look at me sometimes. You're an FFA. It's obvious. And I'll be honest, it's hard not to look at you that way sometimes, too."

Her breath had returned to normal from the shock of crashing into him, but her heart was beating faster now. He laughed and lifted a handful of french fries to her mouth. "Here, eat! If we're stuck here forever, at least it'll be a good last meal."

The mouthful of moist, juicy fries was what finally put her fully at ease. "You're right. A good meal and good company." I can't believe I'm doing this, she thought as she reached a hand out to touch the side of his exposed belly. "I'm glad it was you and not the manager."

He smiled. "That's for sure. You know I never said anything to you because it's against HR to flirt at work, right? But so is eating the food from a dine-and-dash. And I'm pretty sure getting stuck in the booth is against the rules too. So we might as well enjoy ourselves."

"Good thing those kids ordered all three kinds of shake."

"You can say that again. If it were just vanilla I'd get bored." He winked. "Tell that one to your mysterious Internet site, big girl."

She laughed. "Okay, you got me. It's feedist stuff. How did you know?"

"I can see your phone from the kitchen. You're not supposed to be scrolling 'hashtag: fat boys' at work. But I don't mind. Do you think I got this fat by working at a fast food restaurant?" He paused for a beat. "Well, okay, I did. But doing it on purpose was the fun part."

"Mmm. Can I do this on purpose?" Squeezing his belly with both hands, she leaned in to kiss him. With her tongue already in his mouth, mingling with the lingering taste of the french fries and anticipating the milkshakes, all he could do was put a hand on her own exposed belly and squeeze back yes.

She didn't mind being stuck at work with him for the night.

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Gojo x Reader wip (The Marriage)

Author's Note: Hey guys. I recently read the interview about Gojo that was translated. It made me think about this wip I've had in my drafts forever. It's from the last chapter of my Gojo x Reader fic (The Marriage). It's hasn't been edited but I want to share it with you beauties. If you haven't already you can check out the series. The interview has got me in my feels. I had an upcoming fic planned with Naoya but I'm thinking about switching it to our blue eyed king. Anyway, here is the wip. Enjoy!

Warnings: mentions of illness, super rough draft so read at your own risk!!!

The was a bounty on Satoru Gojo’s head.

He was just a child and already curse users across the country were plotting their strategies to obtain him dead or alive. A child in possession of the six eyes? The reward money for even one of his eyes would be enough to live five lifetimes in luxury. 

The Gojo clan knew this and took preventative measures to ensure Satoru’s safety. However, all their efforts were put in jeopardy one afternoon when it was discovered by a maid that Satoru was not in his room, after an extensive sweep is was determined he had left the estate. 

“Satoru Gojo,” his uncle hissed.

~

An eleven year old Satoru walked the streets of Tokyo by himself, he had occasionally snuck out of the estate before, but this time was different, people were actively looking for him, his family, and two curse users. Satoru had noticed them following him for awhile now, an old woman and a man with thick eyebrows had been observing him from a rooftop cafe while he played in the arcade in the building across the street. At first he hadn’t done anything, knowing they weren’t stupid enough to make a move in front of so many non sorcerers. So he just focused on Pac-Man for the time being.

Other kids his age stood in small groups around the other machines. As much as he pretended he not to care a small part of him, buried by years of strict upberinging, wished to join them. Spend the day with people his own age and not worry about the fate of society. Normalcy would have been true freedom. 

~

When he had his fill he walked out of the arcade and glanced up at the curse users. Eyebrows, or Groucho as he had dubbed him, was still staring. 

Get a life.

He was fed up with them so he returned rhe gaze, knowing it wouldn’t be long until they sensed it, his cursed energy. And surely enough, after a few seconds Groucho and Granny began to recoil. They knew what he was, how easy it would be for him to take both of them out. He broke eye contact and started walking down the busy street.

~

Satoru bought a box of nerds and a can of Fanta from the nearby 7- Eleven. He decided on taking his goods into a Best Buy nestled into a shopping mall, there he decided to barricade himself in the home theater display room in front of the flat screen tvs. Finally left in peace he chugged his soda and shoved handfuls of purple and pink nerds into his mouth. He loved stuff like this but at home he was regulated to a strict diet. No process, high calorie, and not an ounce of flavor. He hated it, he didn’t want to go back, maybe he should just run away. His family would definitely have noticed his absence by now. They would send someone shortly, he’d just have to enjoy what time he had left. Satoru leaned back in the recliner and watched the repeating trailers and music videos that were played to display the effectiveness of the flat screen. A security guard tapped the back of the chair he was in. 

“Hey kid, this isn’t a lounge. You can’t take your crap in here.”

Satoru rolled his eyes and continued to watch the N’sync music videos. 

The guard stood in front of him. “Where are your parents.”

Why was everyone over the age of twenty giving him a hard time today. He didn’t have to deal with it not now. So he warped out of the chair and discreetly landed in front of the store. 

“Have a good day,” the cashier said as he walked out. 

The security guard stood flabbergasted in front of the now empty seat, littered with an empty soda can and stray pieces of candy. 

The music video ended and the trailer for Miss Congeniality started playing. 

~

Satoru wandered around the mall for awhile after that eventually stopping at a small movie theater next to Sears. 

The poster for X-Men caught his eye. He had wanted to see it for awhile know but had been denied by his uncle since it was dangerous. 

“One ticket for X- Men please.”

~

Satoru was lucky enough to have the whole theater to himself. He settled in the the middle of the aisle in the back. Finally some peace and quiet. The trailers dragged on and finally the fx logo appeared accompanied by an orchestra to signify the arrival of Hugh Jackman and his claws. He got through the first twenty minutes of the film before a familiar voice spoke beside him. 

“There you are,” his father softly spoke. 

Satoru sighed. He had felt his father’s presence before he could see him and sure enough a guard from the Gojo estate stood expecactantly at the end of the aisle. 

“How did you find me?” Satoru asked. 

“There were reports of two curse users retreating from a white haired threat. You don’t exactly blend in Satoru,” the old man chuckled. 

Satoru reluctantly stood up. “Are we going now?”

Much to his surprise his father sat down in the seat next to his. “What do you mean? The film just started.”

The security guard stepped forward. “Sir-”

He held up a hand to stop him. “Call my brother and tell him well be back at the estate later this evening. And have a few more guards on standby to patrol the mall. Can’t be too careful.”

The guard stepped out of the theater to make the call. Satoru’s father patted the seat next to him and Satoru hesitantly sat back down.”

“This is from that cartoon you used to like?” his father asked. 

“Yeah and the comics, you remember that?”

“Of course I do.”

The two of them settled in for the rest of the movie. 

~

“Well that was interesting. Did you enjoy the film?”

Satoru nodded as he walked alongside his father out of the theater. 

“And the white haired character? What was her name?”

“Storm.”

“She’s you’re favorite?”

Satoru nodded in excitement. He rarely got the opportunity to talk about things like this with others, his mind wandered back to the groups of kids in the arcade.

“Storm’s the strongest.”

His father smiled. “Then it’s fitting that she’s your favorite character.”

Satoru looked up to him and smiled back wishing he could stay there forever.

~

Instead of going straight home Satoru’s father takes him to the mall food court. “If you were just eating candy you’ll give yourself a belly ache.”

So his father buys him a cheeseburger with fries and a cherry coke along with a small salad for himself. 

Gojo notices how the security guard is eyeing the current head of the Gojo clan, it’s the same way everyone else has been looking at him, cautious of the possibility of him breaking. His father’s health hadn’t been doing so well, doctors and nurses were a frequent sighting around his room and it was clear how weak he really was. Over the last year he’d grown thin, his cheeks were so hollow. The salad in front of him was just for show, he’d only be able to get a few bites down before heaving it back up. At night he’d hear his Uncle and the rest of the men talking about how preparations needed to be made, how Satoru’s training needed to be accelerated so he’d be ready to assume the role of clan head. But he dind’t want to be the head, he wanted his father. His mother had passed when he was a baby, leaving her husband and son in the snake pit. And if his father left…

“Satoru? You’re crying.”

He hadn’t noticed. But sure enough salty tears ran down his face, staining his cheeks. 

“I’m sorry,” he whispered. 

“Son,” he murmured, extending his arms out.

It was rare, growing up in such a tradition family, to show emotions and be vulnerable. But Satoru rushed to his arms and let his father hold him. He knew if he didn’t he’d regret it. 

“Dad,” he muttered in his chest, cherishing the sound of his beating heart. 

“I know you’re sorry. And I’m sorry to. You’re so young but the weight of the world is on your shoulders.”

He pulled away and looked at his son in the eyes, those infinite blue eyes that connected the sea and the sky in harmony. 

“I know it seems lonely now. But someday you’ll be surrounded by people who love you. No one should be alone. Don’t worry. Let’s just go home.”

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More World Building for Tron, because I get stuck on random details

This time, featuring Energy in general, on the Grid

First, energy is multifunctional within the Grid. It power vehicles and machines, and serves as food and drink for Programs. It's naturally occuring, in the outlands with pools.

Energy is a natural resource, distributed throughout the grid as rain. Unforunately, Raw energy is slightly corrosive. You can drink it and be okay, but long term exposure isn't good for anyone. Think of it like salt water or lemon juice. Sure you'll be fine, but you will get uncomfortable. Since it's also energy, everyone absorbs some through their skin. If you absorb too much, you'll overload your systems and that's also really bad. That's why storms are dangerous, in addition to the electricity and lightning.

Energy has three forms, Raw, Primary, and Secondary. This refers to how processed the energy has been. Raw energy has not been processed. Primary energy has been processed, and is the most common form. Secondary is less common and is used in culinary pursuits or in the military.

Primary energy has either been processed through the city's power plant or through the Grid. In the ground is an aquifer of energy, which is why Tesler tried to drill for energy. Unfortunately, this caused blackouts since the city's energy is pulled from that same aquifer. The power plants regulate energy and moniter its use to ensure everyone has what they need, and that the aquifer remains healthy. If you take too much, there won't be enough left to support the city. The plants also plan excursions to the outlands to find energy pools to harvest. It's all about balance.

Each building has it's own energy well, but they're used as secondary energy sources. It more efficient for everyone if the power plant manages energy. The energy is distributed throughout the area by aqueducts connected to all buildings.

Primary energy can be drunken but it's really strong. Most programs prefer it diluted. Primary energy is used mainly for infrastructure and vehicles.

Secondary energy ranges from liquids to solids. It can be thinner, thicker, jelly-like, or even crystalline. It's used in both culinary arts and industrial and military functions.

Culinary energy tends to focus on drinks, with some jellies and solids. They make syrups and bases, sodas, many different kinds of energy drink for programs to consume. If you drink it every day, why not make it interesting? Some programs even have the capability to process the energy into jelly-like or crystal-like structures. These aren't very common, since they're more like gimmicks or candy. Not necessary, but novel and fun. Once turned into jelly or crystal, the energy cannot be turned back.

Industrial energy tends to be thicker, using a concentrated energy to run heavy machinery. There are many engineers experimenting to make more efficient energy forms. Crystal energy is sometimes used, but it's very rare.

Except if you're in the military. The military takes crystal energy and makes it into bombs. Yup, bombs. Crystal energy pellets are essentially bullets, and larger crystals get turned into grenades and bombs. Anything that uses crystal energy has a change to just explode.

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Sun's bathtime.

Vanessa prepares her spray bottles, rags and supplies together. In her office. In one big bucket, she grabbed a towel, and folded it beside the bucket, and thrown that beside it.

Then she grabbed the empty spray bottles, then carried it over next door to the troff sink. She placed both of the bottles over to a small white tray next to the troff. That is specially designed some time ago, to do her yearly baths for the robot's.

She reacted over to one bottle, then grabbed it in her hand then unscrewed the top lid of it. She assigns this bottle to be the soapy one.

Then turned on the hot water first, then waited for it to heat up a little, before popping the bottle under the water flow. Then after when it fills up a fourth way.

She then makes sure to chemicalize it with soap, that is good with removing dirt, and stains. She switched off the hot water. Then moved on the cold water and turned it on, to fill that up halfway.

To regulate the water temperature. Then once, it's filled up. She switches off the cold water, then shakes the bottle to mix in the soap. Then felt her hand against it, and feels that it's warm. Then she placed that one to one side, then grabbed the other one, and unscrewed that one, and only filled that one with cold water. For rinsing.

Then, once their set, she takes the bottles back over to her office, then put's them inside the bucket. Picked up the bucket, and lifted it in one arm. Then she grabbed her key's, by her desk, then headed out the door. Then she turns, and locks it, then turns and walks in the utility stairs, to find the exit for the main Lobby.

She walks in the room, then walked her way up to the grated stairs, then walked her way up it, then onto of the grated platform, then walked down the railed pathway up to the blue door, that leads up to the side of the soda machine shop section of the Lobby. Where the Pick up line is. She walks to the door, then opens it, and closes it as she stepped in.

She could hear the jazzy version of the main theme song playing gently through the Plaza. When she walked over to the shutters, to the entrance of the 'Pick up line.' She walks over to the passcode port, beside it, then set's down the bucket for a moment.

Then pulls out the card, from her pant pocket on her self side, then inserted the card into the port. To type in the pass code, for the door. Then, it opened. Once it did, she put's the card, back into her leg pocket then picks up the bucket, then walks into the inner lobby.

Where the chairs are placed, for the parents to wait, in. Then she walks up to the gate, with the bucket in both of her arms, then set's it down. a second time. To lift up the lock on the gate, to open it, then pushes it open with her hand.

Then she turns around, then picks up the bucket, and moves it over to the other side. Then closes, the gate shut. Then, she picks up the bucket again, and merrily walks by the upper lobby, where the two of the Security Bot's usually go on patrol.

This time, they weren't there, and she walks past to where the first shutter door is, To where the stairs are, then walks down them carefully. With the bucket in her arms, then once she touches the tiled black and white tiles on the floor, with her feet. She does, this small hop across it, rattling the items inside.

She strides alone over to the front door of the 'Super Star Daycare.'Then with her strength, she put's on weight under the bucket with her right hand, then with her left, she brought her hand out, then brings it up to the door, and knocks with all knuckles, then calls out "Sun! Open the door please!" and placing back her hand under the bucket. "It's me." She announced. Then waited.

Then she hears fast jungle steps walk up to the door, then opened it. A Sun's face popped through, meeting Vanessa. "Officer Vanessa! Hey!" He chirps, hopping happily in front of her. "Heya Sun!" She say's smiling. "I'll open the door up for you!"

He offered, pulling the bulky door wide back into the daycare, stepping to the side, open for Vanessa, to step in. "After you!" Sun say's "Why thank you very much!" She replied, taking the appreciation. With a friendly tease, then she steps in. When Sun shuts the door, he steps over to Vanessa, and see's the bucket.

"What's in there?" He asked, curious. While Vanessa set's down the bucket, onto the counter. Then say's "Well. I've got some goodies inside this!" She say's drawing his attention. "Googlies?" He say's excitedly, holding his two arms in front of himself, and curling his hands together. "Nope!"

Vanessa answered, then pulled out the spray bottles in her hands, then held them up in front of Sun. Pulling a cheeky grin, "These!" she exclaimed, giving a small laugh.

To which Sun then realized. "Now?...Today? So soon!?" He replied, feeling *Unnecessarily* anxious, by being shy. And he backed up a little, retracting this ray's. "Yes, You are due for your bath today! It's you're turn, now Sun!" Sun turned away.

Vanessa tells him, generally knowing that he'll be stubborn. And may not wan't to precipitate. To that, his response is, "Bye!" Then he crawled, away and down the daycare up to the small toy house, from under the bridge.

Then wedged himself in it. "Sun!" she called out, firmly. Setting the bottles back into the bucket, and carried the bucket, on the way over to the crafting spot. "Get back here!" she added, not taking the situation seriously, and just casually followed up to the spot. "Gosh, you're such a stubborn thing...." She say's under her tolerated breath, while on her way down.

To place the buck down, then grabbed the towel from the corner of the bucket, then pinched the corners of it, to let it flip down, and open in it's full length, then she walked over to an open spot.

And fluffed it down from the air, then placed it on the floor. Then she went over to the bucket, and scootched it over a little closer to the towel. To prepare. Then she goes over to the small house. Stood Infront of it. Then knocked.

"Are you ready for your bath?" she started, holding both hands at her sides. "Busy!" came back his muffled response. Vanessa, then rolled her eyes, and whipped the door open quickly, then just reached in there to grab Sun. "No! No, no no no!" Sun begged.

Squirming, but Vanessa, didn't let her police training slip that easily, when handing with her strength, pulling him out by his legs, and dragging him out! "Nooooooooo! I don't wanna go!!" Sun cried. grabbing hold on the ground. With his fingers, but also slightly letting go, as a sort of 'Miss behavior'.

"Don't be so ridiculous!" She tells him back, then goes forward to grab under his torso, and hoisted him up in her arms. Like a dog. "Awww, no faiiiiiirrrrr!" He 'whines' as she carried him over to the mat, place. Tuen set's him down, then say's "Stay right there!" She instructed him, and he obliged pouty.

Then Vanessa, stepped to the bucket, then got out the soapy spray bottle, tyen the wash cloth, thgen saw Sun trying to creep away off the mat with her peripheral vision. "Uh, uh uh!" She worded. Then Sun stepped back, moaning "Awwww..." Then she collected what she needed, then turned around and asked, ready? "Yes." He answered. Sheepishly, but willing to follow along.

Vanessa approved his answer small answer, came up to him with the washcloth in hand, and sprayed the soapy continents onto the rag, a few times till wet. Then reached up to Sun's head that he brought down to meet at her level, and held still, then she applied her gentle hand on his face.

Then say's looking at him. "Be a good boy for me today. The sooner we get this done, the sooner you'll be able to play." She told him, and he surrendered by letting her wipe on the 'Sun' side of his face, starting with the crevice, wiping in it, and above his eye in circular motions, pressing into the dirty parts when she needed to. Then gone on over again, against the crevice, down to his nose.

Really getting it in. "Hmm..." Sun voiced, feeling the itchy. When she was doing this, his ray's were retracting in, a little. "I know." Vanessa assured him, then she moved on to the other side of his face. On his cheek, and wiping that it circles, then under the eye. Then, moved the cloth over to the part to his nose.

Carefully rubbing the cloth, in that spot. Where Sun grimaced from under his mask, shaking his head once, when she scrubbed into that area. Feeling a scratching sensation. "Good boy." She praised. When Sun is working on his patience.

Then she removed the cloth, then flipped over another clean side, then wiped the lower part of his face, just under his cheek, and around his teeth, and moved into the lower crevice of his Moon chin, and wiped up alongside of it, to remove the dirt hidden beside it. "Good." Vanessa praised, then removed the cloth away temporarily.

Then folded over the other clean side, of the wet cloth. And then started on top of his head. Then wiped on down to his nose, to where he flicked his head to the side. then he looked up again, when she messaged his flat nose. "It's ticklish."

He tells her, then she drew her hand away, then wiped his cheek, with the same procedure, then down his chin. To which, he lifted up his head, for her to reach there, and rub around. Then, when she's done with that, she brought back the cloth and stepped back to the bucket.

Then put away the soap bottle, then grabbed out the water one. To use that to rinse off, she squirted some water onto the cloth then set's the water bottle down, and rinsed the cloth, and drenched it out into the bucket.

Then she collected, the water spray bottle again, and came back over to Sun standing there, eyeing her. Then she smiled at him, and squirted some water onto the cloth, until it's wet again. Before wiping it down. "Okay, hold still." Then she wiped back over the same places she wiped, in the crease.

To the side of his nose, that he get's an urge to wiggle his nose feeling. Then she wiped over his 'Sun' face, then down his cheek, and into the lower crease that felt ticklish. To where he felt like he wanted to turn his head. "Face this way.", she tells him holding his head. With her hand. "I'm trying." He say's to her tiredly.

"You are doing so well. Looking so pretty!" She say's to him, encouragingly. Then Sun picked up again, "Gee thanks!" He appreciated, back into good mood again.

Then finished up on the 'Sun' side, and moved onto the Moonside, she readjust her hand onto the cloth, then started at the top of his head, working her way down over his left eye, then across his nose then wiped down to his upper lip.

Then over to the cheek. And down his chin. then, she moved up to the spot to his eye. "Okay, just hold still, I'm going for the crevice around your eye." She warned him gently, "Okay." He say's and trusted her. She then reached up, and in around the edge, with her finder using one end of the cloth. She wiped it down, and some dirt, came out.

Then she brought back her hand, and swapped the other side of the cloth, holding onto Sun's 'Sun' cheek with her right hand, and going back in again, delicately. Avoiding to touch his eye. "Good boy." She praised, then she pulled her hand away, after wiping down.

Then she walked away, then she picked out the cold water, to rinse down the used cloth again. "You are doing very well Sun! Staying patient with this." she encouraged, looking back at Sun again, and gave him a warm smile. "Why, thank you! I like that comment!" He replied to Vanessa, watching what she's doing. Then stretched, because he's been standing around a lot.

Vanessa, finished off rinsing cloth again, and then put back, the cold water bottle. And placed down the cloth for a bit, then turned to Sun, and came up to him saying "Right. Now, we are going to move to the second phase. This time, I'm gonna give you a body wash!" She tells him.

And came up to him, and reached up to his collar, to remove the frills off of his neck. They have a hidden clip in between them. And then pulled them off with her fingers, "Humm...I hate standing for so long."

Sun tells her, now feeling a bit uninterested with the bath. "You can lay down, if you want Sun. But, i'll tell you to sit up, when I need you too." She said to him, holding onto the collar. "I guess..." Sun replied.

Then she held out her right hand, then said. "Ribbons too, if you please Sun?" Sun removed both of the ribbons, tied around his wrists, with the bells attached to them, then put's them onto Vanessa's hand. "Thank you."

Then she turns around, and placed down Sun's belongings beside the bucket. Then she steps closer to the bucket, and picked up the soapy bottle, with her right hand. And shook it again.

She checked it's temperature again, and could now feel it getting cold. With some remaining heat in it. Then she collected the cloth, then turned around back to Sun, looking at him.

Seeing how bare Sun looks, Vanessa couldn't help but to chuckle a little, to that, Sun noticed it. "What's so funny?" He asked. Suspicious. "Oh nothing!" She answered back, now squirting some of the soap onto the cloth to drench it again, but Sun wouldn't by it so quickly. He knows she laughed at his appearence. So he just wen't along, and said.

"If you say so." She gives him a glance, and gave him a small closed grin. Then, then she put's the soapy water bottle down, next to her feet. And came up to Sun, with the cloth in her hand, and say's "Okay, the water has gotten a bit colder, so just a heads up."

She notifies the waters temperature, to him, before placing the cloth on his chest, and on his red buttons, in the middle of his chest. Then Sun straightens up, giving her room. When she rubbed in circles, messaging it in. He felt some relaxation, with the message.

And, he started to enjoy it, and stayed relaxed, when Vanessa wiped across and around his upper chest, then when she moved down to his tummy. He flinched, and caught his stomach with his huge hand giggling "Hee hee hee! That tickles!"

He exclaimed, and Vanessa reached forward, to wipe his stomach again, when Sun straightened up, but the moment, when she touched his tummy.

Sun laughed again, and he get's fidgety here, and there. "Hold still Sun." She tells him, and she goes in small circles, when Sun moved his tummy back a little, giggling. "Hold still please?"

She tells him again, and he stands there, in an awkward lean. Holding in his laughing, but the contractions of his laughter rattled the cage inside, while Vanessa rubbed around, and across his torso. Until, it's clean. She reached in further, then she removed the cloth from him, then Sun was able to settle.

"Just a little bit longer." Vanessa said to him, once Sun calms down. "Hm." He answered quietly. Vanessa put her hand on his shoulder, and told him. "You're okay." Then she gave him a small pet. Then she turned around, while Sun looks on wards to the play structures, feeling the boredom grow.

Vanessa stepped over to the bucket. And first, set the soapy spray bottle down into the bucket. Then pulled out the cold water again, and sprayed some water on the cloth for rinsing.

Then she put's it down. And starts to twist it around to recycle it off. The water drips into the bucket, then she unravels the cloth. And quickly bends down, to retrieve the cold-water spray bottle again, for a refix for some cold water sprays. Before adjusting the cloth, then turns around, and goes back to Sun.

Sun, who is just standing there, swaying side to side a little, feeling the impatience climbing into him. "Time for rinse off." She tells him again, then carefully wiped over his chest, and red buttons.

Vanessa wiped the cloth in circular motions, across his chest, and shoulders. Then wiped down to his stomach, where he flinched a couple of times, when Vanessa worked through.

Then, she pulls away, and returns back to the bucket, to rinse the cloth off again. She bends down, then grabs the cold-water bottle, to spray the cloth.

She hears Sun sigh behind her back, when she sprayed some water onto the cloth, then places back the cold water back into the bucket, then twisted the cloth, into the bucket. The bottom of the pale, now making quiet splashing noises, with the multiple use of the rinsing.

Then bends down to pick up the soap bottle. And shook it, it feels cold after cooling, while she was washing Sun. Then she turns around, flicking the cloth in mid air making a whipping sound. To meet Sun. Looking away, at first. Then looked back at Vanessa.

"Right, now. I'm going to move on to your arms now." she told him next. "I'm getting bored..." Sun say's then Vanessa said. "I know, but remember what I told you? The sooner we get this done-"

"GOD, WILL YOU STOP TELLING ME!?-YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME TWICE!" Sun snapped. Then Vanessa froze in shock, then she looked down feeling sad. Once Sun saw how Vanessa looked by her face, he stopped himself, then said after. "Sorry." "No...It's okay. I've been pushing you.

And I know that you were getting wound up...Because, I was just carrying on." Then she blinked with tears in her eyes, then quickly went back to the bucket, and places the items inside of it. Then walked away from the area, and stood by the tables. To breathe.

But Sun knew that he cut right through her, with his words. And walked up to her. Feeling bad. He puts his hands on her shoulder's as soon as he approached her "Hey." He started, then she turned around beginning to cry. She looked at him with her lip trembling "Come here." He soothed, then pulled her into a hug, and she threw her arms around him. Sniffling hard.

"Hey Vanessa. I do appreciate you giving me a bath. I am aware I get snappy sometimes. That was not nice of me to snap to you, like that. I hope you'll accept my apology?" Vanessa sniffed, and put her hands, on his shoulders then looked at him. "You can sit down, and lay down once I've finished, washing your arms.

Do you want to hold a Plushie, while I wash?" She suggested. Wiping her face, with her hand. "Okay then!" Sun agreed. Vanessa nodded her head, swallowed, then said "It's not your fault, Sun. I mean, I know that you are not for this. I just thought, that if I get this done, as quickly as I can-"

She went on, going through with her reason. "I know, I know, I know...And I was wrong. You didn't do anything wrong. Okay?" Sun reminded her sweetly, then they both stared at each other in agreement, then he let's go of her shoulders. Then she gains her motivation back.

"Alright, let's get back to this! You go and pick out a toy, you want. Then we'll get back to bathing!" She say's wiping both her hands under her eyes, to wipe off her tears, then took a big deep breath then walks back over to the bucket, to retrieve the items she needed again.

Then Sun walked down to the play den, to pick out a toy. He chooses a toy Glamrock Freddy action figure, and a few selection of toy blocks. With variety of different shapes.

And collected them, with his big hands. Feeling relief, once he get's those toys. Then, walks on back over to Vanessa, returning back to the towel mat. Vanessa, then turned back around to meet Sun, having placed down the soap bottle, with a damp cloth ready to use in her hand.

With his handful of toy's in his hands, "I've got them!" He say's to her, "Alrighty then! Let's finish off what we started!" She replies, with a smile. "Yes Ma'am." Sun answered. Then he walks to the center of the mat, then sit's down to begin assembling his toy's he's got.

While Vanessa came around with the cloth. Then got down on her knees. Then reached out to grab his left arm, "Just gonna start with this one." She tells him, then he nods, and continues to play with the blocks, by stacking them up, as alternative with his right hand.

Vanessa starts up at his arm, then started wiping down, moving onto the inner part, then wipe down, and back to the back arm, pressing in firmly, on the arm to clean the areas well. Then she wiped the small compartment piece around his arm, then shifted over to his elbow arm.

And repeated the same wiping from the top, then worked her way down, and around the inner arm, wiping it down.

Then back around, and circled the movement. Then moved onto his hand, she stretched his arm out with her hands, and face his palm out wards, towards her face, then right away she gets the cloth in between his palm, and rubbed in the cloth in it.

His fingers twitched, due to the sensation of feeling ticklish. "I can feel that!" He giggled eyeing her, then faces back at his stack of blocks, and picking up another block. Vanessa smiled, and continued to work in his palm. Then she moved over to his thumb, and wiped it down, by wrapping the cloth around it.

Applying pressure on her fingers, then she went back over it, wrapping the cloth around his thumb, and twisting it around. Getting every section around it. Then, she flipped his hand back around, and patted the cloth on top of his hand.

Pressing it down, and across his back hand, then moved onto his fingers. "How are you doing?" she asked him, starting with his index finger. "Better!" He replied. "Good." Then she starts with the index finger by the top part.

And placed the cloth around it, and twisted it around the finger a few times. Then did the same with the second half. Then repeated the same around three of his other fingers, with the same method. By twisting the cloth around them.

Then, once she's finished with his arm. Vanessa stands up, by propping up her foot on the ground, then pushed up onto it, standing up on her two leg's feeling a slight numbness in her toes.

She steps on over to the bucket, in quick pace. Then she knealts down, and grabs the cold water bottle, to rinse it again. She twisted the cloth, then sprayed a bit of water on top, to re dampen it for a second use.

She placed the bottle down. Then she came back, and sat down next to him, to wash back over the arm, to get the soap off. She goes back over his arm, then down to his elbow arm. And on top of his back hand and wiped down. Sun continued to play, seemingly to be relaxed, and happy from the boredom of this bath.

She washed his hand, then turns his hand over, and wiped down his palm. And the five of his fingers, wiping them over, while tossing over the cloth over them, and twisting the cloth around them.

To get every part of his fingers with care. Then, once she's done. She get's back up, and goes over to the bucket, to re wash the cloth, and re set it with the cold soapy water, she re adjusted the cloth again, then grabbed the soapy water bottle.

Then sprayed it, getting the cloth wet. And she fiddles with it, then put's the soapy bottle down, then returns back to Sun, who is building another scene, for the action figure to go to.

Vanessa smiles at the sight of Sun playing. Then she goes on over to the other side of him, and sit's down next to him. Getting his other arm in her hands.

She reaches up to his arm, then she begins to wipe from the top, in small wipes up and down, then moved in circular motions down his arm, then into the inner arm, wiping down, then back up.

Then she moved her hand, back up and wipes across, and over the small hatch cabinet, on his arm, them worked her way down wiping, until she moves over to his elbow arm, to wipe it all over.

In the inner way, then the outer way, then like the same thing, she grabs his wrist, and exposed his palm to clean too. She first flips the cloth over, then she goes down and wipes into his palm. Pressing her two fingers, into the spot. Then she wipes it around, and then moves over to the tip of the thumb.

Same thing, she flips the cloth over, then twists it around the thumb, and once more for good measure, then does the same thing, for the slower half. Sun stay's distracted, walking the figure down in between the walls of the toy bricks he's created.

Then she lifts her hand away, then moves on over to his index finger, putting the cloth up top, then twisting it around, then down to the second part, and doing the same thing.

And again, for each finger, working her way through, first at the top, and twisting and twist again to make sure, and repeat on the second one, then the third one, then the pinky.

Making sure to get each one clean, then she let's go, and let's him continue to play, and build. Then, she returns back to the bucket, to rinse.

Preparing for the next soap, for his back. She rinses the cloth off, with the water, then rinse and repeat, then get's up and comes back over to Sun, enjoying himself.

To wipe off his other arm, she washed. She sat down next to him, and picked up his arm, before wiping off the top part, and going around the areas.

Around the back end, then the inner arm bit this time. Then moved down to the elbow arm then pat it down, then to the inner part, and all the way around the back part, to his upper hand.

Then she wiped it down, then the first piece of the thumb, using the same method. Using the twisting motion, for the top, then the bottom.

Then repeats the same thing, to the rest of his fingers, with a swift motion of her hands. Then gone back over them. Once she's done, she get's back up, feeling some pain in her legs, after sitting down on them for so long. Then she walks over to the bucket to rinse again, with the cold water.

She shakes the cloth open, then sprays the cold water on it, then once the rag is soaked. She set's the bottle down, in a release from reaching down, when it thumps against the other bottle.

Then twists it into the bucket, making more splashes inside of it. Then she unravels the cloth, then whips it in the air to flick off the remaining water off of it.

Then she adjusts it, back in her hand again, and flipped it over this time, for a cleaner side. Then, she grabs the soapy water bottle, feeling the cold water. Then she sprayed that one, on top. To prepare for the treatment for his back.

She squeezes the suds into it, then quickly places down the soap bottle too, then turns around and say's to Sun. "Okay, we're up to withe second last part now!" She say's happily relieving for herself, too.

"Second part? What's the last part?" Sun said, turning his head at her. "The last part, is going to be me washing your pants, and accessories after!" She answered him, holding her laughter. And walking up to him.

She sit's down behind him, and only pressed her hand on his back, when Sun moved, and he starts to lay down. "I'm laying down, I'm tired of sitting." He tells her, then she say's.

"That's fine by me. You can relax." She say's letting him, move stuff out of the way, and lays flat down on his stomach, then Vanessa get's down with the cold cloth, then sits down next to him with crossed legs.

Then she places her hand on the top half of his back, then she wiped around in circular motions. Her soft touch soothed Sun, and his tense posture. He relaxed up, resting his head in his arms, almost feeling like he could take a snooze at any moment. "That feels so nice!" He muffled quietly in his light nap.

Vanessa wiped over his shoulders, then worked her hand work around the hook part. Then moved down to his lower back, wiping it down, messaging it in the spot, wiping off the dirty stains, that took some effort to take off.

She wiped up and down the sides of his body. Then once his back is clean. She tells Sun, "Okay, I finished cleaning your back!" while she was carefully picking her self up, on her worked legs, due to her muscle pain.

All due to her sitting down, and standing up a few times. "Mmmph..." Sun replied. Vanessa walks to the bucket, stretching the cloth in her hand, still talking to Sun "Wake up sleepy head. We have one more thing to do."

Then she decided to rinse the cloth once more time, before going to gather up Sun's clothing. She retrieves the cold water bottle, after flicking the cloth open in the air, then spraying it with a few quick splashes.

Then she bends over to put it back down again. Then she gives the cloth a good twist the water drops falling into the bucket.

The drops falling into the bucket making clear dripping sounds in it with it's puddle formation that she had created in it, through the rinsing.

Then whip in the air to shake off it's dampness from the cloth, the small droplets falling from the air. Flowing the cloth dryer. Then she flicks it over the brim of the bucket, then turns around to find Sun...still...'sleeping.' "Come on Sun!" She say's smirking, "Come on, up you get!" "Mmph!"

"Come on, up!" she commands, not angrily, putting a foot under his tummy. "Mmph!" "Up!" she nudged, "Mmmph!" He whines. "Up!" Then he finally turns to the side, "Do I have to?" He asked in a whiny voice. "Yes! Now come on!" She say's to him encouragingly. "Fine..." He agreed, then he gets up.

Vanessa then steps out of the way, "We can use the mat, as the towel that will cover you up." She explained, then Sun sheepishly stepped off of it, "This is so embarrassing..." He grunted.

Vanessa held out her hand, "Come on, give it to me." she commands him. Sun crossed his arms, and taps his foot on the floor. Holding onto little tolerance. "You're a mechanical being. No one is going to see anything!" Vanessa assures him, smiling. "I feel embarrassed." He replied, lifting his arms up in the cross.

And holding his head down, like an impatient kid. "Okay, I'll tell you what? You can just stand behind something. And you can give me your pants. I'll throw the towel over you, so no one can see. And I will need your shoes!" She instructed. "Why do you need my shoes for?" he called out, clearly acting ridicules.

"So, I can wash them silly! Gotta have clean shoes!" She say's playfully. "B-But how am I suppose to walk?" Sun started. "Come on, Sun! I know how much you like talk around it.

Now, here. I'll give you the towel! Hold one moment..." She said to him directly, carrying on with the fun attitude. Then she sweeps the mat off the floor, and flips it over Sun. "There. Go on."

"Sheesh, you're bossy!" Sun huffs his final say, before walking past her, and off to the far side of the castle wall. Away from the wind screen sight. From the outside mall scenery. Vanessa then decided to take this moment, and come back to the bucket, to collect his frills, and two of the ribbons, she placed down to pick them back up.

She thought, she might as well, just return the ribbons, back to Sun for now. Since they don't really need washing. So, she picked up the frills, and put them in the bucket. And picked, up the ribbons in one hand, then just stood around to wait for Sun to come back.

Then, in a couple of seconds, she hears fast footsteps, walk out of the entrance, and Sun appeared walking up to her with the white sheets, covering around his while body, even his head is burrowing half way out of the sheets, with the way that he's covering himself.

Is specially cocooned, like a jacket. There, he returned with the pants in his hand, when he held it out to her. "Here." He say's, "Thank you!"

She say's, then takes his pant's them threw it over her shoulder, then lends out her hand that has the ribbons in her palm. "There you go, they don't need to be washed much." He begrudgingly accepts them, then slowly wraps them back on.

Acting on his begrudging behavior. Then once he wraps back around the ribbons, on both of his wrists correctly, Vanessa waited with her hand still out. "Shoes too." She added, politely. "Yes Ma'am." He answered pouty. "Oh Sun...You're so funny, you know that?" She say's now giving him a genuine smile, even though she is enjoying this.

"Don't worry, you'll look good soon.", he bends down, holding onto one side of the sheet, to avoid exposure of his legs so much. Even though his knees have shown, but he still bent down far enough, to cover as much as he can. He went along with it, anyway.

He grabs one foot, then turns it off, from the buckle then revealed the hook, that is attached to it. Then handed one up to Vanessa, she took it, and held it under one arm, then she waited for the other one.

He changed feet, then did the same as well, until he is standing on both of his springy toes, that he has lot's of practice on, then handed her his second shoe. "That a boy! Thank you very much!"

Vanessa praised, then turned around to place down the shoes into the bucket too. "How long is this going to take?" He asked politely, now Vanessa takes a serious tone, when she turned back around to Sun, lifting the bucket in her arms.

"It will take some time. Roughly about an hour. Perhaps a half an hour, or a 40 minute more for a full air dry." She said to him, honestly. "Awww, great..." Sun moaned awaiting the dreadful boring wait, he will have to get himself, to endure to get his clothes back.

"I'll try not to make it too long, if I can. Be patient for me, okay? I'll be back with you shortly? You can do it, Sun!" She encourages him, then leaves the Daycare, leaving Sun to wait-Back in the daycare.

Sun sighed looking up at the ceiling, while childishly rocking himself back and forth, thinking of something that he wan'ts to do. But couldn't think of what, other than saying in the air "What do I wan't to dooo??" He moaned out, then looked on over to the children's tables, then one Imaginary light bulb clicked above his head.

"I could draw something! For a little while, but then I would be bored after...Ooooh my tolerance levels sure do like to wear me thin, doesn't it?" He teased himself.

Then makes himself busy, as much as he can to stick with drawing, and just wait patiently, if he get's off track. He walks over to the table, finding himself a piece of paper, "Now, where is that glitter glue? Glitter glue, me wan't!" He demands to himself.

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Vanessa throws back together Sun's clean clothes, accessories, and shoes, put at the bottom of the bucket. After being dried out. After a long wait from the air dry after washing them.

"Done! Now, let's get back to the Daycare, and see how Sun is doing?" She say's feeling accomplished, with her work.

Before she left, however, she made sure to collect 2 more Important things. Because, she has a hunch that knowing Sun's talents in creativity, with one of his favorite things to do in past time.

He can make himself very messy. At least that she can hope on with that, is that surely he shouldn't of gotten too carried away.

Only time will tell, until she get there. "I'll just...Go and fetch them." She admitted. And goes, and quickly get herself, a new cloth, and re fill the cold water bottle, to use.

Then threw them back inside the bucket, before leaving. Then she grabbed it, with the set of back up supplies. She threw Sun's pants over her shoulder, to make this trip much easier for carrying the bucket, last second and left her office.

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Vanessa arrived back at the daycare, then opened the door "Sunny! I'm back!" She announced, then comes inside. "Sunny?" She called out, walking down the daycare, "I wonder what you have been up to?"

She say's walking past the Monkey bars, seeing that things had been kept relatively spotless, till she saw a whole scatter of papers, pens, crayons, and splotches of glitter glue in droplets on paper, and a few drops on the section of the floor, to where he played in.

It's no surprise for her. Vanessa put's down the bucket. Then notices that Sun, isn't around. As expected. "It's pretty obvious." She started, tempting to play along, "Hmm...I wonder where he is?" She adds on, then she hears some rustling over at the ball pit, cutting off the fun a little too soon than what it started.

Or what she had anticipated that started, then up appeared Sun, still in his cocoon sheet, walking up to her. Almost submissive, about something..."Oh there you are, did you have fun?-"

She starts off by saying, "Oh, eh heh. Hi Vanessa! I have been expecting you!" He say's a little anxious, for no reason. "I see you have been keeping yourself busy, sorry it took so long! But, I finally finished washing them! So you are going to feel so comfortable, come on out!" She asks him out.

"Okay..." Sun say's, then he quickly comes up from the pink bridge, holding onto the sheet, it doesn't take long for Vanessa to catch on what he is hiding. He tries to come up, with an excuse to get back his pant's and frills.

He approaches her submissively, then goes up to Vanessa, reaching his hand out, but still making it obvious. "I'm just gonna take back my pant's." He say's formally, then takes it off her shoulder, with a sweep,

"Thank you very much. Then, I'll go back and-" He say's Immediately turning around almost shuffling away making it out to be, nothing shown "Sunny." She stopped him, he flinches "Yes?" "Show me your hands?"

Vanessa straight up said, folding her arms. Not fazed by the slightest. "No! No, nothing's wrong with them!" He answers talking louder, "Sun." "I don't know what-" "I saw right through you."

"What-? It's not much!" He finished in defeat, and showing out his hands, poking them out of the sheet. There are smudged with the glitter glue bottle, that he has used for finger painting. Into the palms, and over his fingers. But, it's another style of glue painting.

Vanessa giggled, then she looked over to the bucket, through amusement. "I knew I had to get the cold water again!" she say's. Then Sun caught on, and Immediately, hid them back in again.

"I can wash them!" He started, already regretting it, waving his hands. "You'll need a cloth!" She say's, somewhat carrying the tease.

"No please! I-I can wash them!" He begged, "No!" Vanessa told him, now firmly, "I'll wash them very carefully!", "I said, no!" Vanessa tells him again, collecting the cold water bottle,

"I know how to use a cloth, you know?" He tells her getting firm, too. Vanessa turned to him, and studied his body language, now seeing how serious he is.

Then she thinks to herself, and stops herself from getting carried away, then say's "Alright. Here." She accepts, then hands the tools over to Sun, respectfully, then he takes it.

"Thank you, Vanessa. You know how much this matters, to me." Vanessa nods, and notes that these robots should be treated with more independency, despite the rules, their given. They shouldn't be bossed around, so much. So, she let's him do his own thing.

Once he finishes up, he hands her back the bottle and cloth, the cloth being covered with the glitter glue. "There you go! I'm done!" She takes both the cloth, and the bottle from his hands, then he turns around and goes over, to pick up his pants he put down, on the floor,

then over to the bucket to reclaim his frills, then digs down to claim his shoes back, also. When he found them. He grabbed his shoes, then plopped them ontop of his frills also.

Then carries them over to the place, where he gone to last time. "I'll bring this back, once I'm changed. " He notifies her, before stepping into the back end of the castle.

"You're fine!" She assures him, then waits patiently.

(I forgot about his shoes! Ha ha ha.)

Some time has passed, then she hears jingling sounds step up from the far side of the room, then Vanessa looked over and looks happy with his new look.

She gasped, and say's "Hey! Welcome back, you are looking gorgeous Sunshine!" She complemented, then he twirls around and does a spin jump landing on one foot.

"Hoo hoo! I feel great, and fresher than ever!" Vanessa clapped her hands "Well, I guess my task is done! You are free to spend the rest of the day, for yourself Sun!" She say's satisfied, then goes to pick up her bucket.

"Have a good day, Sun!" she say's to him. But, then suddenly, he came over to her when she was just half turned, and he hugs her knocking the bucket in her arms, "Sun?" She spoke right away, confused.

"I really appreciate your help, Vanessa." He said, sounding sad. "You're very welcome!" She reminds him, with a smile. Then, she wasn't expecting this reaction from him, when he looked at her, that she stared at him with a solemn, face.

"Don't tell me to 'Be positive.' I can't be like that, all the time. I find it hard to, I don't have another adult here to help keep me company! I try to make friends, but they don't like to talk to me. Because, they either find me creepy, or annoying. But, you are one of these people, that I really like! Because, you are good to me!

Don't you get it? I deserve respect too! I haven't been getting it lately. I force myself to get happy, even though I don't at times. The only times, I do, is because of people like you. And I crave that! I crave it, so much!", then he tilts his head at her, then added

"So thank you...You made my day!" Vanessa blinked, and took a while to process what he had said, with taking in the heat with what she has been doing earlier. "Woah..." She worded.

"I had no idea, you have been feeling this way. I mean...I've known you've been angry. But...Not at that excessive amount of stress." She say's, giving a proper and wording diligently in response. Sun let's up.

"I wouldn't expect you to. This shows that I do a good job hiding it." Sun say's seriously. Then, without mentioning anything else, she set's down the bucket, then with respect she holds out her arms onto him, then pulls him into a hug.

Sun brings up his hands around her, and takes her hug. They spend a few good moments, then she notices that his body tension relaxes, then they pull away from each other, then she asks him a sincere question. "Do you want me to stay with you, for the day then?"

Sun raises his hand, and dismissed it. "Nah, I'll be fine." He say's, she turns her head with concern, moving her eye brows with a concerned expression. "Are you sure? Cause, I'll let you take that break." She offered, "No." He say's sharply, then ads "Besides, you are an officer. So, I don't want you to get into trouble.

Please Vanessa, I'll be okay!" Vanessa sighed, and looked down in defeat, and felt gutted with Sun's determination. But if that what he wants, then she will do as he wishes. Then, she made up her mind, then grabbed the bucket, again in her arms.

Turned, and before leaving, she turns to him, with this final say. "Then, I'll come over and visit you, to make sure that you are alright. Because, you're health matters. It's Important to me. And I admire you, for letting me know!", he nods. Then she nods, then said quietly, "We'll keep this between you and me." She winked, then with that she leaves, and her job is done.

Then Sun's job of cleaning up begins! "Ugh...Why do I do these things to myself?' He questioned stubbornly, and felt a little bit of disappointed pain, by slapping a hand on his face. Once he realized, he had to clean up, the mess he made.

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End.

[ohshy]

Apart from Hipercy, what are your favorite punch out fics?

im assuming u meant ships right?? IN AAANY CASE, here u go bro !!

Royal army (von kaiser x king hippo) is definitely up there as my favorite PO ship. I love how it started out as a crackship from a joke in animal crossing but then just delved into Whatever the fuck w/ maber KJDHKSJF.

But seriously though !! they just Work somehow... like you have both of them having royal names (albeit i hc hippos is an actual title he carries, and kaisers more of a stage name bc of his interest in royal n military history). Plus, I think kaiser would b very interested in learning more ab hippos culture n hippo would b happy to indulge him. It's what elevates Kaiser from ''just another peasant'' to Hippo as someone who he's willing to talk to! Not many people take his title seriously as hippo island's fairly unknown outside of the south pacific hes from, so when they first meet, Kaiser's a huge breath of fresh air to him.

Seeing as Kaiser is a polyglot as well in my HC, I like to think he was one of the few people in the WVBA who had prior knowledge of Hippo Island and it's language. Although Kaiser can only speak a couple basic sentences and struggles with the pronounciation, Hippo still appreciates the effort. In turn, Kaiser has also taught Hippo some German, the language being easier to Hippo due to the sounds made.

Totally T4T (tism4tism).

ALSO imagine the hippo island kids n kaiser's academy kids going on some type of exchange w/ one another !! theyd have the time of their lives !! The kids would totally get into an argument over who's cooler too.

They're a lot like opposites attracting as well. Hippo, although he is responsible to his people, is generally a lot more easygoing n defo helps kaiser let loose a bit more like how he did in his 20s (berliner party days baybe !!!) But Hippo learns a lot from Kaiser too ! he really admires his work ethic, and loves how much of a leader n fatherly he is to the kids he teaches. He admires his resilience as well, both having confided much into eachother. His resilicience almost like a... MACHINE?!? Either way, both have positions in which they lead in some way, and theyve both taught eachother a lot.

Also they bond over dead mother figures (hippos who died of illness, and kaiser's who went missing when he was very young.)

As for how they'd butt heads, would be kaisers endless need to seek approval due to his dad being emotionally constipated, and hippos occasional emotional outbursts (poor emotional regulation). also hippos friendly teasing (how he shows affection, aside from physical contact) sometimes strikes a nerve w/ kaiser, esp if it's about his age or career.

One time, after a particularly exhausting match, kaiser just fell asleep on hippos lap as the latter was holding him. Aran walked by in disbelief, w/ hippo going ''heh, jealous? ;)'' w/ aran going ''Nah, not at all''

One last thing.... hippo sees kaiser as a kitten (thank you maber for that idea i am obsessed); kaiser's height n physique r significantly smaller than hippo's, leading to hippo often times patting him on the head n even picking him up like he weighs nothing. Kaiser secretly rly likes it, but he won't tell him directly because yknow... hes got a rep to protect.

^ Kaiser to Hippo

other ships i like include.... Red bull (soda x bull) burnt bread (joe x aran) u can blame charlie for both those (jk jk bro im glad u got me into those ships. But please read his fics, thats how i got into them) and disco kid x heike kagero !!

Red bull is just very neat bc of the whole, in simple terms, sunshine x grump dynamic (and im saying simple terms bc charlie's fics flesh out their relationship A LOT more n its basically the best ok go read his fics), burnt bread bc of how unlikely yet funny it is, and disco x heike bc, eventhough theyve never interacted, you KNOW theyd absolutely be bffs at the very least.

[1997thebracket]

Round 3

Surge: Have you got the urge? Surge was a bizarrely memorable half-soda half-energy drink distributed by Coca-Cola as a direct competitor to Mountain Dew-- that desire for market domination was so central to the drink's purpose that its original whitepaper name was MDK, an acronym for Mountain Dew Killer. Bit harsh. The caffeine levels of Surge were comparable to its lemon-lime peers stateside, but you wouldn't believe it from the electrifying can design or radiant green coloring. It did, however, contain maltodextrin and higher levels of sugar carbohydrates, making it marketable to young athletes for a "sustainable jolt." They ran slogans like Feed the Rush! and Life's a Scream! to further enhance the feeling that your heart may be beating too fast for your kid-sized body when you drank it. Surge could be most often found in the old vending machine in my church's basement, but your local gas station may have gotten a few cases too.

Men In Black: Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Men in Black is a sci-fi comedy, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, which would go on to spawn a franchise after the success of the 1997 film. It centers around a secret government agency known as the Men in Black, tasked with monitoring and regulating extraterrestrial activity on Earth; these agents, notably our protagonists Agent J and Agent K, protect humanity from aliens living among us and ensure the world remains oblivious to their existence. The franchise was praised by critics and audiences alike for its unique screenplay, action sequences, and the humor and chemistry of the lead actors. Over the years, Men in Black has expanded to include multiple sequels, an animated series and spin-offs, all contributing to its enduring popularity as a cheekier take on the sci-fi genre.

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I love the headcannon of Sephiroth having a secret sweet tooth. Because it just goes in contrast with his manly soldier image.

Poor thing was probably never allowed sweets growing up. He gets to eat mush all day and maybe some actual non-synthetic protein if he's lucky. Even as an adult, his diet is constantly monitored and regulated, to the point where obtaining actual tasty food or treats is a covert operation.

Gast gives him some cake for his birthday and he breaks down bawling because it's so good. Or him having absolutely no idea how ice cream even works which involves Genesis or Angeal having to show him how to eat it because it's dripping everywhere and he looks completely ridiculous.

I think Sephiroth has a deep fondness for fruit. And thankfully, he's permitted to eat as much as he wants as a substitute for something fattier. So yes. Sephiroth loves pears. You're welcome.

Sephiroth also has a secret fondness for soda here and there. It's absolutely terrible for you, but he's also a night owl and he likes the sugar rush whenever he's up doing reports. He kind of just caaaaaaasually sneaks by the vending machines and snatches one when the cameras aren't looking.

[waterplant24]

Carbonated Soft Drink Plant Business Plan

Introduction

The carbonated soft drink industry is a vibrant and ever-growing market, with consumers across the globe enjoying a wide range of flavored beverages. Establishing a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant offers a lucrative opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to tap into this dynamic industry. This guide will walk you through the essential steps to set up your own carbonated soft drink production facility.

Understanding the Carbonated Soft Drink Plant Business

A Carbonated Soft Drink Plant is a specialized facility where carbonated beverages are produced, bottled, and prepared for distribution. These plants manufacture a variety of soft drinks, including cola, lemon-lime, and fruit-flavored sodas. Understanding the types of drinks your plant will produce is crucial as it influences the equipment and processes you’ll need.

Market Research and Feasibility Study

Before you invest in a Carbonated Soft Drink Plants, conducting thorough market research is essential. You'll need to assess the demand for different types of soft drinks in your target market, identify your competitors, and understand the regulatory environment. This information will help you develop a business plan that aligns with market needs and legal requirements.

Business Plan Components

Your business plan is the blueprint for your Carbonated Soft Drink Plant. It should include an executive summary that outlines your business model, objectives, and vision. Follow this with a detailed mission statement that reflects your commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

Choosing the Right Location

Selecting the right location for your plant is a critical decision. Your site should be strategically located near raw material suppliers, such as sugar and flavoring agents, and should have easy access to distribution networks. Additionally, consider the availability of utilities like water and electricity, as these are vital for the operation of your Carbonated Soft Drink Machines.

Essential Equipment for a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant

Setting up a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant requires a range of specialized equipment. The most important of these is the Carbonated Soft Drink Machines, which handle the mixing and carbonation of the beverages. There are various types of Carbonated Soft Drink Plant Machines available, each designed for different production capacities and processes.

Carbonated Soft Drinks Filling Machine is also crucial, as it ensures that the soft drinks are filled efficiently and hygienically into bottles or cans. Working with a reputable Soft Drinks Filling Machine Manufacturer will ensure that your equipment is of high quality and meets industry standards.

Production Process in a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant

The production process begins with sourcing and preparing the ingredients, including water, sugar, flavorings, and carbonation. These ingredients are then mixed in precise proportions using a Carbonated Soft Drink Machine. Once the mixture is ready, it undergoes carbonation, where carbon dioxide is dissolved into the liquid under pressure.

Next comes the filling stage, where the carbonated soft drinks are bottled using a Soft Drinks Filling Machines. This machine is designed to handle high-speed filling while maintaining the quality and consistency of the product. The bottles are then sealed, labeled, and packed for distribution.

Choosing the Right Equipment Supplier

Choosing the right supplier for your machinery is a key factor in the success of your plant. A reliable Soft Drinks Filling Machine Supplier will offer not only high-quality machines but also excellent after-sales service and support. If you plan to export your products, working with a Soft Drinks Filling Machine Exporter who understands international standards and regulations is vital.

Staffing and Workforce Requirements

Operating a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant requires a skilled and trained workforce. You'll need technicians who can operate and maintain the Carbonated Soft Drink Plant Machines, as well as staff for quality control, logistics, and management. Implementing proper training and safety protocols will ensure that your operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Cost Estimation and Budget Planning

Establishing a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant involves significant capital investment. Your budget should include the cost of land, construction, and machinery, such as the Carbonated Soft Drink Machine and the Carbonated Soft Drinks Filling Machine. Operational expenses like raw materials, utilities, and labor should also be factored into your financial planning.

Marketing and Sales Strategy

To succeed in the competitive soft drink market, you need a strong marketing and sales strategy. This includes creating a unique brand identity, developing appealing packaging, and establishing distribution channels. Consider partnering with retailers, wholesalers, and online platforms to reach a wider audience. Pricing is another critical aspect; your prices should be competitive while ensuring profitability.

Sustainability and Environmental Considerations

With growing concerns about environmental impact, it's important to incorporate sustainable practices into your business model. This could include using eco-friendly packaging, reducing water and energy consumption during production, and recycling waste. Implementing these practices will not only help protect the environment but also appeal to eco-conscious consumers.

Risk Management and Challenges

Every business faces risks, and the Soft Drink Plant is no exception. These risks can include fluctuations in raw material prices, changes in consumer preferences, and regulatory challenges. Having a risk management plan in place will help you anticipate and mitigate these challenges, ensuring the long-term success of your business.

Growth and Expansion Strategies

As your business grows, you may consider expanding your production capacity or entering new markets. Scaling your operations will likely require additional investments in equipment, such as more advanced Carbonated Soft Drink Plant Machines, and hiring more staff. You may also want to innovate by introducing new flavors or packaging formats to attract more customers.

Conclusion

Starting a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant is a challenging but rewarding endeavor. By carefully planning your business, investing in quality machinery like the Soft Drink Machine, and implementing effective marketing strategies, you can build a successful and sustainable business. Stay focused on quality, efficiency, and innovation, and you'll be well-positioned to thrive in this competitive industry.

FAQs

What are the key factors to consider when starting a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant?

Key factors include market research, location, quality machinery, regulatory compliance, and a solid business plan.

How do I choose the right Carbonated Soft Drink Machine?

Consider your production capacity, budget, and the reputation of the manufacturer. Consult with a reliable supplier for recommendations.

What is the role of a Soft Drinks Filling Machine Manufacturer?

A manufacturer provides the machines necessary for filling and sealing bottles. They ensure that the machines meet quality standards and offer support for maintenance and upgrades.

How much does it cost to establish a Carbonated Soft Drink Plant?

Costs vary based on the scale of operations, location, and equipment. Expect to invest significantly in machinery, land, and construction.

[pureinsanitywebcomic]

You decide to talk a walk around the town and see some of the sights. First is this hallway leading from The Rack to an Animus neighborhood. Not much to see, just some vending machines and an Animus girl drinking a soda. You try to just walk past her, no need to get into a conversa-

"Hey Leatha' "

Shit. Guess she wants to talk. Haven't been called Leather in awhile, and thankfully you don't take offense to it. You already use slurs casually, would be a bit hypocritical to get offended when someone else uses one.

(OOC: Leather is a slur used to describe Hums because 1) they don't have fur, showing their bare skin and 2) they rely on wearing clothes to stay warm, while Animus and other races don't need to wear clothing cause they either have fur or aren't affected by weather)

>Sup Rug

You decide to use the less offensive slur cause you don't want to get into an all out fight. Rug is seen as more of an "acceptable" slur used in casual conversation, but calling someone a tick rug is enough to start a fight, and you already had to deal with that Mannequin.

"What's a Hum like yaself doin' in this neck of tha woods?"

>Takin' a stroll, not much else

"Ya sure ya ain't wanna stroll 'round tha higha sections? Not much for ya smoothskins ta enjoy down 'ere"

>Maybe if I was here 10 Cycles ago I'd agree with you, but you learn to appreciate shit more after a few tours in the military

"Shit, shoulda guessed ya was a soldia type what with the jacket. What branch ya serve for?"

>Kaisers Finest, VH Defense Division. Was able to become a First Sergeant, but Kaisers Law meant I wasn't allowed to stay a permanent soldier.

"Shit, yous went to fuckin' Void Hell? What's it like out there?"

>What it says on the tin, pure Hell. Nothing but old ruins and horrid abominations under an ever red sky.

"Damn, sounds rough."

>More than you'll ever know

"Shit, well thank ya for ya service. I ain't inta the Kaiser, but I can't help but respect' a soldia' "

>You're welcome…and thank you

"No problem, though I gots one thing ta say ta ya"

>Whatcha want to say?"

"I think ya should trim ya beard a bit, shits honestly a mess"

You caress your beard, contemplating what she said

>…I'll think about it.

You two part ways, but you decide to get a soft drink before you go. Just a can of root beer, an old world classic. And while you're at it you'll take her advice and trim your beard. You use the rusty knife you got earlier to do it, thank God you were taught shaving techniques during your time in the military.

After your trim, you simply drop your old beard hair onto the floor. The moment it touches the ground, a stray rat rushes towards it and jumps into it, making a home out of your old beard. You're not even a little mad, that rat took an opportunity and seized it. Good on you little buddy, hope you enjoy the new home.

As you sip on your root beer, you notice a bunch of Animus around you. Seems like the neighborhood is lively at this time of day, and a couple of them are even Neons. You haven't seen one yourself, but your military buddies told you about them, they're apparently a fringe subgroup of the Rebel culture hitting the big city realms where they dye their hair and fur unnatural colors and wear bright neon clothes, though one is simply wearing some old PJs, guess they're just about to head to bed.

Of course this neighborhood would also have a drug vendor, and most of them are already high off some of its product. You used one of these vendors before you were sent on your first tour, it holds every legal drug you can find, from simple shit like O.W.W (Old World Weed) and Morphine Gum to crazy shit like Void Hell Shrooms and Vein Vines, it's kind of crazy now that you think about it. Kaiser made pretty much all drugs legal before you were born, and thankfully had the foresight to make sure it wouldnt turn the Realms into a total drug haven by having all of it being regulated by The Kaisers Dispensary, along with anti-addiction shots and extra funding to mental help services.

You also notices the posters, one for that new PDA that came out, and another for SaltyBet. You heard good things about the new PDA, it has a 480p screen, a better keypad, has a built in video player, the works. You think about getting one yourself, but you don't have the money right now. Maybe when you start getting your military benefits you'll buy one. As for SaltyBet, it's nice to see that's still a thing. SaltyBet was apparently one of the last digital remnants of an old civilization long before The Fragmentation, and the Kaiser decided to not only keep it running, but even have it broadcasted on every TV and computer in all the Realms, and soon the new PDA as well, which only further boosts the sales of the thing. Course it's also the only legal form of gambling, so that helped with its popularity.

You exit the Animus neighborhood, and into a small water canal area. Not many people here, just a Mannequin, some hoodie guy, and…a Marionette? You haven't seen a Marionette in ages, you thought they were still in the Protected Realms…guess the Kaiser decided to loosen the rules for them a bit. It's strange how Mannequins, the second highest class in society is related to the absolute lowest, Mannequins.

You check what the Marionette is doing. Seems like he's playing an instrument. You haven't seen one like this before…could it be something new? Maybe you should ask a local about it, you don't want to distract the Marionette, you know better than to do that, especially after one of your military buddies was cut down by one in a single sword slice. You learned that Marionettes are not to be fucked with that day, they are masters of combat. Only reason they were in the Protected Realms was because they were classed as endangered, and made to go to Protected Realms to make sure they didn't go fully extinct.

Oh shit, the Marionette is looking at you, gotta act casual, just avoid eye contact and walk into the first store you see. Mannequins are an easy fight, fighting a Marionette would a death sentence for you, especially with only a rusty knife to protect you.

(OOC: This one took awhile, but hopefully it's length makes up for the time it took. Also I had to repost it cause I forgot to properly tag it)

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[1bar-objects]

(via Co2 Gas Regulator, N2 Gas Regulator, Soda Regulator)

[xvendpro]

Fresh Food Vending: The Delicious Revolution You Didn't Know You Needed

In today's fast-paced world, convenience is king. As our lives get busier, the need for quick, nutritious food options grows stronger. Enter "The Fresh Frontier" – a groundbreaking concept that's transforming the landscape of food accessibility. Fresh food vending machines are no longer just a futuristic dream; they're becoming a reality, offering healthy, delicious options on the go. This blog post will dive into the revolution of fresh food vending, exploring its benefits, challenges, implementation strategies, and real-world success stories.

The Need for Fresh Food Vending

As urbanization and hectic lifestyles become the norm, many people find themselves relying on fast food and pre-packaged snacks, which are often laden with preservatives and unhealthy ingredients. The fresh food vending revolution addresses this issue by providing convenient access to wholesome, nutritious meals. Fresh food vending machines are stocked with items like salads, sandwiches, fruits, and even full meals, ensuring that healthy choices are available 24/7.

The Benefits of Fresh Food Vending Machines

Convenience: Fresh food vending machines offer unparalleled convenience. They provide access to nutritious meals in places where traditional food options may be limited, such as office buildings, universities, hospitals, and transportation hubs.

Healthier Options: Unlike traditional vending machines that offer sugary snacks and sodas, fresh food vending machines are stocked with items that promote better health. This shift towards healthier options can help combat issues like obesity and diabetes.

Quality and Freshness: These machines are designed to keep food fresh for longer periods. Advanced refrigeration and packaging technologies ensure that the food remains fresh and safe to eat.

Variety: Fresh food vending machines offer a wide range of options, catering to different dietary preferences and restrictions. Whether you're vegan, gluten-free, or simply looking for a low-calorie meal, there's something for everyone.

Sustainability: Many fresh food vending machines use eco-friendly packaging and sourcing practices, reducing the environmental impact compared to traditional vending options.

Challenges in Implementing Fresh Food Vending

Logistics and Supply Chain: Ensuring a consistent supply of fresh ingredients can be challenging. This requires efficient logistics and supply chain management to prevent food wastage and maintain quality.

Cost: Fresh food vending machines are more expensive to operate than traditional machines due to the need for refrigeration and frequent restocking. Balancing affordability and profitability is crucial.

Technology: Advanced technology is needed to maintain the freshness and safety of the food. This includes temperature control, real-time monitoring, and user-friendly interfaces.

Consumer Acceptance: Educating consumers about the benefits of fresh food vending and encouraging them to choose these options over traditional snacks can be a hurdle.

Regulations and Compliance: Navigating food safety regulations and ensuring compliance with health standards is essential to prevent any legal or health issues.

Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Fresh Food Vending Business

Market Research

Conduct thorough market research to understand the demand for fresh food vending in your target area. Identify potential locations such as office buildings, schools, gyms, and hospitals where there is a high demand for convenient, healthy food options

2. Business Plan

Develop a detailed business plan outlining your goals, target market, competition, pricing strategy, and financial projections. Include a marketing plan to promote your vending machines and attract customers.

3. Sourcing Fresh Ingredients

Establish relationships with local farmers, suppliers, and food producers to source fresh, high-quality ingredients. Focus on seasonal and organic produce to offer the best quality to your customers.

4. Selecting the Right Vending Machines

Choose vending machines that are specifically designed for fresh food. These machines should have advanced refrigeration systems, real-time monitoring capabilities, and user-friendly interfaces. Research various suppliers and compare features, prices, and customer reviews.

5. Menu Development

Create a diverse menu that caters to different dietary preferences and restrictions. Include options like salads, sandwiches, wraps, smoothies, and snacks. Ensure that your menu items are not only nutritious but also delicious and visually appealing.

6. Packaging and Branding

Invest in eco-friendly packaging that keeps the food fresh and minimizes environmental impact. Develop a strong brand identity with attractive logos, color schemes, and marketing materials that reflect the quality and freshness of your products.

7. Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Set up an efficient supply chain to ensure a consistent supply of fresh ingredients. Develop a logistics plan for restocking the vending machines regularly and maintaining the freshness and quality of the food.

8. Technology Integration

Implement technology solutions to monitor the performance of your vending machines in real-time. Use data analytics to track sales, manage inventory, and identify popular items. Consider implementing mobile payment options and loyalty programs to enhance the customer experience.

9. Health and Safety Compliance

Ensure that your operations comply with local health and safety regulations. Regularly inspect the vending machines for cleanliness and hygiene. Train your staff on food safety practices and maintain detailed records of your compliance efforts.

10. Marketing and Promotion

Promote your fresh food vending business through various marketing channels. Use social media, email marketing, and local advertising to reach your target audience. Highlight the convenience, health benefits, and quality of your products to attract customers.

11. Customer Feedback and Improvement

Encourage customers to provide feedback on their experience with your vending machines. Use this feedback to make continuous improvements to your menu, packaging, and overall service. Regularly update your offerings based on customer preferences and market trends.

Case Study: A Success Story in Fresh Food Vending

Fresh Bites Vending

Location: New York City

Overview: Fresh Bites Vending launched in 2018 with the goal of providing healthy, convenient food options to busy New Yorkers. The company started with a small fleet of vending machines in office buildings and quickly expanded to universities, gyms, and hospitals.

Challenges: Initially, Fresh Bites faced challenges in sourcing fresh ingredients and maintaining the quality of their food. They also had to invest in advanced technology to monitor the vending machines and ensure compliance with health regulations.

Solutions: Fresh Bites established partnerships with local farmers and suppliers to source high-quality ingredients. They invested in state-of-the-art vending machines with real-time monitoring and temperature control. The company also developed a strong brand identity and promoted their products through social media and local advertising.

Results: Within two years, Fresh Bites expanded to over 100 vending machines across New York City. Their focus on quality, convenience, and sustainability resonated with customers, leading to a loyal customer base and increased sales. Fresh Bites continues to grow and innovate, offering new menu items and expanding to new locations.

Conclusion

Fresh food vending is more than just a trend; it's a revolution in how we access healthy, convenient meals. As the demand for nutritious, on-the-go options continues to rise, fresh food vending machines are poised to become a staple in our daily lives. By addressing the challenges and implementing effective strategies, entrepreneurs can tap into this growing market and make a positive impact on public health.

The Fresh Frontier is here, and it's transforming the way we think about convenience and nutrition. Whether you're an entrepreneur looking to start a fresh food vending business or a consumer seeking healthier options, the delicious revolution of fresh food vending is something you won't want to miss.

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Establishing good sleep habits in children is essential for their overall health and well-being. As a pediatrician in Borivali West, Dr. Prashant Gandhi understands the importance of quality sleep for children's growth and development. In this article, we'll explore expert tips from Dr. Gandhi for promoting healthy sleep habits in children.

Set a Consistent Bedtime: Establishing a consistent bedtime routine helps regulate children's internal body clocks, making it easier for them to fall asleep and wake up at the same time each day. Aim for a bedtime that allows for adequate rest based on your child's age and individual needs.

Create a Relaxing Bedtime Routine: Encourage calming activities before bedtime, such as reading a book, taking a warm bath, or practicing gentle yoga or deep breathing exercises. Avoid stimulating activities like screen time or rough play, as these can interfere with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle.

Ensure a Comfortable Sleep Environment: Create a sleep-friendly environment by keeping the bedroom dark, quiet, and cool. Invest in a comfortable mattress and bedding to promote restful sleep. Consider using white noise machines or blackout curtains to block out external disturbances.

Limit Screen Time Before Bed: Exposure to screens, such as smartphones, tablets, or televisions, before bedtime can disrupt sleep patterns and delay the onset of sleep. Establish a screen-free zone in the bedroom and limit screen time at least an hour before bedtime to allow the brain to wind down.

Encourage Physical Activity During the Day: Regular physical activity during the day helps children expend energy and promotes better sleep at night. Encourage outdoor play, sports, or active games to keep children active and engaged during the day.

Monitor Caffeine Intake: Limit your child's consumption of caffeine-containing beverages, such as soda or energy drinks, especially in the afternoon and evening. Caffeine can interfere with sleep and contribute to restlessness and insomnia.

Be Mindful of Bedtime Fears: Address any fears or anxieties your child may have about bedtime by providing reassurance and support. Offer comfort objects, such as a favorite stuffed animal or blanket, and engage in calming bedtime rituals to help alleviate anxiety.

Seek Professional Guidance if Needed: If your child continues to struggle with sleep despite implementing these tips, consider consulting with a pediatrician or child specialist. Dr. Prashant Gandhi, a trusted pediatrician in Borivali West, can provide personalized guidance and support to address your child's sleep concerns.

Establishing good sleep habits is crucial for children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. By following these expert tips from Dr. Prashant Gandhi, you can help your child enjoy restful nights and wake up feeling refreshed and ready for the day ahead. For personalized guidance and support, consult with Dr. Gandhi, the best pediatrician in Borivali West, to ensure your child's optimal sleep health.

[foodreceipe]

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda Pop

Soda’s reputation has fallen a bit flat lately: The all-American beverage most recently made headlines due to an FDA investigation of a potential carcinogen, commonly called “caramel coloring,” used in many soft-drink recipes. This bit of drama follows other recent stories that paint an unflattering picture of the soda industry, including New York’s attempt to ban super-sized drinks, the eviction of soda machines from many public schools, and a spate of new soda-tax proposals. All these regulations are designed to mitigate the unhealthy impacts of Big Soda, such as increasing childhood obesity, in the same way restrictions were slapped on cigarettes in years past.

“The drink became symbolic of America, and even freedom in a way. It made Coca-Cola more than just another fizzy drink.”

Faced with all this bad press, it’s hard to believe that the “evil” soft drink actually began as a health product, touted for its many beneficial effects. In fact, soda got its start in Europe, where the healing powers of natural mineral waters have been prescribed for hundreds of years. Bathing or drinking the water from these natural spas was thought to cure a wide variety of illnesses. Tristan Donovan, the author of Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World, says that the ailments treated with bubbling spring waters constituted a “ludicrously big list,” everything from gallstones to scurvy. (In reality, the beverage did little more than settle an upset stomach, without any adverse side effects.)

Despite the broad appeal of mineral water, packaging and transporting this effervescent liquid proved difficult, so chemists set out to make their own. “It took until 1767 for the real breakthrough to happen when Joseph Priestley, the British chemist who was the first to identify oxygen, figured out a way to put carbon dioxide into water,” says Donovan. Priestley’s process used a fermenting yeast mash to infuse water with the gas, resulting in a weakly carbonated drink. Proponents of the bubbly beverage’s healthful properties were thrilled.

Top: A Coke advertisement from 1907. Above: Early soda machines required oversized cranks to manually carbonate water, like these devices from the 1870s.

In 1783, the Swiss scientist Johann Jacob Schweppe improved on Priestley’s process with a device for carbonating water using a hand-cranked compression pump, launching the now-famous Schweppes company. Yet it was still virtually impossible to get carbonated water to market without losing its fizz, as drinks in corked stoneware bottles tended to go flat quickly and glass bottles weren’t widely available. Charles Plinth solved part of the problem with his soda syphon in 1813, which could dispense bubbly water without compromising the remaining mixture’s carbonation, though syphons still had to be refilled at a facility that actually produced the carbonated liquid.

Finally, in 1832, the English-born American inventor John Matthews developed a lead-lined chamber wherein sulphuric acid and powdered marble (also known as calcium carbonate) were mixed together to generate carbon dioxide. The gas was then purified and manually mixed into cool water with steady agitation, creating carbonated water. Matthews’ design worked either as a bottling unit or a soda fountain, since it produced enough carbonated water to last customers all day. But America’s weak glass industry still wasn’t able to support large-scale bottling plants, so the simplest way to sell soda water was at public fountains.

Left, a Schweppes ad from 1937, more than 150 years after the mineral water company was founded. Right, early carbonated waters were sometimes sold in rounded “torpedo” bottles, forcing them to lie flat so the liquid contents would dampen the cork, preventing it from shrinking.

“If I were going to single out one person as creating the carbonated drink industry, I would give credit to Benjamin Silliman, even though he eventually failed financially,” says Anne Funderburg, the author of Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains.

An illustration of a French soda water apparatus, featuring soda syphons and carbonating machines below the counter, circa 1830s.

“Silliman was a chemistry professor at Yale College, and he wanted to supplement his small paycheck while also doing something altruistic for mankind. Silliman believed that carbonated waters could be used as medicine, so he set up a business in New Haven, Connecticut, selling bottled carbonated water.” Though Silliman had little success selling the drink at his local apothecary, he decided to expand his business, designing a larger-capacity carbonation apparatus and securing investments to open two pump rooms in New York City.

In 1809, Silliman started selling his soda water at the Tontine coffeehouse and the City Hotel, elegant establishments that catered to an elite clientele (the Tontine was in the same building as the New York Stock Exchange). In addition to their supposedly beneficial products, these early soda fountains were designed to create an uplifting environment, adorned with marble counters and ornate brass soda dispensers. However, Silliman continued to focus on the medical benefits of his soda water, while his competitors recognized that the social aspects of drinking were potentially more appealing.

In their heyday, soda fountains were elaborately designed places for rejuvenation. Left, the counter at the Clarkson & Mitchell Drugstore in Springfield, Illinois, circa 1905. Via the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Right, an 1894 ad for an ornate fountain produced by Charles Lippincott & Co.

“People who had better business sense than Silliman set up their pump rooms like a spa: You came to drink your carbonated water, but you hung around reading the free books and conversing with other intelligent people who were also there to drink carbonated water,” says Funderburg. “They understood that you could make a real business out of it, where Silliman treated soda more as a medicine.” Though the servers at Tontine recognized that customers preferred soda water as a mixer, it remained a slow seller, and eventually Silliman was forced out of the industry. Even as Silliman’s company failed, the soda trend was catching, and successful fountains soon popped up in other cities like Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Because carbonated water was still viewed as a health drink, the first soda shops were situated in drugstores and closely linked with their pharmacies. “Part of the reason they became so entwined is that the process of carbonating water and making syrups or flavorings was something pharmacists already had the skill set to do,” Donovan explains. “They were the obvious people to take this on, and they started adding in ingredients they thought were health-providing. Sarsaparilla was linked to curing syphilis. Phosphoric acid was seen as something that could help hypertension and other problems.” Long-standing favorites like ginger ale and root beer were also initially prized for their medicinal qualities.

According to Darcy O’Neil, author of Fix the Pumps, pharmacists initially used sweet-tasting soda flavors to mask the taste of bitter medicines like quinine and iron, as most medication was taken in liquid form during this era. Plus, many pharmaceutical tinctures and tonics were already mixed with alcohol, which made even the most pungent medicinal flavors enticing. “Many of the elixirs and tonics contained as much alcohol as a shot of whiskey,” writes O’Neil. “This was popular with both the imbiber and pharmacy. The imbiber could get an alcoholic drink at a fraction of the bar’s price because there were no taxes on alcohol-based ‘medicine.’”

Acid phosphates like Horsford’s, seen in these advertisements from the 1870s, gave many soda fountain drinks a distinctively tart flavor.

Besides booze, sodas of the 19th century also incorporated drugs with much stronger side effects, including ingredients now known as narcotics. Prior to the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906, there were few legal restrictions on what could be put into soda-fountain beverages. Many customers came to soda fountains early in the morning to get a refreshing and “healthy” beverage to start their day off right: Terms like “bracer” and “pick-me-up” referred to the physical and mental stimulation sodas could provide, whether from caffeine or other addictive substances.

Pharmacists were soon making soda mixtures with stronger drugs known as “nervines,” a category that included strychnine, cannabis, morphine, opium, heroin, and a new miracle compound called cocaine, which was first isolated in 1855. “Cocaine was a wonder drug at the time when it was first discovered,” Donovan explains. “It was seen as this marvelous medicine that could do you no harm. Ingredients like cocaine or kola nuts or phosphoric acid were all viewed as something that really gave you an edge.

“Cocaine was a wonder drug at the time when it was first discovered. It was seen as this marvelous medicine that could do you no harm.”

“Recipes I’ve seen suggest it was about 0.01 grams of cocaine used in fountain sodas. That’s about a tenth of a line of coke,” he says. “It’s hard to be sure, but I don’t think it would’ve given people a massive high. It would definitely be enough to have some kind of effect, probably stronger than coffee.” While the dosages were small, they were certainly habit-forming, and soda fountains stood to profit from such consistent customers.

Throughout the mid-19th century, soda fountains spread clear across the U.S., and a niche health drink became a beloved American refreshment, capable of competing with the best cocktails in the world. Soda throwers or soda jerks, as they were later called (after the jerking arm movement required to operate the taps), had to be just as skilled as bartenders at mixing drinks; in fact, many bartenders started working at soda fountains once the industry was booming.

“Around that time, it became obvious to the medical profession that there weren’t any health benefits to carbonated water on its own, so people started selling it as a treat,” says Funderburg. “It’s hard to put our heads around how much of a treat cold fizzy water was back then. People didn’t have mechanical refrigeration, so to have a cold drink was a big deal. They flavored them with chocolate or fruit syrups, and citrus fruits like lime and lemon became favorites.”

By the early 20th century, soda fountains were an integral part of neighborhood drugstores, such as this counter in the People’s Drug Store, in Washington, D.C. pharmacy, circa 1920. Via Shorpy.

Presumably, as soon as carbonated water was commercially available, people were adding their own flavorings to spice things up. “The earliest advertisement I’ve managed to find for something we would call soda was from 1807, and that was a sparkling lemonade being sold in York,” says Donovan. “It could have been a fairly new idea, but people had flavored still water for years beforehand.”

Lemon drinks made up the first of many flavor fads to hit the soda industry, likely because un-carbonated lemonade was a familiar refreshment. According to O’Neil, lemon syrups were already used as a base flavor for many medicines, so concocting a tasty drink with these was natural. Beyond lemon, all manner of citrus-flavored sodas were enjoyed in the mid-1800s, in part because their essential oils were easy to extract and preserve. Other fountain staples included orange, vanilla, cherry, and wintergreen, although shops were always testing new recipes looking for the latest hip drink. Most soda mixtures were made using a sugary simple syrup, but popular flavors were often far more tart than today’s sodas.

One of the most complete records of these innovative cocktails is DeForest Saxe’s 1894 book entitled Saxe’s New Guide, or, Hints to Soda Water Dispensers. In its pages, Saxe illuminates his own experience working a soda fountain, detailing tips for pouring sodas, keeping them cold, and making an extensive list of drink recipes. From a “Tulip Peach” to a “Swizzle Fizz,” or an “Opera Bouquet” to an “Almond Sponge,” Saxe covered the wildest new flavor sensations in addition to the classic egg creams and flavored phosphates. But despite their fantastic names, Saxe’s recipes notably avoid the medicinal ingredients many soda fountains relied upon to give their drinks a kick.

An illustration of proper mixing form as published in Saxe’s 1894 book.

By the turn of the 20th century, many Americans had begun to recognize the dangers of serving unregulated medications in such a casual manner. In 1902, the Los Angeles Times published an article titled “They Thirst for Cocaine: Soda Fountain Fiends Multiplying,” which focused on the questionable ingredients in popular drinks like Coca-Cola. However, Donovan says that judging from the small quantities of cocaine in actual recipes, it’s doubtful that there were many soda-addicted fiends.

In the 1890s, Coke was directly marketed as a medicinal drink.

In fact, Coke was developed while looking for an antidote to the common morphine addictions that followed the Civil War: Veteran and pharmacist John Stith Pemberton concocted the original Coca-Cola mixture while experimenting with opiate-free painkillers to soothe his own war wounds. The company’s first advertisement ran on the patent-medicine page of the Atlanta Journal in 1886, and made it clear that Coca-Cola was viewed as a health drink, “containing the properties of the wonderful Coca plant and the famous Cola nuts.”

Of course, these were also the properties of your basic uppers: Cocaine is a coca leaf extract, and the African kola nut is known for its high caffeine content. Once the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 required narcotics to be clearly labelled, the majority of Coca-Cola’s cocaine was removed, though it took until 1929 for the company to develop a method that could eliminate all traces of the drug.

However, at the turn of the 20th century, the harshest public criticism was reserved for a different devilish drink — alcohol. As temperance groups rallied against booze, they helped propel teetotaling customers into American soda fountains. In 1919, the year before Prohibition took effect, there were already 126,000 soda fountains in the United States, far exceeding the number of bars and nightclubs today. “Soda had always played up the temperance link,” says Donovan. “Even before Prohibition, sodas like Hires Root Beer were presented as non-alcoholic drinks and marketed that way. Lots of fizzy-drink companies encouraged the temperance movement, and they were generally quite pleased from a business perspective when Prohibition came in. Their sales rose. People couldn’t go to bars anymore so they turned to soda fountains instead.”

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Revolutionizing Retail: The Power of A and M Vending Machines

In today's fast-paced world, convenience is key. A and M vending machines have emerged as a solution to meet the evolving needs of consumers and businesses alike. These automated marvels offer quick access to snacks, beverages, and other products, revolutionizing the retail experience. Let's delve into the world of A and M vending and uncover its significance in modern society.

History of Vending

Vending machines trace their origins back to ancient Greece, where holy water was dispensed for a coin. Over the centuries, these machines evolved, with the first modern vending machine dispensing postcards in the early 1880s. Today, vending technology has undergone remarkable advancements, catering to a wide range of products and industries. The proliferation of vending machines has significantly influenced consumer behavior, providing convenient access to goods on-the-go.

Types of Vending Machines

Snack Vending Machines: These machines offer a wide array of snacks, ranging from chips and candies to healthy options like granola bars and fruit cups.

Beverage Vending Machines: Quench your thirst with a variety of beverages, including sodas, juices, water, and even specialty drinks like iced coffee and energy drinks.

Specialized Vending Machines: From fresh food vending machines at airports to prescription medication dispensers in pharmacies, specialized vending machines cater to diverse consumer needs.

Benefits of A and M Vending

The allure of A and M vending lies in its myriad benefits. For consumers, these machines provide unmatched convenience, allowing for quick and easy access to desired products. For businesses, vending machines represent a lucrative revenue stream with minimal overhead costs. Additionally, the scalability of vending operations makes them an attractive investment opportunity for entrepreneurs.

Challenges and Solutions

Despite their many advantages, vending machines are not without challenges. Maintenance and servicing can be cumbersome, requiring timely repairs to ensure uninterrupted operation. Security concerns, such as vandalism and theft, necessitate robust security measures and surveillance systems. However, advancements in technology have led to innovative solutions, including remote monitoring and predictive maintenance, to address these challenges effectively.

Technology in Vending

A and M vending machines have embraced cutting-edge technology to enhance the user experience. Cashless payment systems, such as mobile wallets and contactless cards, have streamlined transactions, eliminating the need for cash. Furthermore, IoT integration has enabled smart vending solutions, allowing operators to monitor inventory levels in real-time and optimize machine performance. Data analytics play a crucial role in predicting consumer preferences and optimizing product offerings.

Future Trends

The future of A and M vending is brimming with possibilities. Personalization will take center stage, with vending machines offering tailored recommendations based on individual preferences and purchasing history. Integration with artificial intelligence will enable predictive inventory management, ensuring optimal stock levels and minimizing waste. Moreover, vending machines will expand into new markets and industries, catering to a diverse range of consumer needs.

Regulations and Compliance

As with any industry, A and M vending is subject to regulations and compliance standards. Food safety regulations govern the handling and storage of perishable goods, ensuring consumer safety. ADA compliance ensures accessibility for individuals with disabilities, with requirements for machine placement and operation. Licensing and permits are also required for vending machine businesses, varying depending on location and jurisdiction.

Impact on Retail Industry

The rise of A and M vending has implications for the retail industry as a whole. Traditional retail stores face increased competition from vending machines, which offer convenience and accessibility to consumers. However, there are opportunities for collaboration between vending machine operators and retailers, leveraging each other's strengths to enhance the overall shopping experience. Furthermore, vending machines are disrupting traditional supply chain models, offering a direct-to-consumer distribution channel for manufacturers.

Case Studies

Examining successful implementations of A and M vending provides valuable insights into best practices and lessons learned. From innovative design concepts to strategic placement strategies, case studies highlight the versatility and effectiveness of vending machine solutions. By studying both successes and failures, businesses can glean valuable lessons to inform their own vending strategies.

A and M Vending in Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to the retail industry, including A and M vending. However, vending machines quickly adapted to the new normal, offering contactless transactions and adhering to social distancing measures. As the world emerges from the pandemic, A and M vending will continue to play a vital role in providing safe and convenient access to essential goods.

Conclusion

In conclusion, A and M vending machines are revolutionizing the retail landscape, offering unparalleled convenience, flexibility, and innovation. From snacks and beverages to everyday essentials, these automated wonders are reshaping the way consumers shop. As technology continues to evolve and consumer preferences shift, the future of A and M vending holds limitless possibilities.

FAQs

Are A and M vending machines environmentally friendly?

Yes, many A and M vending machines are equipped with energy-efficient features and use recyclable materials to minimize their environmental impact.

How do vending machines detect counterfeit currency?

Vending machines employ a variety of security features, including optical scanners and magnetic sensors, to detect counterfeit currency.

Can A and M vending machines be customized to specific product requirements?

Yes, A and M vending machines can be tailored to accommodate a wide range of products, from snacks and beverages to electronics and personal care items.

What measures are in place to ensure food safety in vending machines?

Vending machine operators adhere to strict food safety regulations, including regular cleaning and maintenance procedures, to ensure the integrity of perishable goods.

Are there any age restrictions for purchasing items from vending machines?

Age restrictions may apply to certain products, such as alcoholic beverages or tobacco products, depending on local laws and regulations.

How do vending machine operators address inventory management challenges?

Vending machine operators utilize data analytics and predictive algorithms to optimize inventory levels and minimize stockouts, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for consumers.