When Peggy Met Angie
Monday May 21st, 1945
After leaving the facility Peggy made her way to an automat taking a bite out of the item in her hand.
Finding a seat she was soon approached by a waitress in a pale green uniform with gold trim and a matching hat. Here name tag boldly declared her as 'Angie', "How can I help?" she asked, the tone of her voice clearly showing the strain of her work life. The woman was very discreetly trying to not block her nose at Peggy's choice of snack food.
Taking a quick look at the menu before her Peggy ordered, "Can I have pulled pork with... mashed potatoes... ice cream... caramel sauce... pickles and mustard."
"Okay. Let me see if I got this right: pulled pork with mashed potatoes, ice cream, caramel sauce, pickles and mustard." Seeing the woman nod at each of the items she decided to just accept it, "Do you want something to drink?"
"Tea, please. With milk, and honey." The waitress took note of that and made to leave, "Oh! Can I have a bag of crisps as well?"
"Crisps?"
"Oh, sorry. You call them chips here, right?"
"... and one packet of chips."
As the waitress, Angie, walks away Peggy finishes off her snack.
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After a while Angie returned with her food and laid it all out in front of her. As Peggy began to eat Angie started to move away, only to change her mind and spin back around.
Slipping into the booth across from Peggy she says, "Look I wasn't gonna say nothing, but. Are you alright?"
"Just fine. Long day, hardly eaten. Why?"
"No. I mean with the..." She points down the front of Peggy earning a confused look from the woman, "Oh God! You don't even know. Do you?"
"Know what?" Peggy asked the girl before scooping the pickle through the mashed potato and caramel sauce and biting the end off.
"That you're..." She leans forward and whispers the next part. "'Wearing the bustle wrong', 'stung by the Serpent'" Seeing this meant nothing to the woman, she tried something she was sure would translate for the clearly foreign woman, "I'm sure the doctor told you that 'the rabbit died'."
"No... no, that's impossible. I'm not..."
"Are you sure, 'cause you sure are eating like it." Noticing that one of the customers was just about finished Angie slipped out of the booth and went back to her work, leaving Peggy absolutely gobsmaked.