Tea with a metro card

^That's me! A Sofia Metro card standing on two wire legs (inspired by Eclectech's doodles), waving at/inviting the audience for a hug, with a beaming stickered smile.
That's me!
A Sofia Metro card standing on two wire legs (inspired by Eclectech's doodles), waving at/inviting the audience for a hug, with a beaming stickered smile.

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Helloooo! It's me! Darla! So excited to meet youu!

Excited to meet you too!

Yess! Enchantée! yay! 🎉

Please, please, come in! Make yourselves at home! There's place for everybody! Yess.. want to sit over here on the couch?

Couch Uh.. chair?

If couch: It's so nice and soft, that couch, you know? I got it at a thrift market, oh what a find it was!

If chair: No? Well, chair is fine too! Per-fect. Perfect!

Oh, I'm so excited to have people over! It makes me all so giddy and happy and-and- airy and free! It just makes me so HAPPY!

I hope it makes you feel just as welcome yourself! ✨

Want anything?

Tea? Coffee? Nothing? Cookie? Cookie crumb?

If nothing: Nope! Nothing's not allowed! Try again! 😇

Editor's note: It just leads to boring dialogue; the cookie crumb is more fun, really 😂

If tea: Oh tea, yes! I love tea! It goes very well with the cookies; in fact, I'll leave the tray of them right here next to you, with the herbal tea! So you can, you know, reach for a cookie any time you want! Yess!

If coffee: Coffee—yes! You know, I just got this coffee machine from a friend last week, and it's been working a charm! Here, let me pour you a cup; and I'll even add in some milk! I'm not a barista, but you—you see, it has a lil' heart in it now! See?
Careful, might be a bit hot!

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What brings you around? Want to tell me a bit about yourself?

Well, you see, I'm a blog reader who ... ... Mm.. you go first

If tell about self: That's quite interesting.. so you are like, a person who hangs around people's personal websites? For fun?

I've always loved meeting people in-person; never thought I could meet them online. But that sounds so interesting! How did you say the website is called? —Oh, you just browse many smalll sites? How does that..——the IndieWeb you say? 🤔 I'll have to look that up some day!

If not telling about self: No? Oh, that's alright, you don't have to be so shy; I can start too!

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So, about me... as you can probably tell from the way I dress, I work as a metro card! At the Sofia metro! Oh, what a live and busy place! I love to mingle with the crowds at the stations, ride along the escalators, stop by the musicians at Serdika station, dance to the sounds of violins and gadulkas... oh I LOVE it there! That's why I picked the job, really!

But then I started, and let me tell you, that job is such a BORE, dude! I could have been anything else! A corporate debit card, spilling wine at cocktail parties; a cleaning staff access card, slipping from floor to floor unnoticed; even a discount loyalty card, inconspicuously noting down customer habits, but no, I picked to be a metro card and got assigned to be a personalized metro card for that absolute bore of a person!

—No, not like you of course. You are nice, and snazzy, and want to chat with me—the lowly metro card—what's not to like. But that guy, let me tell you! He would use the metro three times a day. On one day! Of the whole WEEK!
The rest of the week, he'd stay at home, listen to the most absolutely screeching rock music, and tap-tap away on a super loud keyboard.

What a bore! I—I wanted to see people, talk with everyone, be at the heart of a crowd; but no, I just had to stay on that desk, wait for that guy to remember he had to rush somewhere, flee by every passerby, listen to the air whistle by, and all that—only to get somewhere mildly less boring than "home".

No, no, and no! So, you know what I did?—I just had it, and I left!

——But wait, do you want a cookie? Pleasee, I made those myself! You can't say no to me nowww! 😊

Uh, cookie please