good men keep neat appearances

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When; Tonight! (10/23)

Rating; PG, PG-13 for language possibly

Characters; Lin (pastdedication) & Gren (notapreacher)

Summary; Lin needs to buy shampoo. He runs into someone who knows a lot about haircare!

Log; How were there people in the world who actually enjoyed shopping? To Lin, the aisles of the drug store were like suicide central. On the radio, some man was howling about a girl he knew in college, or so Lin assumed.

I won't be held responsible, 'cause she was touching her face...

That was some heavy listening to buy shampoo to. Lin wasn't sure that he would actually classify any sort of music as suitable to shop at a drugstore by, but this seemed particularly out of place and grim.

And really? Deciding between 'moisturizing and conditioning' and 'strengthening and conditioning' and trying to decide whether his hair was oily, dry or normal was bad enough. He didn't need some whiner with a guitar adding to his malaise. What was the scientific criteria of determining this, he wondered. And would he rather smell like a fruit basket, a flower or a barber shop?

So there Lin stood, a bottle of shampoo in either hand. He had probably been standing there spacing out for a good minute or two. He had a basket on one arm. There was a can of shaving cream, some new razors, and a bottle of tea already in. Also, three bottles of hair gel.

In a hair gel, at least, he was clear on what he wanted.