Violet: As your business manager, I have to object to your advertising a competitor's business, but as a citizen of Barbieville, I understand. Strange times we're living in.
Midna: I figure the Changs need the little bit of profit still coming in more than I do. I'm more upset about doing this to my employees than I am about any hit my pocketbook's gonna take.
Violet: Are the Changs doing all right? Aside from the money, there's so many people blaming this on Asians and Chinese in particular.
Midna: Well, I guess any racists in Barbieville get to cook for themselves or starve. I vote for starve.
Violet (laughs): You're an evil woman, Midna Sunburst.
After finally getting into and registering at the Unemployment website, Pern browses free on-line courses. Knowledge has become Pern's new drug of choice, a vast improvement over her last one!
Nova: Mariko? Why are you here?
Mariko: Sunburst is closed for the duration. I was almost to work when Midna called, so I just turned around and followed Jeremiah home.
Nova: We'll muddle through somehow. We always do.
Jeremiah: Alex, one of us needs to use your computer while the other uses the family room one. We hear it's a nightmare to get into Unemployment's website. You got anything on it you don't want us seeing?
Alex: Not that I can think of. Why not have Mariko use mine, just in case?
Jeremiah: Good plan. She's not your dad.
Nova: Hurry back. We're doing cornrows. Lottie's upstairs admiring hers. We'll do yours, too.
Frodo: I guess your mom told you we're out of work for a while?
Four: Yeah. I was just getting ready to whip Finnick on COD. You in?
Frodo: Sure. Let me pry my little brother off of Youtube.
Zenobia: Welcome to Openly Biased. My roomie and I are both out of work due to COVID-19, so my content will be a little different for a while. We'll talk about current events, of course, but my only guest will probably be Miss Tris here, and we'll share what we're up to!
Tris: Tomorrow's topic will be "alternatives to pitching your device out the window while trying to apply for Unemployment".
Whitney (sobbing): What am I gonna do, Mom?
Kyra: Honey, it's not that bad. You aren't paying rent or anything.
Whitney: Dad just moved into town and this was my chance to show him. I'm carrying good grades, working a job, and taking care of Wilma. Everything he's been saying about me is wrong. Now I'm unemployed and not going to school.
Kyra: You were laid off because of something you have no power over. You are still doing your schoolwork. And you don't have anything to prove to Meanie Grandpa, Whitney. He wrote you off and that's his loss.
Whitney (still crying, but not as hard): It still hurts so bad, though.
Kyra: I know, sweetheart, I know. He wrote me off, too.
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