Category: Chapter day 2 conversations

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• Dinner_Saturday Saturday dinner at the dining table: Mom's chicken casserole. Dad asks how the day went, and Mom reminds the kid that school starts at the end of August.
• Dinner_Saturday_Fence The same dinner when the kid cleared Frank's fence: Dad noticed, and says so.
• EmporWAY_Apology The second call, after the fake voice. The kid apologizes and tells the truth; Rick softens, sets up a provisional account under the kid's real name on the same terms, and warns that the fake voice again will get the number blocked: the supply line is open after a humbling lesson.
• EmporWAY_FakeVoice The call without Frank's advice. The kid puts on a deep grown-up voice as "Director Carter of Carter Commercial Enterprises"; the voice cracks twice, and Rick tells the kid to get off their dad's phone and hangs up. A fast busy signal, and a new goal: call EmporWAY again and apologize.
• EmporWAY_FirstCall The honest call, made with Frank's advice. On the living room phone the kid calls EmporWAY and gets Rick in the middle of a busy warehouse. The kid says who they are and that they are sixteen; Rick takes it for a prank, then hears the plan out: a store from home, items from the online catalogue shipped one by one to the customers, every order paid for up front. He opens an account under the name Carter, in Maruf: the supply line is open on the first try.
• Frank_Fence When the kid first walks out front, Frank calls from his rocking chair; Tank lies on the porch rug. Briars and wild blackberry brush cover the fence posts between the two yards, Frank's bad knee is acting up, and Tank can't see the birds over the weeds. The player takes the job or turns it down.
• Frank_FenceDone Back at the porch, sweaty and dirty after two hours of clearing brush. Frank pays five dollars, and when the kid admits being nervous about calling a wholesale distributor, he gives his advice: be honest, straight numbers and cash up front. The game remembers the advice, and it decides how the call goes.
• Frank_FenceNo The kid turns the job down and goes inside to the laptop.
• Frank_FenceWaiting What Frank says while the brush is still waiting to be cleared.
• Frank_FenceYes The kid takes the job: Frank sends them to his shed for the shears.
• Frank_Saturday What Frank says from his porch on Saturday when there is no fence job to talk about.
• Frank_SaturdayAdvice What Frank says after giving his advice, before the call.
• Peggy_Saturday The free afternoon: the kid walks downtown to Palmer's Market for a cold soda and a word with Peggy.
• Store_PaidSoda Peggy at the counter of Palmer's Market, once the kid has paid for the soda.