003 | Meyer Lansky | Video

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[To say that the video function on the communicators makes Meyer uncomfortable is an understatement, but he recognizes that there are times that they prove useful, so he's grudgingly using it today. When the video comes on, he's smiling and wearing the suit he'd been wearing when he arrived; in his opinion, that's the only outfit appropriate for doing business.]

I don't think I need to go on at length about the fact that we're all stuck here. We all know that. It's a place of many... uncertainties. I also don't need to say that given the uncertainties, there are times we might forget to do things to enjoy ourselves.

[He leans forward a little, his smile growing wider.]

That's why my partner and I have decided to start a card game. It's nothing serious, nothing formal, just a place where people can play a couple rounds of poker, have a couple drinks, talk with each other, maybe be entertained for awhile.

You're all invited to opening night, no matter what level of skills you may possess at playing cards. The way we see it, since money's no use here, people can bring along items they might want to gamble with -- cigarettes, food, coffee, that kind of thing.

This is an unfortunate place to be stuck, but it doesn't always have to be an unpleasant one. If you're interested or have questions, let me know. I'm always happy to be of service.

[And, with that, he cuts the video, hoping to at least have piqued some interest.]

Comments

[recognize_an_opportunity]

You can sew? That's a service I'd be interested in, actually. I think that'd be just fine.

[thelittlestbub]

I can't like, make clothes from scratch, yet, but I can alter clothes a bit, and fix some minor repairs, yeah. Why?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Nothing around here fits me right, and I'm no good at alterations.

[thelittlestbub]

Wrong how? Too big, too little? I'm better with the 'too big' aspect. I've fixed Logan's shirts before.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

The problem is mostly pants -- they fit in the waist, but the cuffs drag on the floor.

[Yeah, he's short.]

[thelittlestbub]

Dude, that's an easy fix. Like really easy. I can do that no problem.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

That'd be great. I've been rolling the cuffs up and wearing them that way, but my partner says it makes me look like an idiot.

[Business partners like Charlie aren't always the most tactful about poor fashion choices.]

[thelittlestbub]

Unless you're wearing boyfriend jeans it does make you look like an idiot.

[Who needs tact?]

[recognize_an_opportunity]

What're boyfriend jeans?

[This is someone from 1923 who never wears jeans unless he absolutely has to -- like being stuck here. He has no idea of any of this fashion lingo.]

[thelittlestbub]

Boyfriend jeans? They're jeans that look like you borrowed them from a guy. They're loose and usually rolled up.

Don't worry. I can hem your pants.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

So they're meant to be a women's fashion, I guess?

[Great. Now his cuffed jeans are both stupid looking and possibly girly.]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

[thelittlestbub]

Well, yeah, but guys can wear it. Just own that you're wearing boyfriend jeans. Nobody cares.

If you want, I'm not doing anything. Come on over to house 14.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I'd care about looking ridiculous.

[A pause.]

Okay. Sure. I'll be right over.

[thelittlestbub]

Door's open. Mind the dogs.

[Because she's not sure how direwolves react to strangers in the house.]

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

[Indeed, when he shows up, he does so very cautiously, peering around the door first before entering.]

Hello?

[thelittlestbub]

Kitchen!

[Jubilee happily calls back. The rooms are spotless. While Logan might not mind, Jubilee does and she's taken it upon herself to scour everything now and again. Plus, it keeps her busy.

There's also the beginnings of a pencil sketch on the kitchen wall where she's scraped the wall smooth - a long and painstaking process when she can't run to the hardware store.]

Out!

[That's the third time she's tripped over the dogs. Both look downcast and disappointed.]

Don't even. Out! I have company. Go find dinner. Go on.

[She nudges both of them with a knee and puts a small kit on the table.]

Right! Hemming. Shall we?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[He notices the spotlessness of the rooms and admires it, although he doesn't say anything out loud. As he walks into the kitchen, he steers well clear of the dogs.]

Sure. Like I said, I appreciate this.

[The jeans that he'd managed to find are draped over one arm, and he's wearing his suit, including his hat. He's far more used to being dressed up than being casual.]

[thelittlestbub]

[She nods.]

Pop into one of the bedrooms and change into them and we'll get about tacking them up and stuff.

[She shoos him away, and climbs on a chair to find the sewing kit on top of the fridge. She's short. she's okay with it.]

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[He does, and comes back out several minutes later, looking at the dragging hems of his jeans in dismay. At 5'3", he's not tiny, but he's shorter than average.]

The ones that were the right length were too tight, so I made do with these ones.

[thelittlestbub]

[She's only 5'1. She understands this pain.]

Up on the chair.

[Once he's there, she drops to her knees and sticks a few pins in her mouth. Hemming jeans isn't nearly as easy as other pants, but Jubilee knows what she's doing. It only takes a few quick minutes for her to pin them up.]

Alrighty. Take 'em off, and I'll get them hemmed. And no, no skinny jeans for you, dude. Trust me.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I don't know if I've ever seen skinny jeans, but I'm not sure I like the sound of them.

[Probably best to be avoided, then. He doesn't even like regular jeans. He heads back into one of the bedrooms to change into his suit pants again, marveling at just how nice something that's actually been tailored for him fits. When he comes back out, he hands her the jeans.]

Bad food and bad clothes. They're really testing us here.

[thelittlestbub]

[Short guys in skinny jeans look weird to her. About the only one she can see in them is Remy. And Remy rocks whatever look he's wearing.]

Eh, the clothes aren't too bad. The food needs a McD's and possibly a pizza joint.

[She folds a leg underneath her and begins working on the hem.]

And bagels. Man. A kosher deli would totally hit the spot right about now.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[He nods.]

What I wouldn't give for a good bagel. Or a kosher deli in general, yeah.

[Or pizza. He's not sure what a McD's is, but he assumes it's something that doesn't exist in his time.]

[thelittlestbub]

There's this one deli that sells this Reuben that makes Carnegie's seem like a hack. Bobby took me there once. I nearly cried in joy. The sandwich was huge. Carnegie still has the best cheesecake, but this little deli outstripped them when it came to the sandwich.

[Her hands are quickly pushing the thread in and out of the material in her lap.]

And there was this one hole in the wall pizza joint that unless you knew it was there, you'd never find it. Stone fired pizza. I miss New York.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

C'mon, you can't just start talking about food like that and make a guy hungry when there's no way of getting it. I miss New York like hell, too.