apparently someone left their iphone in our store. the phone was found by a woman, henceforth known as “Terrible Lady,” when Phone Owner set off the “find my iphone” alarm. the alarm is accompanied by a “please contact this # if found” message. Terrible Lady utilizes this number to text Phone Owner, demanding $100 in return for the phone. Phone Owner says they can’t afford it, there’s some back and forth, etc. etc., and eventually Phone Owner threatens to call the cops.
Terrible Lady brings the phone (which is still making the obnoxious “find my iphone” noise, and continues to do for the duration of the encounter) to my register, complaining about the audacity of Phone Owner, as if refusing to pay the $100 is an egregious personal insult. i “mhm” a lot, silently judging her, but relieved she has sensibly decided to release the phone into the store’s custody so we can return it to Phone Owner without further drama.
LMAO WRONG
fifteen minutes later, after she has checked out, she comes by my register just long enough to say “make sure she pays the $100, i’ll call to see when i need to come pick it up!” and is out the door before i can even process the fact that this women genuinely thinks that the burlington fucking coat factory is going to be the middleman for her definitely unethical and most likely illegal lost iphone extortion scheme. (side note: i looked this up once i got home from work, and it turns out that, yeah, it’s totally illegal in our state)
sure enough, an hour later, Terrible Lady calls: “hi, is this cashier #5? [that’s not my name but thanks] has she brought the $100 yet??”
there are like 2 cashiers on duty and 20 people in line. i beg my manager to take the call, which: smart move. because my manager ends up on the phone with Terrible Lady for 20 minutes, telling her that we will, under no circumstances, require Phone Owner to pay $100 before we give them the phone. eventually, Terrible Lady realizes we mean business, and SHE threatens to call the cops on US because we took the phone from her “under false pretenses”
isn’t it a little odd that this one random unmarked and likely unimportant marmorite is at the center of this shot? i wonder why they’re looking so intently at their blade while everyone else is doing other stuff
hmmm i wonder where keith went…
just adding to my own post here:
it’s also possible that this isn’t keith. that is definitely entirely possible. but regardless of whether or not this specific marmorite is keith or not, keith taking time to be with the blades makes a lot of sense.
think about it- we can guess from hints from writers and from the s4 trailer itself that keith leaves voltron, at least for a little while.
here’s the thing- keith doesn’t really have anywhere else to go, does he? team voltron is like his family, or at least the closest thing he’s ever had to one. so, if he had to leave, wouldn’t it make sense for him to go to the only other place that holds any connection to his blood family? keith doesn’t strike me as somebody to give up on anything- so if he couldn’t continue fighting with voltron, i wouldn’t be surprised if he found a different way to fight.
we were told by the writers back before s3 was split into two seasons that keith’s part in this season would be about him “unlocking his powers”. i think that could potentially come into play if keith were to join the blade of marmora, whether it ends up being temporary or not
TLDR: yeah, maybe this isn’t keith. but i think it’s entirely possible that keith could still be heading to the blade after leaving voltron, because the blade is the closest thing to his family that he’ll have left.
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Do you ever just start remembering how Keith, during ones of the hardest trials and bone dead exhausted and wanting comfort, wasn't desperate to his mother or father, despite the fact that the whole reason he was there was to find answers about them and himself, but that he was desperate to see Shiro? And then you start hurting and you're down for the count for the rest of the day? They love each other so much and I can't handle it.
ok thanks for breaking me. honestly i was thinking about this yesterday and crashing people’s dms about it, because i’m pretty sure the blade of marmora was shiro’s trial as much as it was keith’s, if not more.
half of this episode is from shiro’s perspective, and every scene has
some variation of this exchange: shiro implying that keith will
never give up the knife, and kolivan assuring him that if that’s the
case, keith will die.
the
one being tested here–either literally or from a narrative perspective–is shiro:
at
the start of the episode, shiro is in a really bad place with keith. he tells
keith he needs to get himself together if he’s going to lead the team
one day, implying his own loss–which he knows will hurt keith, and then he doesn’t have keith’s back in a dangerous situation.
like just look at how this scene is framed:
can we like, not rag on the new fans coming to hs? who cares if they’re cringey, you were too once
and quite frankly everyone who’s been wailing about it is way more exhausting than the people who found a thing they liked and tried to participate in the fandom.
let’s not start the hipster “i liked it before it was cool so i’m better” shit, i’ve been here since 2012 and none of us are cool, none of us are free from sin, and new fans are what keeps the fandom alive
