h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Zack: We have everything the average hitchhiker, as well as things for the unusual hitchhiker. And all at a prices a hitchhiker can afford!

I'm looking for the mental equivalent of seven-league boots, please, so that I can get away from this desk which is piled high with exam papers I'm supposed to be grading which are written on buff coloured paper, which is my least favourite paper colour. I have various not very useful earth currencies in my travel purse (Bulgarian lev, for example) but rather few Alterian dollars as I blew them all on an out of this world millennium party.

*A very strange little man come out from the back. He looks up with a crooked smile.*

GrassScab the Mutant:Boots? I'm sure we have something like what you are looking for. Uh, what are seven-league boots, exactly?

Ooh - is this office supplies?
Something I could really do is an inverter pen...its sort of like a highlighter pen, only it turns white text on a black background into black on white and v.v.
I have several types of Irish coinage, a polish Zloty and a former employees payslip...oh wait now, this isn't my desk

GrassScab the Mutant: No we have things for hitchhikers. Things for travel mostly.

do you have any black knee-high leather combat boots?

GrassScab: er...sure. What size please?

umm... ladies 8 1/2 please...

GrassScab: Hmm, okay. one moment...

GrassScab: Sorry for the wait. Will these do? They are very sturdy and stilish, if I do say so myself.

[sea] they're perfect. how much do i owe you?

GrassScab: Well let's see, these cost 100 er... of whatever you have.

lol... okay... here are 100 handsome single men's phone numbers... a currency where i come from. very valuable too.
*sea sits down and takes off her battered old boots, sets them on fire, then burns them to ashes which are swept away by a cleaning bot. she puts on the new boots*
a perfect fit! thank you, grassscab!!!

GrassScab the Mutant: *looks at the list of phone numbers* Hmm, this won't do me much good I'm afraid. Maybe I can trade them with someone else.

*sea shrugs*

[sea] perhaps... i know my sister evillene would take them. but good luck finding something she has that you want... unless you want to hire her. but i digress. thanks very much. i'll be back if i need anything else...

*sea exits the store*

hello !

this place isn't [articularly busy at the moment is it.