Believable Fiction Workshop 1
They leave their apartment and as soon as they get to to the sidewalk they see how their usual Saturday trip to the grocery store is going to be. Still the ice has encrusted the land making it difficult if not dangerous to walk across. She starts to complain but then just looks down and focuses on her steps. On especially rough places or curbs he will take her hand and guide her even if she really doesn't need help. They get to the streets. Already they step over soda and liquor bottles and miscellaneous papers as if it is nothing. The sidewalk is clearer of ice than the apartment complex. Cars rush by as he holds her hand and tells her to hurry as they cross the street. They walk until they get where the bus. The bus stop is dirty, littered with the waste of human society that no one wants to clean up, liquor bottles, food containers, graffiti, old newspapers crumbled up. Sometimes it smells like garbage sometimes it doesn't. A bus stops but it is the wrong bus. The engine grinds loudly and leaves a huge cloud of exhaust. Their bus finally comes and he pays for both of them allowing her to sit down first. He comes to sits next to her with two all day passes. They talk about what they will buy as this is important because funds are very limited. They assume their their is an agreement on what they will buy. The light over the front of the bus writes out what area is the next stopas an accompanying voice speaks it as well. You either pull a yellow cord or push a strip on the wall to stop the next one and it makes a 'ding' noise. They enter the grocery store too chilled and full of people. As they shop in the store by the nature of their own eccentric personalities if not by their loud voices they draw slight attention to themselves. They bought enough food for now and that is all that matters now.