Laura's Misfortunes

7-Lake Barbecue!

Laura and her friends went to the lake on a nice sunny Saturday afternoon. Trey decided to drive since they all knew about Laura's awful driving and didn't want to die. They had brought kabobs, corn, chicken, burgers, ribs, hotdogs, and potato salad for a nice meal later on. Laura smirked evilly looking at the food.

They set up the grill somewhere near the edge of the lake before taking the contents out of the bags and coolers, placing them gently on the table and grill.
"Lets cook the burgers and hotdogs first. Laura, get the buns ready and Marcus...shake the ketchup" John instructed opening the bags of burgers and hotdogs.

"Here's the cheese. Here, I brought you the ketchup. Take the bun; I already put mayo on it" Crystal gave John the said things as he placed them in the paper plates. Next, they began to cook everything else.

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"John, I sold a burger to this nice lady and her son!" "Those aren't supposed to be for sale! We aren't selling them, that's OUR food-" "hold up, not so fast! *wispers* how much money did you get for it?" Marcus interupted the conversation. "Um... *starts counting money* $10" "for two?" "Yes" "...you did a mighty good thing. Everyone! I have a new anouncement- we are now beginning to sell the food!" Many gasp and 'oh's were heard around the set up.

They started to establish jobs: "Laura, you should take orders; here's a notebook. Trey, work with me in the kitchen tent. Marcus and Crystal, you can both be waitresses and waiters. Oh yeah, Marcus, can you make a sign that sells the burgers for 8 dollars?"
John said as they all nodded eagerly going to do exactly that.

Trey and John stood in front of the grill getting ready to start barbecuing.
"Trey, did you know that I'm vegetarian?" "Excuse me?" "I'm vegetarian. Processed food is bad for the environment but it taste good so-" "wait! You're vegetarian!? Then what're you doing here!? In a barbecue...where everything is meat!" "...because it taste good anyway?"

John and Trey continued to barbecue the chicken weirdly.
"Guuuuyyssss! We ran out of buns and we're almost out of ketchup and mayonaise! Somebody go get some more!" Trey screamed before John volunteered taking his gloves and apron off.

He was walking towards the parking lot before a lady stopped him. "Young man, are the burgers there good?" "Yes! Our burgers are great!" "Oh, thank you! But may I ask how much they are?" "$8 per burger!" the lady thanked him happily walking in the direction of the line of work.

'$530 for this bottle of ketchup!? That's crazy!' John thought leaving the store deciding to go back to the lake and stop the company.

~~~\\\\With Laura////~~~
She was serving the last burger before John was to come back with more.
"Ocean! I didn't know you were also coming to the lake today!" "Huh? *gasp* Laura, you're here too!? What are you doing here?" "Selling barbecue" "for how much?" "$800 per burger!" At that moment all of the customers almost spit their food out and left.

"Laura...that's not possible..." "yes it is! John said we were selling it for that much!" Ocean looked at her before leaving.
"Laura did you just tell her that we're selling the burgers for 800 dollars!?" "Yeah, what's wrong, Marcus?" "Where did you get that information from!?" "That sign-" "guys! We're ending the buisness! The stuff was too expensiv-where's all our customers?"

"John, how much was the ketchup?" "$530" "...are you sure?" "Yeah" "John we're selling the burgers for 800 dollars right?" "Who told you that" "the sign says that" John looked at the sign and gasped. "Marcus, I said the burgers were $8!" "That is 8 dollar-wait...did you drop the decimal and add the two 00's on the end?"

"...what's a decimal?"

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...N-Non of this is logical...like...it just doesn't make sense..I-🤭😶