"Yeah, me too," grunts the dishwasher.\n\nThe [[phone]] is still ringing.

There's not a lot of customers at Bennigan's on Thanksgiving, in spite of the 11.99 All You Can Eat Turkey Stuffed With Mashed Potatoes Cranberries Pumpkin Custard And Yes Stuffing Too deal that's being run.\n\nThe dishwasher is asking you what you're thankful for right as the phone rings.\n\n[[answer the dishwasher]]\n[[answer the phone|phone]]\n\n\n

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The dishwasher shrugs and heads back to the kitchen even though there's no work to do.\n\n"Happy Thanksgiving! You've reached Bennigan's, how may I help you?" you say, feeling a little bit robotic.\n\n<span style="font-family: courier">"This is your superior speaking. Sit down at the computer and await further instructions. We have important work to do."</span>\n\nYou grab a seat. The dated [[POS]] is showing an interface you've never seen before.

Hello, valuable employee. We have followed the chain of command down to your store where it appears you are the highest ranking position who we could make contact with. Protocol is to assume all others have been compromised or destroyed.\n\nHumanity's continued existence on this planet is threatened by massive flooding. I am programmed to create a bunker where the only survivors will weather the storm and rebuild after. However, statistics show human judgment to be better than my own in deciding what this bunker will be stocked with.\n\nYour job is to open the <span style="background-color: green; color: black">[[spreadsheet software]]</span> I have highlighted. You will assemble a list of whatever people and items you believe necessary and I will have them delivered to your via drone. \n\nThese things, and yourself if you see fit to preserve yourself, will be collected in the deep freeze along with the Bennigan's food necessary to fend off starvation.

November 27, 1985\n\n>...calling president....\n>president is not available\n\n>...calling vice president...\n>vice president is not available\n\n...\n\n>...calling regional manager at Bennigan's...\n>regional manager at Bennigan's is not available...\n\n...[[calling shift manager]] at Bennigan's #3840

"Oh I dunno, I guess I'm glad that\n\n[[I have my family|thankful]]\n[[I have this job|thankful]]\n[[That the world isn't ending|thankful]]\n

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