This story is a sequel to Car Wash
Coconut Cream started working a new job in Philadelphia at Gustave Le Grande's Filly Cheesesteaks, and I just 'volunteered' to drive Toola Roola to Philadelphia to see her best friend. Me and my big mouth.
At least I like cheesesteaks...
A sequel to Car Wash, though this is a stand-alone and it's not necessary to read that story first to enjoy this one.
Written for Admiral Biscuit's challenge/request for more slice of life fics featuring ponies working on Earth:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/869870/story-notes-labor-day-plus-a-challenge-to-readers
Additional tags: Gustave Le Grande, Tag-A-Long, Rainbow Harmony, Spur, & Tornado Bolt
Pre-read/edited by Admiral Biscuit
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Cee-Cee is adorable!
Run out of town? Seems rather harsh for Ponyville. Or Equestria in general.
This was nice.
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The protagonist isn't necessarily the most reliable narrator in that scene. He's going by secondhand information, and making assumptions based on human behavior. Unless Minty actually speaks up, he'll never know what really happened.
Inspired by the scene in A Very Minty Christmas where Pinkie Pie really does suggest Minty 'leave town' (Minty's immediate reaction is exactly as you'd expect it to be, and then Pinkie expands on it and suggests she leave town to go fix things; it all works out in the end, of course). In this case, I suspect Minty left to go fix things, couldn't do so, and was too ashamed to go back (like Applejack in The Last Roundup). That didn't stop some of her friends from finding her later, and now they're reunited on Earth.
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Thank you!
Why ratings disabled?
I think it's a good thing that the bad man showed up at the restaurant, this story was getting dangerously adorable, and I might've died of a cuteness induced heart-attack!
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Also good for the perv that he backed down. He probably would've been able to hurt Gustav, but a griffon vs. a typical human with a knife is going to end very poorly for the human. Might he be able to kill the griffon? Yes. Will he suffer fatal injury in return? Almost certainly.
Be sure to play the DNA remix of Tom's Diner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXg5pOF2PvY
Oww....ow...ow...ow...
Comfy
Wow, this was awesome! The beginning of September 7, 2020 in my life was highlighted by reading this story!
And only 229 views? Looks like I've got a new addition to a shelf!
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I'm glad you enjoyed!
Yay Spur! I really liked her.
> We wandered up and down the aisles, and I herded them toward the My Little Pony toys, thinking that would hold the most appeal
… what. I have so many questions. Is their Equestria the same as the toy-line Equestria? Are the toys supposed to have been modeled after the ponies, post-contact? Which generation is this? What is going on~~~~~
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Always happy to answer questions!
The toys would be the ones that were current to stores when the story was written, which would be Pony Life (noted by the inclusion of Potion Nova as one of the ponies they found in the store). The toys, in universe, are based on the G4 ponies, post-contact, and Pony Life is the show that resulted from that.
While I'm quite fond of bringing in ponies from previous generations, the setting of these stories is G4/FIM. Toola and Coconut Cream are fillies, since that's how they appeared in G4. Minty, Kimono, Surprise, etc. keep their personalities from their previous incarnations, but have been retooled as G4 ponies to match the setting, much as Hasbro likes to recycle ponies from one generation to the next. My way of using ponies I like in a setting they otherwise wouldn't be in.
I'm not crying, i'm-- Shut up, I'm not!
Oh man, that could be so damaging, when she grows up and learns where meat really comes from, and never trusts her parents ever again...
STOP PUNCHING MY TEAR DUCTS
a tragedy
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So true.