Only after asking did I realize.
With that question, I had 'completed' it.
"Like a late teenager? Of course, your actual age must be countless..."
Asking an employee if I look young for my age.
...Anyway.
This is strange.
"Your button has fallen off. I can give you one..."
"Ah! Thank you, but it's fine. A button factory was built recently, and buttons are in abundance. I'll just attach a new one I bought last time."
"...I see."
The attitude of the clerk from the community is somewhat... extravagant.
Well, our community people have always lived somewhat luxuriously. But this feels different.
We always struggled with a shortage of everyday items. Most daily necessities were all imported.
And no matter how much money we had, there was a limit to the quantity of daily necessities we could have delivered across the Atlantic.
Paper, hairpins, buttons, hair oil, ink, and so on... these things were always in short supply even if we used them sparingly.
