Toast - The Big Bang Theory fanfic
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elen_nareTitle: Toast
Rating: G
WIP: Complete/335 words
Main Characters/Pairings: Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstader, Howard Wolowitz, Rajesh Koothrappali.
Genre: Gen
Spoilers: None
Summary: At breakfast in a hotel, Sheldon runs into trouble with the toast.
Author's notes: Written for the "triangle" challenge at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fan_flashworks. This is also my first fanfic for a non-book fandom!
“Oh, no. Oh, this is all wrong.”
Leonard groaned inwardly. Already? He looked quickly around the hotel’s dining room, but couldn’t see anything obviously wrong, and Howard and Raj were clearly just as puzzled as he was. There was no choice.
“What’s wrong, Sheldon?”
“They’ve cut the toast into triangles!” Sheldon complained. “How am I supposed to eat that?”
“What’s wrong with triangular toast?” Raj asked, taking a piece from the toast rack and buttering it.
“What’s wrong… Isn’t it obvious?!”
“No, but I’m sure you’re about to enlighten us” Howard muttered.
Sheldon continued, ignoring the interruption.
“I want to have two slices of toast. How, exactly, am I supposed to determine which halves belong together?”
“So just take four halves, they’re all pretty much the same” Raj answered.
“They probably put both halves next to each other, Sheldon” Leonard added, without much hope that that would solve the problem.
“Really? ‘Pretty much the same’? ‘Probably?’ Do you apply that principle to your research, too?” Sheldon inquired acidly. “And even if you are correct, there is just as much probability of getting half of one slice, a whole slice, and half of another as there is of successfully obtaining two whole slices. It’s simply not good enough.”
“If you take five pieces, you’re guaranteed to get two whole slices and a half.”
Sheldon looked distinctly unimpressed by Raj’s suggestion.
“But I don’t want two and a half slices, I want two.”
“Then have something else, if it bothers you that much! Just have some breakfast so we can get to the first lecture on time!” Howard snapped.
“Have something else? Don’t be absurd” Sheldon replied. “No, there must be a solution to this. Perhaps if I measured the pieces, I could determine which ones belong together… Where are you going, Leonard?”
“To the kitchen, to ask for two uncut slices of toast” he sighed. Breakfast on the first day and he was already considering murder… going to conferences with Sheldon was always so much fun.
Rating: G
WIP: Complete/335 words
Main Characters/Pairings: Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstader, Howard Wolowitz, Rajesh Koothrappali.
Genre: Gen
Spoilers: None
Summary: At breakfast in a hotel, Sheldon runs into trouble with the toast.
Author's notes: Written for the "triangle" challenge at
fan_flashworks. This is also my first fanfic for a non-book fandom!“Oh, no. Oh, this is all wrong.”
Leonard groaned inwardly. Already? He looked quickly around the hotel’s dining room, but couldn’t see anything obviously wrong, and Howard and Raj were clearly just as puzzled as he was. There was no choice.
“What’s wrong, Sheldon?”
“They’ve cut the toast into triangles!” Sheldon complained. “How am I supposed to eat that?”
“What’s wrong with triangular toast?” Raj asked, taking a piece from the toast rack and buttering it.
“What’s wrong… Isn’t it obvious?!”
“No, but I’m sure you’re about to enlighten us” Howard muttered.
Sheldon continued, ignoring the interruption.
“I want to have two slices of toast. How, exactly, am I supposed to determine which halves belong together?”
“So just take four halves, they’re all pretty much the same” Raj answered.
“They probably put both halves next to each other, Sheldon” Leonard added, without much hope that that would solve the problem.
“Really? ‘Pretty much the same’? ‘Probably?’ Do you apply that principle to your research, too?” Sheldon inquired acidly. “And even if you are correct, there is just as much probability of getting half of one slice, a whole slice, and half of another as there is of successfully obtaining two whole slices. It’s simply not good enough.”
“If you take five pieces, you’re guaranteed to get two whole slices and a half.”
Sheldon looked distinctly unimpressed by Raj’s suggestion.
“But I don’t want two and a half slices, I want two.”
“Then have something else, if it bothers you that much! Just have some breakfast so we can get to the first lecture on time!” Howard snapped.
“Have something else? Don’t be absurd” Sheldon replied. “No, there must be a solution to this. Perhaps if I measured the pieces, I could determine which ones belong together… Where are you going, Leonard?”
“To the kitchen, to ask for two uncut slices of toast” he sighed. Breakfast on the first day and he was already considering murder… going to conferences with Sheldon was always so much fun.
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Date: 2012-02-21 09:03 pm (UTC)That being said, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Sheldon wants two pieces of toast! Not two and a half, two!
I loved it. :)
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Date: 2012-02-22 12:35 pm (UTC)Two and a half? What use would that be? :P
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:23 pm (UTC)“Really? ‘Pretty much the same’? ‘Probably?’ Do you apply that principle to your research, too?"
What a scientist-y thing to say.
I like the solution, just ask for two unsliced pieces. :)
BTW, a tiny nitpick...you forgot the commas before quotation marks again. ;) *beta mode off*
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Date: 2012-02-22 10:01 pm (UTC)I think I might have seen an episode or two of Monk, but I don't remember it much.
It was ask for two unsliced pieces or listen to Sheldon complain all day... I think Leonard made the right choice :P
Argh, why can I not format dialogue correctly? Maybe I should stop using quotation marks entirely, like some authors do - except for the fact that that convention drives me nuts, and I think it's rather pretentious... Ah, well, at least I put the periods inside the quotation marks this time around ;) Seriously, though, thanks for pointing it out! I'll fix it on AO3 (ff.net is too much of a pain to edit!).
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Date: 2012-02-23 05:28 am (UTC)Hehehehe, don't worry about the commas too much. That's what betas are for.
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Date: 2012-02-23 12:59 pm (UTC)I was being a bit melodramatic ;)