SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Monochrome overhead night surveillance frame of a commercial strip, pooled lamplight over a parking lot
PASS 0147
2148 LOCAL
CLEAR
NIGHT PASS
A folded paper takeaway bag on a kitchen counter at night, a wrapped fork beside it and a chipped enamel mug further along, only the light over the sink on
in case
Medium — polaroid
SLV-0147

The Remainder

If you do not finish the food, they will put the rest of it in a box, and you take it away with you.

I did not know this was permitted. I had eaten as much as I could and was preparing to apologise for the remainder when the server took the plate away and came back with a box and a small folded bag, and inside the bag she had put a fork. In case.

In case.

You eat it later, at home, standing at the counter, at an hour when nobody is watching, and it is not as good as it was, and that is not the point. The point appears to be that a meal is permitted to continue after the room it began in has closed.

We have no arrangement like this. What is left at a table at home is left at the table.

Office annotationCorrespondent SLV-4 refers to the practice of removing uneaten restaurant food. The Office notes that a meal eaten standing up is thummok and is impolite on Slarvathia. The Correspondent appears to be aware of this.