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Bloom slowly swayed in place as he looked between the two different green bean seed packets for what seemed to be the hundredth time. He had realized about five minutes ago that he didn't know enough to be able to choose properly and was now desperately trying to figure out how to extract himself from the shop.

Yesterday he had decided to start growing some green beans in Mom's garden, and today had finally found the courage to trot over to the seed store. While he had lately become braver and found himself getting out more into more public places, he was still very aware of the people around him. Especially in cases like this one, where he could feel the clerk behind the counter looking at him, waiting for him to make a choice so that they could ring him up.

I wish I could just fall through the floor...

Bloom startled, nearly tipping over a seed display case, but catching himself in the nick of time to prevent a true catastrophe. As he turned to meet the startle-r, he found that he vaguely recognized the phony. He couldn't quite put his hoof on where, however, which likely meant the older phony was a friend of his parents, and that he had seen him at a family gathering of some sort.

Put a little at ease by the fact that the phony wasn't a complete stranger, Bloom's politeness kicked into gear, allowing him to answer: "Um, w-well, yes? At l-least, I-I think s-so. S-seeds-s are c-cool!" Unconsciously looking back at the seed packets, Bloom once again remembered his conundrum, and lowered his gaze, mumbling to the floor, "A-at leas-st, when y-you k-know wh-which ones y-you n-need..."