cesperanza:

They do get the food!  I think getting the food together – walking down the cracked concrete sidewalk, hearing the car radios blaring and the mix of languages – was almost as pleasant for them as the sex! Do they watch TV?–no, almost none: they watch sports sometimes though even then they prefer to go out and see the game live, and prefer minor leagues to major ones (”You’re still watching it on a goddamned screen,” Bucky complains.) They’d rather go to the park even and heckle amateurs. Do they rant about the modern world?–only when it intrudes, which it mostly doesn’t: it turns out you can turn a lot of things off. They don’t want an answering machine. They don’t want a data plan. They’re not on Twitter. They listen to the radio a lot, get their news from NPR. They still subscribe to newspapers. Bucky hates the way cars are made with computers inside them so you can’t fucking get in there to soup anything up. He had to get one of those code readers and that pissed him off. Bucky set up a coffee machine in the shop – he refuses to pay four bucks for a cup of coffee– but Steve likes to go to the upscale coffee shops that are popping up; he’s sentimental about expensive coffee, and sometimes drinks a dirty chai and feels really happy.