How about eggs, cheap and no smell?

The hybrid system makes total sense, not weird at all. I do the same thing but flipped: digital for the stuff I just want to read once, and floppies only for my top 5 titles and anything with a variant cover I can't resist. Coffee near the tablet is way less scary than coffee near a 30 year old X-Men, that part really hit home for me.

That line about him clearing a few bucks off you each visit is the whole scam in a nutshell, because every taco you eat just resets the clock on money he already spent. Dude's basically got a free loan and a guaranteed customer at the same time, which is honestly kind of genius if it wasn't your $2,300.