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// Minty 
// Story: My Little Pony Confessions 
// by StrandedGeek 
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This... is Fizzy Blend, Fizzy Blend works as a soda jerk at a 5 star Ice cream shop at Canterlot Castle called the Classic Scoop. Sometimes ponies stop in to a have a float, they share stories and even secrets for as we all know that what soda jerk hears is confidential isn’t? 

Minty-

So I there I am tending bar when in walks a strange pony I have never seen before, Minty. Now Minty I’ve heard rumors about how she’s not from around here. She’s got mint colored coat with pink and white mane. She sits down and has a peppermint shake.
“This place certainly has changed hasn’t it.” She said casually.
“Change what do you mean?” I ask.
She says, “I mean everything, there guy ponies, we have ponies of all ages, and for once the fillies look normal, and…they actually act like intelligent ponies.”
I gave her a very confusing look, “What do you mean?”
“Well, I don’t really even know anymore. Where I came from originally we didn’t have any of that. I mean the mares I hanged out with…acted like foals. And…really not very bright ones either.”
I simply shrugged, “Well…I guess somethings do change.”
She sighs, “Yeah, weird thing is…some of the ponies I knew don’t even recognize me. And lot of them act differently, I mean Pinkie Pie still does parties but would believe she threw me a Welcome to Ponyville Party? She said she had never met me before. We were really good friends!” 
Now I was greatly confused, Pinkie isn’t the kind pony to forget someone very easily. She dedicates her life knowing just who everypony is.
“And then Rainbow Dash she surprised me even more. I mean I always thought she always dressing in style but now suddenly Rarity is the fashion pony and Rainbow Dash is into sports and flying!” Minty adds. She drinks some more of her smoothie and looks up at me, “Did you ever…wake up one morning and… feel like you’re on the wrong side of looking glass?”
I said to her, “I actually know an Alice pony who could probably answer that better than I can.”
She simply shrugs again. “One really weird thing is…my cutie mark.”
“Your cutie mark?” I ask.
“Yes, I mean I like mint candies and it seems to match my name but…it really doesn’t have anything to do with my passion.” She explains.
So I said, “Well what exactly is your passion?”  
“Socks, I love socks. I don’t know why, I just find them fun. There so many variety of them, I like making them, I love wearing them. And yet…I have mint candies for a cutie mark. Not even like Mint Candy looking socks.” She sighs.
Well I sat and thought for a moment and then I confessed to her, “Well not everything you do has to be around your cutie mark. I mean Cheerliee’s has a flower cutie mark but she’s a teacher not a gardener. She says that the flowers meant she likes to help foals grow and learn.”
Minty sighs, “I guess that makes sense.”
And then I added, “And me, I mean look at me. Ponies come in to vent like I’m some kind of therapist but I’m not. I’m just a soda jerk. Yet I happen to be very good at just listening to ponies vent.”
She pays for another mint smoothie, “Yeah…that is weird.”
“What you need to do is to go and try to find what your mark means again I guess. Maybe it has to do with the idea of being fresh. Like you like Fresh clean socks out of the dryer or something.” I suggested.
She says, “Hey there’s an idea: Minty Fresh Laundry service. I could make clothing smell minty fresh and that would bridge it together with my sock passion.
Well I thought about it and I actually thought that might not be a bad idea. But it did get me a little curious about something. I said to her, “Minty if I may ask…why do you like socks so much?”
She looks at me and says, “Do you honestly not know how important socks are? I mean really?”
I shook head and I said, “No not really…I have hooves we ponies don’t normally wear clothing.”
She grins and says, “And that’s part of it right there. Ponies for some reason wearing clothing especially long socks make them look and feel sexy. You could can do so much with socks. You can make puppets out of them, foals can look cute and adorable with them. You can fun organizing them, there are so many patterns and designs to them. You can sneak around the house with your padded hooves, you zap ponies with static electricity. And they keep your hooves warm. Honestly: I don’t know how ponies can overlook such a meaningful piece of clothing.”
I admit I didn’t really stop to think about it. I mean she’s right you could do a lot with socks. I said, “Wow, maybe socks should have been your cutie mark.”
She smirks and says, “I know…maybe I’m reaching too deep for this but I swear I might be on to something here. And just go with me on this one…what if: You could find the meaning of life in your sock draw. Think about it, you organize them in just the right way, color, size, style and the boom….suddenly the world makes sense to you.”
I thought for a moment and then I had to ask, “Do you really think if you did sort out your socks, that somehow that would help explain why you feel so…out of place?”
She shrugs and says, “I can only hope.”

Now I did here that Minty Fresh Laundry was going well but last… I heard of Minty she was severing time. Apparently she got a little too fresh with a royal guard and didn’t know when to put a sock in it. I guess we don’t know what we want for sure. Sometimes ponies want change sometimes they don’t. And sometimes you just don’t know what gonna pop out of the dryer.

You see lot of strange things a Soda jerk you see a lot of strange things at the Classic Scoop so I see a lot of strange things as a Soda jerk at the Classic Scoop and that ain’t no lie Pinkie Pie promise!