Dine Story

**Dine Story** is a short, semi-animated storybook VampireMeerkat made for one of her sisters.

It was a personalized Sinterklaas gift and greatly exaggerated some life events for comedic purposes, though more often made situations up for the same reason.

The storybook is in Dutch and fully narrated by VampireMeerkat. Because of the low quality microphone used, subtitles were added.

It was created in late November of ‎2007, but because of its private nature and many in-jokes, received no official upload.

## Story

> Nadine wakes up to prepare herself for work. While she's threatening customers into purchasing an imported product not produced by the bakery itself, she's approached by the new company director, who appears to be a literal toddler. Nadine gets interviewed by her, then is warned she's standing on the edge of getting fired.
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> She returns home to find that her boyfriend's dog, Chivu, has died of starvation. She calls for him, but there's no response. The phone rings and Nadine is demanded to give up all her Will & Grace DVDs in exchange for Jeroen's life, who apparently has been kidnapped. She's hesitant and instead offers up the dead dog as food.
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> The next scene shows Nadine and Jeroen coming back from court, as the kidnapper sued her for trying to feed him a dog with a low IQ. Nadine isn't happy to have Jeroen back, but he is blind for her negativity, until a week has passed, when he decides to do something nice for her as consolation.
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> He apologizes for burning her Stephen King books in Jeroentje Story, and wishes to clean up the attic for her. While doing so, "Trashin' the Camp" from Tarzan is heard playing, insinuating he's again destroying the place. Nadine scolds him and Jeroen has already forgotten his own proposition of cleaning up.
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> Evening arrives, Nadine is burying all her "deceased" books, while Jeroen is watching soccer on TV. When he starts to complain about dinner, she feeds him the fish from his own aquarium as payback.
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> When it's time for bed, Nadine is surprised by a sudden visit from her sister, who wants to play on the Wii. They do so until Nadine dies of weight loss and rheumatism.
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## Characters

### Nadine

Nadine is the main character. She works at a bakery and has to deal with many characters that draw out her already exhausting days.

### Jeroen

Jeroen was Nadine's boyfriend at the time. He loves soccer and is either destructive or lazy in the story.

### Afra

Afra is Nadine's slightly younger sister. She visits at inconvenient times to socialize.

## Excerpts

> ***Narrator:** Het was maandag, en omdat Nadine weer eens vrij had op maandag, was het dinsdag./"It was Monday, and because Nadine once again had no work on Monday, it was Tuesday."*
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> ***Customer:** Mag ik alstublieft 2 broodjes en een marsepeine chocolade krakeling van drop?/ "May I have 2 buns, please, and a marzipan chocolate pretzel made of liquorice?"*
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> ***Nadine:** Wilt u daar een geïmporteerde zak pepernoten bij?/ "Do you want an imported bag of peppernuts with that?"*
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> ***Customer:** ..Nee../ "..No.."*
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> ***Narrator:** Toen Nadine weer thuis was, merkte ze dat Chivu weer eens dood was./ "When Nadine arrived back home again, she noticed Chivu was dead once again."*
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> ***Nadine:** Jeroen, heb je vorige maand Chivu nog eten gegeven?/ "Jeroen, did you feed Chivu last month?"*
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> ***Narrator:** Nadine en Jeroen kwamen terug van de rechtbank thuis, want Nadine was aangeklaagd voor het voeren van een hond met een veel te laag IQ aan de gangster die Jeroen geroennapt had./ "Nadine and Jeroen came back from court and arrived home, because Nadine got sued for feeding a dog with a way too low IQ to the gangster that had 'roennapped' Jeroen."*
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> ***Nadine:** Gadvere, nu ben je er weer!/ "Yucky, now you're here again!"*
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> ***Jeroen:** Ik ook van jou!/ "I love you too!"*
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> ***Narrator:**  Een weekje later kwam Jeroen net te bedenken dat Nadine misschien boos was, en om behulpzaam te wezen, wilde hij de zolder opruimen./ "A short week later, Jeroen just figured out that Nadine might be angry, and as to be helpful, wanted to clean up the attic."*
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> ***Narrator:** Nadine en Jeroen stonden op het punt om naar bed te gaan, toen er op de bel geklopt werd. Het was.. AFRA./"Nadine and Jeroen were about to go to bed, until someone knocked on their doorbell. It was.. AFRA."*
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> ***Narrator:** Nadine vroeg wat Afra hier deed, en Afra zei dat ze toevallig in de buurt was en ook nog eens haar Wii in haar handtas had laten zitten, dus kwam ze even langs en vroeg ze of Nadine zin had om te spelen./"Nadine asked what Afra was doing here, and Afra said she happened to be in the neighbourhood and had also left her Wii in her handbag, so she made a quick visit and asked if Nadine was in the mood to play."*
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> ***Nadine:** Het is drie uur na middernacht!/"It's 3 after midnight!"*
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> ***Afra:** Ja, de nacht is nog jong./"Yes, the night is still young."*
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## Trivia

* "Dine" (*pronounced "dee-nuh"*) is a nickname primarily used by VampireMeerkat.
* The animation was created as a response to the earlier Jeroentje Story, which had become a family favourite.
* Jeroen's shirt always has some kind of soccer-related uttering on it, which changes every scene.
* Nadine's shirt sometimes has an image or word on it as well, depending on her emotion.