So I was thinking...

[leethet]

... as I was driving home from work ... you never see the guys, like, do grocery shopping, do you? Then I thought about how rarely they'd have time to reliably do things like that, and I wondered, does UNCLE have a grocery service? So the agents don't get poisoned or turned via mind-altering drugs?

Any theories on how they do basic housekeeping type stuff?

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[veronicaluv.livejournal.com]

As far as housekeeping, shopping, etc, I'd say they have services for all that, with staff thoroughly vetted by security. UNCLE always struck me as a very closed and tight knit society, so their likes and dislikes were probably well documented. Heck, there's probably a whole division given over to procurement.

I can see them living in a secured building, but I admit I have a kind of romantic (no, me? really?) idea of how they live. For some reason I see Illya as having a very precise and eclectic set of belongings that he's schlepped around and likes just so. It'd be cliche to think of Napoleon living in a swinging bachelor pad and I don't think he does. I see him more in of a classic, subdued, comfortable place, with books. Lots of books *g*.

Realizing I have no basis in canon to support this, I claim the right of a lifelong fan to make stuff up ;).

[leethet.livejournal.com]

But, see, this makes total sense to me. They send the guys to an island they own to train them, for God's sake. They must have a huge investment in them - too much to leave them at risk when such a simple thing as a trusted/bonded/watched grocer could prevent (or at least greatly reduce the risk of) poisoning or will gas or something. Like the monitored apartments, it's just protecting their investment.