Jonathan was a 18 year old high school graduate. He didn’t like senior year, and now he’s been thrown into life with no warning.
He has a job with decent pay. Anyone would kill for 15 an hour, but it has its sacrifices. 8 am to 5 pm of hard work and sweat. He worked at a company that mainly deals with clothes and shipping them, but there’s a small branch that works in logos. Jonathan worked at that branch and dealt with the logos.
Jonathan got to a point that he got tired of the manual labor. Pushing and pulling boxes, using a heat press to put a logo on something, and packing up those objects just to put them in a truck. So when Jonathan heard about the Regressive Store, he was interested.
Jonathan was driving home after Christmas shopping for his parents and little brother. He loved them for what they do, so he wanted to gift them things. He also owed them for letting him stay at the house while the only requirement is to pay 1/3 of the bills. That allowed him to save a lot of money. So he bought presents for them. He’d surprise them when they returned from their holiday vacation.
Suddenly, Jonathan heard the Regressive Store ad on the radio. He heard about it, but didn’t believe it at first. There claims to be people who actually regress, but Jonathan has to see it to believe it.
He looked up the nearest location and saw it wasn’t farther than a hop and a skip away. Jonathan decided to go and see what they have.
Jonathan parked his car in the parking lot and locked it. He put the keys in his pocket and walked towards the store.
A woman exited the store with a small bag and a box of diapers. She held the door open for Jonathan, who thanked her as he entered.
Inside the store looked no different than any other store, except they had limited products.
Jonathan walked around and inspected the products.
“Baby milk for newborns, pacifier lubricant for one year olds, diaper rash cream, pills for the curious three year old? These products are really age specific.”
“May I help you sir?” a woman asked. She somewhat startled Jonathan, but he tried to pretend like nothing happened.
He turned around to face the woman and saw that she had a name tag with the words, “Fae” on it. “Hi yes could you explain how all of this works. I kinda don’t believe you can be a kid again with some baby milk or pills.”
“It’s easy to understand. If a product has a age on it, that will be the age you’ll become. But if you see something like this rash cream, you’d need to look at the fine print for the age. It says here that this cream is for 5 year olds.”
“But does it make you grow up again?”
“No sir, almost everything here has a short period of change time. The pills have the longest of 3 days while everything else is about a day.”
“Could you show me around so I can see my options before buying?”
“Sure, I’ll show them by age.”
“These are the newborn products. You’d be turned into a helpless newborn baby. I do recommend informing someone you know before using these due to the fact that you need the entire attention.”
The woman showed milk formula, pills, rash cream, and even body wash and lotion. Jonathan didn’t fully have interest in buying something from the newborn section.
“Here we have the section for 1 year olds. Most struggle to walk at this age, but you’ll pick it up fast. This one is fun when you have an adult to take care of you.”
It was almost the same thing, but different products. Baby milk, rash cream, lotion, pills, body and hair wash. Except this time, there were flavored pacifier lubricant and “gum soothing cream”. Jonathan assumed it was for those who were growing their teeth in, which was the only problem he had with being 1.
“As we walk here, we have products for 2 year olds. You’ll be able to walk, run, and jump all around in your household. I’ve been told being 2 with friends is loads of fun.”
Once again, the same products. Except there was an “anti pacifier cream”. Jonathan wouldn’t care if a 2 year old had a pacifier still, it didn’t matter to him. He also didn’t have friends to try this out with, so he couldn’t have that luxury.
“Now we’ve reached the terrible 3’s. Anyone using these products claims they found enjoyment in parks more than others. You’ll be able to fully walk and walk with no one wondering or how. Just be ready to hear others complain about your little dirty diapers”
To no surprise, the same products were there. However there was sunscreen. At this point, Jonathan can tell what the products for four year olds were.
“Now here is our second to last section. Any 4 year old could walk, talk, and have potty accidents. You can enjoy the sun and play around nude with no one to care. That’s just was little boys do.”
Jonathan saw that he was right. Pills, lotion, showering products, but this time it was different flavored milk products instead of baby formula. The sunscreen was there too.
“Now finally, we have the last aisle. This is where ages 5 through 10 can be accessed. We have limited products since not many people buy these.”
All of the products like lotion, pills, showering, milk, and even just plain old rash cream were here. It was rare at this point to find anything for diapers.
“Would you like to buy anything?”
Jonathan knew what age to try out. It will allow him to relax without worrying about work anymore. He headed to a specific aisle for its products.