Around these parts, the time of the year in which it is legal to hunt deer is impossibly serious business, to the point that schools and businesses close. A great many people come from out of town and Fernando sees them for only about one week a year, but he nevertheless considers them to be regular customers; he recognizes their names and faces and these people make it a point to stop in nearly every day during the season. Fernando enjoys their business and they, if their actions are any indication, enjoy Fernando's businessmanship.
In this case, a person Fernando has never seen before enters the store about half an hour before closing. He is wearing hunting camo gear and has in tow a teenage son also wearing hunting camo. He saunters up to the counter and slams his hands down upon it and asks, “D’ya have any huntin’ videos?”
Fernando pauses at his work (he’s currently updating the late list) and says, “No, I’m afraid we don’t.”
“Well, why not?”
Fernando now needs to come up with a good reason, since no hunter has ever asked this question of him at any point in recorded history. So he falls back on the old standby he uses whenever anyone asks why he doesn't have Movie X: “Because they wouldn’t rent very well.”
“It’s stupid that you don’t have them. If you had some here I would be renting them, but now you just lost a customer.” The person Fernando has never seen before then exits the store. Fernando goes back to updating the late list.
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