Fernando sees a man in his mid-20s come in with his girlfriend. Fernando recognizes this Girlfriend Man because of a past incident involving an unreturned movie, despite him not having come to the store in quite a long time. Fernando's memory is quite good when it comes to people owing him money. Anyhow, Girlfriend Man plucks and brings up a couple of rental tags and Fernando says to him, “You have $56 in late fees. You can’t rent until you pay that off.”
Girlfriend Man decides to get belligerent, as people always do. “From what?”
“Well, you rented a movie over two years ago and failed to return it.”
“And I got $56 in late fees from one movie how?”
“By renting it and not returning it, as I just said. Late fees add up and then it’s about twenty dollars for a replacement. It could have been a lot more, but they were stopped after less than two weeks.”
“I’m not paying $56 in late fees. Tell me what movie it is and I’ll buy a new copy, but that's it.”
“That doesn’t matter because a new copy was already bought. You still owe $56 in late fees.”
“I’m not paying $56.”
“That’s fine. Then you won't be renting.”
“I just won’t rent here anymore.”
Fernando responds, suddenly channeling The Gord, “I believe I said that just now. Door’s to my left.”
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