Faulty Goods

-Ring ring ring-

“Hello, Dominion of Movies.”

“Yeah, I wanted to let you know that the copy of The Social Network I rented isn't working.”

“Peculiar,” responds Fernando, while he is rifling through his rental slips to find out who has out what copies of The Social Network. Turns out there's only one copy out at the moment, and three guesses in which pile the slip is located, and to top it all off the person in question is one of those people who constantly tries to wheedle for the tiniest of benefits to himself.

“Yeah, so I wanted to know if I can get like a free rental or something.”

“I think we can work something out. Come on down and we'll haggle this out.” This seems to satisfy the man, and the guy hangs up.

Twenty minutes later, he comes to the store and drops the movie onto the counter. “So, free rental, right?”

Fernando grabs the movie and inspects it for scratches and other obvious forms of damage. “Tell you what: you get a free rental, and you pay the nine dollars in late fees you've racked up while keeping at home this movie that didn't work.”

“Uh...I didn't bring any money with me.”

“That's fine. You can take care of it next time you're in.” Fernando smiles.

“Erm....uhhh....” the man hems and haws. Then he leaves the store at damn near a jog.

Idiot.