A man enters the store one evening with three early-teenage children in tow. He shouts that they have thirty seconds to decide what movie they're renting because Mom is waiting in the car. The young ones scuffle and argue a bit about what to get but they come to a rather quick consensus and bring the tag to the counter.
“Can I get your name?” Fernando asks as he prepares to fill out the rental slip.
“Put it under his name,” the man says, gesturing to the oldest son. “I don't want to be responsible for it in case they don't return it.”
Fernando takes those words in and mulls them over. Then he says, “The reason you just described, the one in which people don't return the movie, is precisely why an adult's name needs to be attached to the slip.”
Queerly enough, the man took it in stride and provided the requisite information without further complaint.
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