At around four in the afternoon a young woman bolts across the parking lot from where she had just pulled up. She had just opened a new account about a week before and had been in to rent a couple of times since then. She hauls ass into the store and slams three movies down upon the counter's surface and brushes strands of hair away from her forehead. “Am I late?” she asks.
Fernando blinks in surprise. “No. Not at all. Not even close. I admire your dedication, though.”
She breaths a sigh of relief. “Okay. You said they had to be back by seven, and it's after four now.”
Fernando approaches the counter to replace the movies on the shelves. “You...you thought I meant seven in the morning?” he asks, pausing in his labors.
“Well, yeah,” she admits with a small fidget of embarrassment.
“God, that would make me the worst kind of sadist in the world.”
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