Potence

A guy and his girlfriend come into the store one afternoon. Fernando greets them but they ignore him, as the dude is talking on his cell phone and the girl did not seem to want to engage in social niceties with anybody.

Fernando turns back to his computer as the guy continues his conversation. He speaks quite loudly and the volume on his cell phone is also cranked up, to the point that Fernando can hear the noises coming out of it from about twenty feet away. He tunes the conversation out, as he has no interest in prying.

Fernando snaps back to attention when he hears the gent say the words, “I'm telling you, they ain't got nothing here.” He half-swivels his chair about to make sure no one is in need of his inestimable services, but the man is intent upon his cell. Fernando can hear the conversational partner saying words and there is the sound of a crying baby in the background.

“No, I'm serious,” the guy says. “They ain't got nothing new.” A pause, some word-exchange happens. “No, I don't see it.” Another pause. “Hang on, I'll ask.”

The guy turns to Fernando. “Hey, you got Cowgirls and Angels here?”

“Do you mean Cowboys and Aliens?”

“No, I mean Cowgirls and Angels.”

“No, then I'm afraid I do not.”

The man focuses his attention on the cell phone as Fernando is about to continue, so Fernando stops. “No, he doesn't have it.” Pause. “I'm not going to Family Video.” Pause. “I don't care if your daughter got it from there! This place don't have it!”

The pair leaves. Fernando watches them go in bemusement.

As Fernando was about to tell the gent before he was cut off, Cowgirls and Angels was not due for release until October 2^nd, so it would have been a great feat of prowess indeed had Fernando broken the rules of time, space, and product release dates.