Thursday, July 11, 2013

Spiraling Into Oblivion

A pair of new customers, male and female, set up an account. They come in on a near-daily basis over the next week and a half and Fernando has no problems at all with them.
They rent Premium Rush one afternoon. After Fernando picks it out of the drop box once he arrives at the store the next day and inspects it cursorily, its underside resembles the finished product of someone with minimal spatial or mathematical awareness trying to graph a Fibbonaci sequence. Concentric arcs of the disc's plastic have been channeled away in deep, smooth gouges. Fernando grimaces. Why can't people ever carve the summoning circles for their infernal patrons into their own property?
Fernando digs through his records for the duo's number and calls them up.
-Ring ring ring-
Hello?” It is the male half of the love equation.
Yeah, hi, this is Fernando from the Dominion of Movies. I'm calling about Premium Rush.”
Oh, uh, yeah, I was gonna talk to you about this next time we came in.”
Yeah, the disc is pretty bad off. I'm afraid I have to levy a replacement fee.”
That's fine. We shouldn't have let our buddy borrow it.”
What in Cocytus? “Alrighty, I just wanted to touch base with you. We can take care of that whenever you guys are in next.”
Cool. Thanks, man.”
Thank you,” says Fernando, and hangs up.
They come in two days later to pay off the debit on their account in full and to rent again.

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