A strange man enters the
store one bright afternoon. It is a Wednesday, and quite possibly he
visits Saladolsa to attend the music festival which is slated to
begin the following evening. “Hey, what's a good movie?”
Fernando provides the
exact same sequence of words he always does when someone asks him that question without greater specificity. “Depends what you're
looking for. Action, comedy, horror...?”
When Fernando trails off,
it is meant as a rhetorical tool to encourage the listener to
continue mulling through film genres and styles internally, to
perhaps come to a conclusion which can then be shared with Fernando
so that the Keeper can try to do his job by using his expertise to
guide his customer to an appropriate title. When the man pauses the
conversation, Fernando assumes he is mulling over things of that
nature.
Instead, when he speaks
again half a minute later, his tone is somewhat confrontational, dare
Fernando say offended. “Is that seriously all that you got?”
Fernando had not planned
on being a pedant and holding the man's intellectual hand any longer
than necessary, but it seems he has no choice. Enter the snark. “No,
I also have other genres available. Musicals, dramas, westerns, kids
and--”
The man interjects,
“Okay, I get it.”
“--family films,
sci-fi, war, oh, okay, good.” Fernando stows away his staff of
snide words and retrieves his carrot. “Good is incredibly
subjective. I don't want to recommend, say, Last Exorcism 2 if
you think exorcism flicks are a waste of your time and money. If I
did that, you would be less likely to take to heart anything I
suggest later, because I'd been wrong before. So, what do you like to
watch, and we'll go from there.”
The man mentions Taken
and Taken 2 as movies he'd recently seen which he really
enjoys, so Fernando points out the existence of Snitch with
Dwayne “No Longer The Rock” Johnson. The man reads the back of
the case and it seems good enough, for he selects the tag and brings
it to the counter.
He doesn't even throw a
conniption over setting up the account, and the movie is in the drop
box when Fernando arrives at the store the following morning.
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