Paying Customers
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Hi. Good morning.
I would like to have 10 pounds,
Of the salmon steak.
And 3 pounds of the...
'Calm down.
What's the rush?
(looking around)
Uh...excuse me?
I have been standing here.
Patiently.
'Can't you see me,
Unpacking other fish?
To put them on display?'
Ooo...
Someone has yet to read,
The employee manual.
Do you know,
What the benefits...
Of a paying customer is?
'I don't have the time,
To discuss your version of it.
Give me a few more minutes.
And you and I can discuss,
What it is I do...
Before customers like you,
Enter this store to demand attention.'
Say what?
I see.
I bet your manager will find the time,
To listen to my recommendations.
'I hope that happens.
And maybe then,
You will also suggest...
I get a raise to do more,
Than the other employees...
Walking around the store,
Doing less and getting paid for it!'
Oh yeah?
That seems to be a management problem.
Just how fresh is that fish anyway?
'Believe this or not,
Before you stopped me...
All of it was fresh.
Until you began interrupting me.
Now...
For whatever the reason,
They have begun to thaw!
So I can not say,
How fresh they had been to stay that way.'
Well..
Why haven't they been put on ice?
At the price and the cost of them.
You could have at least...
Taken that into consideration.
'When you have that discussion,
With my manager?
Also tell him how rude and disrespectful,
I had been to you too!'
Why?
So you can get that raise?
And prove you are better,
Handling the demands...
Of customers like me?
To set an example,
For those employees you complain about?
When you find the time,
Please...
Give me what I came in here to get.
'And that was?
I have forgotten.'
THE FISH!
'Okay. Okay, calm down!
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Characters | 1,617 |
Words | 321 |
Stanzas | 15 |
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