We currently have the promotional tie-in with Star Trek at the pkace I work.
That means, I get to steal the free toys and a nice discount on the four collectors glasses.
But that's not the best thing.
I...just me...get the display stand for the glasses. It's pretty sweet looking. Almost 6 feet tall. Features Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Nero standing in front of Earth and the Enterprise. And has four "bubbles" where the glasses sit.
And when we are done with the promotion, it's coming home to me.
The funny thing is, we'll have customers coming in who want it. Too bad. I got dibs.
In fact, just the other day, this lady came in with some funny looking kid in a wheelchair.
As they passed by the display stand, they stopped and the kid just stared it.
They get up and place their order. so I go back into the kitchen and make it.
After I make the food, I get called back up to the front by cashier.
She points to the woman and says she would like to have a word with me.
Now, I hate talking to customers. In my many years of doing this type of job, I have discovered one universal rule.
Customers are stupid.
Nevertheless...
I approach the customer, she begins to talk. She asks me if I'm the gentleman who is getting the Star Trek thing.
I nod and look over at it and smile.
She then says her son has Richard Dreyfus muscular dystrophy, or some such nonsense. I look over at the kid, he looked retarded. to me, but I never cann tell with these things.
She says he has loved Star Trek since he was young and it would mean the world to him if they could get the display stand.
I made a deep sigh. She noticed.
She said she would pay me 20 dollars for it.
I look over at it again and then back to the Jerry's kid.
Knowing I was on the clock, I tried to find the right words to say to this woman. What I wanted to say was "There is no chance in hell your kid is getting that thing".
Well, she was impatient towards my hesitation and did something I deem unforgivable.
She tries to appeal to my "good nature".
She says the doctors haven't given her son much time to live, and this Richard Dreyfus MD can kill at any time.
I let her have it.
I said to her, "Listen lady, when I stand in front of it and drool, it's because I have a deep appreciation for what I'm looking at, when your son is drooling in front of it, it's because he doesn't know how to close his mouth. Now, that thing is not going to somebody is going to be dead before the new Trek movie is even out on DVD. I'll tell you what, I'll let your son borrow it until he is dead if he can give me the Vulcan salute."
Needless to say, that customer won't be coming back.
That display is going to look so good in my room.
