
I don’t carry enough at one time that it’ll matter if someone is stupid enough to steal from me. I get that you’re worried I’ll lose some of your supply if I get jacked, but I’m smarter than that. Ricky doesn’t make offers like that, and I don’t like that he’s making them with me. Whatever it is you’re scared of losing in cash, I’ll pay. My customers are right unless they try to cheat me and then I’m nasty.

Maybe I should force everyone to adopt your customer service philosophy. It’s always a pleasure to speak with you. He fake cackles and it’s the type that swamps me with the urgent need to shower and clean myself of filth. The honor roll employee with the customer’s-always-right attitude. Maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction and retention while getting my beauty rest and finishing my homework isn’t as easy as I make it seem. I try for a faster turnover rate now because school can eat into my delivery time, and I like for them to have memories of a time when I delivered immediately. I’ve got regulars who get cranky when I don’t meet their expectations, plus it’s summer. Too many stacks of cash for someone my age, but at the same time, not nearly enough. Every time I open this little compartment I’m half relieved and half sickened.

I’m going to be the teenager that everyone, even you, keeps reminding me that I am.įour screws out and the door loosens. I interview potential clients before I sell because I’m paranoid like that. After I meet a few clients to sell them what they’re interested in buying, I’m hanging with friends and then I’m meeting with a new potential client. Tough, because I’m going to a club tonight. I heard from reasonable sources there are people going after some of my assets this evening. The loud background laughter and conversation on his end fades and I wonder if he’s also entering his private space that includes his personal cubby hole full of cash. If you’re going to listen to the crap, at least do it right and read your horoscope in the paper like the rest of us. Because your fortune cookie warned you off from bad business meetings. I move the plastic shelves that hold our towels to the side, roll up the wallpaper that was held in place with Velcro, then use the screwdriver to take the wooden door in the wall off.

I’m telling you that you should cancel your plans for the evening, he says. By the way, I’m not funny, but I am crazy.

I make him nervous, and in our line of business, trusting the wrong person can be a fatal mistake so he chooses not to believe I’m crazy and instead chooses to think I’m funny. Next you’ll tell me the stars realigned themselves to foretell my doom and a voice called down from the heavens telling you I should stay in bed. I cradle my cell against my ear, shut the upstairs bathroom door of my house, lock the knob, then use the chain I added for extra security. Rule number one from my father: never let them know you’re scared.
