Breaking Bread With Bad Customers
(I’m using a bread slicer machine to slice a loaf of bread for a customer.)
Customer: “No, no. You did it wrong!”
Me: “Excuse me?”
(I show him the bread. He points out a small indent in the bread and says I need to slice another loaf while holding the top of the bread slicer machine up so it doesn’t squish the bread. I comply, and the bread comes out clean with no minor dents. I place the rejected bread on the sample board, and as the customer is checking out, he takes slice of the bread.)
Me: “So, the bread wasn’t good enough to buy, but still good enough to eat?”
Customer: “That’s right.”
(I wish I could have charged him for that.)
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