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This Week's Special:
Jack 'Cheese' Hoffman is the
voice on the insurance claim phone line and that voice is Casey
Mongillo's. It is work, money is
solid, it is not a company that necessarily tries to wriggle out of payments.
There are KPIs but Cheese listened, in perverse fascination, to customer's
belief that their totalled car had magic front-passenger door. Cheese
white-knuckled an interstate drive over the weekend and found said car door
amongst the lilly pillies.
The Toyota Rav 4 Front
Passenger Door of Beer Transfiguration has a window. A carton of beer, when
viewed through this window, appears like a different carton of beer. Tapping on
the glass will transform the beers into the visualised alternative. The
operator must be wearing sunscreen for this to be successful.
Cheese does not believe it
and wants this car door gone. The market for this product is somebody enthusiastic
about beer and appreciative of casual opportunity to add, or sneak, value. The
door can be left at home but that sorta' defeats the purpose. Cheese keeps an
eye out for Rav 4s and occasionally leaves a handwritten note under windscreen
wiper. The market response is typically to nod, smile and back away slowly.
Unless that market is
Nathan.
Nathan chose
pizza shop work to network but now said network orders pizzas delivered
specifically by him. Only once was that, gloriously, for sex. Usually it is
because some dark lord or another is hosting a casual shindig in underworld and
their assistant has Nathan's phone number. One such shindig was nightmarish,
inhuman intelligences rending one another's flesh. A beer keg, full, was mangled
into a bong. Anime music was playing. But party is party, Nathan stayed for a drink, met
interesting people, met entrepreneurial types, left with ten Bomb Begones.
A Bomb Begone operates similar to a Catnip Page - it is a blank scroll rolled around a
complimentary cigarette. The cigarette's smoke spreads words across the naked
page, options which can be selected with a stab of dart's ember. The first
question:
Do You?
Want a bomb defused
or, Want to defuse a bomb
Selecting the former leads
to questionnaire regarding bomb details and payment method. Selecting the
latter provides list of local bombs to defuse and corresponding rewards. Bomb
Begone is essentially Uber for bomb disposal.
Nathan wanders ten A.M.
streets with lit catnip and tobacco, wonders how to sell these Bomb Begones.
The market is not the taxi driver degraded into using their own car, it is
someone who fills spare time opportunely. It is someone who has seen 'The Hurt
Locker' and related. It is someone completely civilian, bored and willing to
risk life for shits, giggles, profit and the greater good.
That market is Cheese.
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