“With great
power comes great responsibility.”
Nikola Tesla*
#quote
Today I went
out to lunch with my family, it was scrumptious. Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
A Well Timed
Argument
The clock maker's assistant, Tom, watched his boss and a customer argue over a
matter of business.
“It is a
simple matter, pick up your watch tomorrow at eleven in the morning.”
The clockmaker said. Tom recognized the same angry tone his boss
always took when finding something unreasonable in his eyes.
The customer
replied, “Well how can I pick up my watch when I can't tell what
time it is? I have no clocks! That's why I'm having you make one.”
The clock maker
grew frustrated. “That shouldn't be my problem! And I don't loan
out merchandise just so you can pick up some later.”
The customer
pouted like a child, “I am not waiting around your store.”
“I wouldn't
want you lurking around it for hours on end.” The clockmaker hated
the idea of someone in his store without any more money to spend.
Tom gave a
suggestion, “Since you'll have the watch done by eleven how about
he just comes at twilight? That means you'll know when to get his
clock out and he'll know when to come.”
His boss and
the customer nodded. “Makes sense,” said the clockmaker. That
would be the sixth argument the clock maker's assistant resolved
today between his employer and a customer. He wondered how many it
would be tomorrow.
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