fandomhigh | Retail 101, Monday morning, All and Sundries

Edmund is once again sitting on a stool behind the counter.

"Currying favor. It's a grand tradition. Call the person who curries favor well what you will, sycophant, lacky, brown noser - the fact of the matter is that the person who kisses up to the owner and the customer the best is the one who is going to get the promotions, the raises, and the days off when he or she asks for them."

Edmund stands up and favors the students with a smile that, by now, most recognize bodes ill for someone.

"Today you will break up into pairs and will be competing against your 'partner' for my favor. He or she who wins my favor will receive an All and Sundries gift certificate. How to win? Insult your partner, clean my shop, come up with a way to convince Baldrick to bathe, do something to make me happy. Succeed, and you win riches and possibly early dismissal. Fail, and you will be here for the entirety of today's session and I will send Baldrick to recite the grand tale of his great-grandfather's boil to you - the unexpurgated version."

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"Yay for understanding!" Willow said, possibly vastly overestimating her and Zack's grasp of the situation.

"Where are the cake and tea?" Baldrick asked, looking around.

"Zack has it," Willow said, without hesitation.

Zack's reaction to that resembled flailing in no way, shape or form. "Yes, yes I do."

"I don't see it," Baldrick said, looking around.

"That's because it's in storage. In the special cake with sprinkles storage container."

"And it would spoil if taken out too early," Willow added.

Baldrick was confused again. Surprise. "I should go. You're not going to do anything bad to me, are you? Me mum warned me about people acting nice and offering cake."

"Of course not," Zack said. "We're only trying to help you."

"Help me what?" Baldrick shuffled back a few paces.

"Aviod the plague."

"With cake?"

"And tea."

"Have you tried a hole in your head to let out those bad humours?" Baldrick started digging in his pockets. "Only I have leeches, too."

"My appointment for that is next Tuesday."

"Right you are, sir." Baldrick was shuffling away some more. Usually you had to get someone to hold the person down for trepanation. This fellow was making appointments?

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