"i'm not trying to cheat you, young man"

today a weird uncle came to the store trying to pull a stunt on me...

he brought in 2 sample long round headed screws...asked me if we sell those kinds of screw...

i told him we only sell those flat head countersunk screws and brought him to the area where the screws were to show him...

i took one of the sample he passed to me to compare against the countersunk version we had and i could only find one that was shorter but looked like having the same diameter...he took a look and asked if both were of the same size anot...

i told him i can check for him and he proceeded to act out his oscar performance....hohoho...

he asked me where was the short sample i took from him just now cus he wanted to compare it with the short countersunk one i showed him...i returned the long one to him and he kept insisting that wasnt the one...he kept checking his pocket and said he passed it to me liao...he said he had 1 long and 1 short one...he kept insisting that the long round headed screw was MINE and i had misplaced his SHORT round headed screw in the small compartment where the short countersunk screws were kept...

i tried to reason with him that we dont even sell the round headed screws and how can i produce a LONG screw from the compartment of SHORT screws...and he started to sound very disappointed saying i must have stared at the pc for too long le...how can i not remember that i took HIS short screw...

he then said chaaam la...went all the way to chinatown and bought wat sink thing and now he missing 1 SHORT screw...and kept saying "i not trying to cheat you young man"...

then he went on to say the short countersunk screw was his and placed the long screw inside the compartment of SHORT countersunk screws and kept insisting the LONG round headed screw was mine and i took it from the compartment of SHORT countersunk screws...

i decided i couldnt reason with this best actor so i said...ok sir...this SHORT countersunk screw that u brought...how many do you want...

he said 5

so i took out 5 for him

then my boss also came by and asked best actor can he help him...then he showed my boss the short countersunk screw and asked if it could fit in the sink thing...my boss say most prob cannot and took out one of those sink things for him to try...

he tried and it cannot go in...then my boss said just buy another one of those sink thing la...

best actor pondered pondered and said hmm...the thread different hor...then he returned me the 5 countersunk screws which he "wanted to buy" and paid for the sink thing

and all through the sizzling performance, best actor did not raise his voice or become rowdy...he acted out his script nicely in gentlemanly english somemore....hohoho