The other bothered sales associate, who I'll call Joe, had no customers waiting for him, but was called on to help check Bob's customers out.
He may have 60 customers waiting for him with their Shiner's Club cards.
Soon, Mr. David started taking a van on his trips from King of Prussia, and before long, customers were waiting for him, complaining when he was late, and putting in orders in advance for rice, stew and fish that his sister-in-law made back in Pennsylvania.
"The very way of thinking about the system has to change," said Moussa Eid, the owner of the cafe Mr. Shazli frequented, sipping coffee and scolding customers for daring to interrupt him.
One of my boyfriend's customers, for example, once called him and asked to be picked up from a rave because he'd done too much K to get behind the wheel.
"I can live without work, but I'm sorry for my customers," he said on Tuesday as he shouted, "Arriba" to the next customer and motioned for him to sit in his barber chair.
To keep track of what's going on inside his meats, McHale uses a horse bone, which a customer picked up for him recently in Italy.
Ghulam Dastgir sews wedding dresses in his tiny shop in the heart of the quarter, stitching pearls to satin just as he did in Kabul until the Taliban beat his customers for irreverent indulgence and closed him down six years ago.
His customers praise him for being thorough.
His customers loved him for it, but he was a dictator nonetheless.
