At 14, during a Christmas break, he was hired by a garden supply store for a stockroom job.
A small second floor serves as an office for kahane.org and as the stockroom for the merchandise for sale online.
"If you'll wait a few minutes, Madam," the salesgirl said, "I will send to the stockroom for some other expressions".
"I love the idea of a true honky-tonk, a true neighborhood bar," he said the other day, dressed all in black and sitting in a cluttered office that doubles as a stockroom for bourbon and whiskey.
But really, it looks like this most of the time, because the dining room doubles as the stockroom for Enitan Vintage, Akinnagbe's three-year-old furniture business, in which he restores baroque settees and wingbacks of Western provenance, then re-dresses them primarily using West African Dutch wax fabrics.
The stockroom for the gift shop was next to the morgue, so the smell of formaldehyde lingers in his memories of Duke's campus.
Then disappear into the stockroom for 20 minutes before returning and saying, "I'm sorry but it's not store policy to get funked up on tunes with steady hooks and repetitive robotic vocals, but if you'd like me to check in one of our other shops... ........ Workplace dancing and singing of all kinds should be avoided.
There have been times in my life when my refrigerator looked like the stockroom for a crazy person's space diet.
Anyway, what I mean when I say, "Sorry, we're out of that one in a 12" is that I really can't be arsed to go and check the stockroom for your size in that absolutely hideous shirt.
But far from being a giant stockroom for Iran's booming toaster and alarm clock industries, when the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived to inspect it, they realised the ticking they could hear was the doomsday clock.
