Zoë looks untidily sultry and hands me some pink and white flowers - pleased and aghast I've come so far to see her (the flowers never get water, they will lie in my hotel room like strange customers).
In 1985 Menke edited – and sound- edited – a 10-minute black-and-white short by fellow Tisch alumnus Dean Parisot: in Tom Goes to the Bar an opinion pollster contemplates his life while hanging, batlike, from the ceiling of a bar filled with strange customers.
There's a wonderful, powerful art at work here, where the main character of an (albeit indie-aesthetic) comic is transgender, and it focuses on his life in all its facets, from adolescent confusion, to coming out, to strange customers at the grocery store where he works, to being afraid to make phone calls.
That seems strange," a customer said.
Keeping the business in a single country may seem strange when its customer base is global, but Grana explained it is all about efficiency everyone involved.
The days of "elephant hunting" are quickly disappearing (it always seemed strange to associate customer relationships with killing large and mostly-friendly mammals, but what do I know?).
For a start, price matching own branded goods has gone, which is strange when the customers who are probably most likely to use the vouchers of the past are the ones buying cheaper own-brand products rather than pricier branded goods; counting the pennies and keen for any saving they can get.
And once the yarn starts spinning, it is absurdly easy to buy into the crazy scenario, to get all caught up in the experiences of a guy named Alex More and his days dusting the merchandise in this strange world, waiting for a customer -- The Customer. .
It wasn't unusual for a customer to be impolite, but it did seem strange that they were so obviously freaked out by my presence.
