How about this dialog, which I had with a woman at the counter of a mall 1-hour store in 1990:
ME: Do you sell Kodak EktaPress 1600? SHE: No, sir, Kodak doesn't make EktaPress in 1600. Just 100 and 400. ME: Oh, they do. It's been my standard film for at least a year or two. SHE: No, sir, you're mistaken. Later, I wished I had said, "Then if I can produce a box of it for you here within a couple days, will you pay me a hundred dollars?" But that was nothing compared to a telephone dialog I had in late 1991 or early '92 with a salesman at Penn Camera: ME: Hi, do you have any used Olympus OM-4Ti's? HE: No, sir, but you must remember, that camera just came out. There won't be many used ones out there yet. ME: No, the OM-4Ti came out in 1986. HE: Sir, it just came out, but if you want to believe it came out in 1986, it came out in 1986. ME: EXCUSE ME. I'M SITTING HERE WITH A FOLDER OF COVER STORIES FROM POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY, PETERSON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC, AND SHUTTERBUG, ALL DATED 1986 OR EARLY 1987. EACH HAS A TITLE LIKE, "INTRODUCING THE OM-4Ti" OR "THE TOP OF MOUNT OLYMPUS." DON'T TELL ME IT JUST CAME OUT! HE: OH. SORRY. Paul Franklin Stregevsky - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
