A/N: I work at CVS and this is an accurate retelling of the first time I had to answer the phone
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The phone rang out like a gunshot crackling through the silence.
"Good afternoon! Thank you for calling the Inoue Convenience Store! This is Yolei! How may I help you?"
She rehearsed the greeting in her head as she took a deep breath. She could get through this.
The phone rang again like thunder overpowering the whistling wind in a storm.
"Good afternoon! …It's eleven. Is it still morning? It feels like the afternoon, but technically it's before noon." She sighed and scanned the store praying that another member of her family was near enough to answer it. They weren't.
The phone rang a third time like something overly dramatic that isn't a proper simile for a phone ringing.
She picked up the phone, mustered up all her courage, took a deep breath and out came her greeting:
"...Hi?"
She smacked her forehead causing her to nearly drop the phone. She fumbled for it then sputtered out the rest of the required greeting.
"Good, uh, before-noon. Thanks for calling.… This is the Inoue Convenience Store…. I'm Yolei… Inoue. Can I help you?"
"Yeah, so," said the gruff voice on the line, "do you sell marshmallows?"
"…What."
"Marsh. Mall. Ows. I'm gonna make smores."
There was something ridiculous about the whole weight of answering the phone being boiled down to a man asking for marshmallows.
"Oh, alright." She laughed nervously. For someone so loud and forceful, it was surprising that talking on the phone was what made Yolei lose her cool.
"Do you sell them?"
"…Yes." In actuality, Yolei hadn't the slightest clue if they sold marshmallows.
"Great, thanks. I'll swing by now and pick some up." The man sounded chipper which only caused Yolei's nerves to rise.
"Great, thank you, goodbye," she squeaked then promptly hung up and went sprinting to the sweets aisle to see if they sold marshmallows.
A/N: I'll admit that I've never greeted anyone with "Good before-noon" but the rest is accurate. Thanks a ton to those who reviewed the last chapter :) It really does motivate me to keep posting! Feel free to review and/or offer a suggestion for another drabble!