When I'm not getting married or acting on some other ridiculous fucking whim or fancy in Bali, I've stayed at the same place on and off for years as it's a bit away from the tourist ghetto of Kuta/Legian/Seminyak but only 15 minutes ride if I need to "get off the leash". There's only one place close by that sells cheap grog, otherwise it's a scooter ride in shit traffic toward the mess that is Kuta, or pay more than double the already overpriced amount at a "Hollywood" hotel about a kilometre away. I like to sit at a table of an afternoon out the front of said shop that sells reasonably priced beer and watch the madness.
I drink Bintang, I like it! Bintang have recently brought out some cherry fucking lime pissy fizzy beer they're trying to push and now the shop where I prop has only one row in the fridge for standard or regular Bintang, and as not a fucking soul wants to drink cherry lime pissy fizzy beer, the regular Bintang row is always hot as it's just been replaced, or the row is empty as there's now not enough shelf space for demand.
As I'm known at the shop, I asked the manager if he could remove a few cherry lime pissy fizzy beers from the back of their allocated row and surreptitiously place a few regular Bintang behind so as to maintain presentation and promotion, but also cater to demand. Nope, not a fucking chance. No reason was given other than, "Sorry, cannot."
The cherry lime pissy fizzy beer that doesn't sell at all has 6 or 7 places allocated to it in each row (there are three rows of different flavors), and 6 or 7 cherry lime pissy fizzy beers will indeed fill each allocated position at all cost, even though it is indeed costing the store money by forcing people like myself to buy elsewhere.
I feel like some autistic person whose routine has been irrevocably tampered with.
End of rant.
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Londo wrote: I feel like some autistic person whose routine has been irrevocably tampered with.
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