A modest proposal

By | April 1, 2025

So here’s my plan. I take some of my hypothetical millions and open a store selling the kinds of things that difficult “I-want-to-talk-to-the-manager” types go for. Could be crafts, could be food, could be baked goods. However, I build the store with a certain extra feature: a room off to the side of the checkouts with a buzzer that can be activated by pressing a button at the customer service desk.

This button would be labeled “GRAW!”

Whenever that button is pressed, the employee who sits inside that room watching TV or playing computer games immediately puts on the head and claws of the dinosaur costume that he/she is already wearing, and comes lurching through that door going “GRRRAAAAWWWW!” Since the employee will have no idea at that moment who’s being difficult, the person who pressed the button will have to point.

I’m thinking it might be nice to have a not-too-loud siren/ringing bells and red flashing lights go off at the same time, and maybe even a computerized voice that calls out “Warning: GRAW!”

We would have to be careful not to overuse GRAW and we’d definitely not want to utilize GRAW when someone is trying on purpose to be difficult in hopes of getting GRAW to come out.

Imagine it now:

Customer: ARGLEBARGLE ARGBLEBARGLE RAR RAR

Employee: Ma’am, that coupon is expired, it’s not for the product you’re buying, and it’s actually for our competitor across the parking lot.

Customer: ARGH! MANAGER! MANAGER! ENTITLEMENT!

Employee smacks the GRAW! button and steps back.

A siren goes off. Lights flash. A door flies open and out comes GRAW the dinosaur.

GRAW: “GRAW!”

Employee: You wanted to speak to our manager, ma’am?


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