- Can I help you with something?
- You sure can...Angineh.
- You can just call me Angie.
- Oh, you too, huh?  Im thinking of something for the kitchen--it's a gift.
- Is it for a man or a woman?
- A woman.  My wife.  It's her birthday.  I was thinking of some new pots and pans so she can cook good meals for my mother; plus I don't want to spend that much on a new laundry machine.
- Oh. 
- Do you think that's a bit crude?
- Well, we have other gifts for the kitchen.  
- Yea, I saw a bronze salad bowl.  We can pack a lot of pork-chops in there.
- How about a nice dining set?  
- How bout those espresso cups over there? We're gonna want her to make some coffee after the laundry.
- This set is very cute.
- Shat cute.
- See, each cup has its own spoon and a small plate under it so you can put a--
- A tea biscuit?  A madeleine?  Yea, yea, I get it.  Although,  it's very white.  And from an aesthetic point, Angineh, it's bland, a bit alani, you know?
- Oh.
- Now, the colors and the circular shapes on the box, I like.  Can't you guys like sirun dzevov design anek?  Like some light blue swirls or circles over other circles in another shade of blue, like bubbles in the water?
- We can't paint over porcelain.
- You don't say.
- But this item is very popular.
- I agree; it is quite elegant.  But is it elegant enough?  And the answer is, yes.  I believe I'll take it.  Now, these macaroons on the box--
- They're not included.
- They never are.  I'll take it, regardless.  Way to earn your commission.
- I'm paid hourly.
- How apropos of the wet snow.
- What?
- Nothing.  How about giftwraping?
- We can gift wrap it, but with a service fee and also the price of the materials.
- The gift-wrap?
- Yes
- How apropos.
- Yes.
- What?
- Excuse me?
- So what is the cost?
- With that size of a box, it'll come to about $13.
- $13?  Maman explode! Is that the best you can do?
- Yes, that's the price.
- You don't have one of those coupon codes or an employee number you can punch in?  I mean, menk bolors hye enk.
- Sorry, it won't let me give any discounts.  
- Okay, when shall I return?
- It'll be ready in about 15 minutes.
- Let me just get a another glance at it, mehat make sure anem...okay, that's good.  It's the one.  I shall return, then.
- Great.



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