Parental Advisory
September 27th,
“Two thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven dollars! That’s the wholesale cost!” I yell at Houston as he packs up one of our witch client’s orders.
“Er, sorry?”
“Your mother is trying to bankrupt me!”
“Did you get quotes from some of the other vendors?”
“That is the best quote from the vendors. And that is spreading the order out over three different vendors because half of these things are special orders.” I throw the paper on my desk. “There is a two week lead time on petrified Persian griffin eggs! Two weeks! She can’t use the Greek griffin eggs that I keep on stock. Nooooooooo. She needs the Persian ones.”
“I don’t know what to tell you, Nancy.”
“And the worst part is because of U.S. sanctions in most of the Middle East, I have to have the maj
