I tried to get a smart car but they sold out too fast.

setup: I tried to get a smart car but they sold out too fast.

[Sales Manager] qua headset, name tag, pen in hand, twenty years on the floor Mr. Berger. The Smart inventory is sold out for the quarter.

[BILL] qua sweater, anxious, four-day-old haircut I — I called yesterday.

[Sales Manager] Yesterday at three forty-two, you called. Three forty-three, the inventory was gone.

[BILL] That’s one minute.

[Sales Manager] It was a very fast minute.

[Shakes] qua finance assistant, beaming This is the best of all possible dealerships.

[BILL] Can I — can I get on the waitlist?

[Sales Manager] The waitlist is also sold out.

[BILL] You can sell out of a waitlist?

[Sales Manager] We can sell out of anything. It is the business.

[BILL] What’s left.

[Sales Manager] ((CLICKING)) We have a Smart Car Pre-Order Waitlist Pre-Application.

[BILL] What does that get me.

[Sales Manager] The right to enter the lottery.

[BILL] For the waitlist.

[Sales Manager] For the pre-order.

[BILL] I’m not following.

[Sales Manager] That’s part of the qualifying criteria.

[Manyfeek] qua showroom Smart Car taped off with a velvet rope and a “DEMO ONLY” sign ((FROM ITS CORNER)) I have been a demo for six years. Nobody has ever sat in me. I cost more than my own retail.

[BILL] I just want to drive one.

[Sales Manager] We have a test drive available.

[BILL] Great.

[Sales Manager] In a Hyundai.

[BILL] Why a Hyundai.

[Sales Manager] We’re out of Smart Cars.

[BILL] ((SLOW)) I… think I see the issue.

[Sales Manager] That’s what makes you a candidate.

punchline: I guess I’m just a bit slow.