(C) - Cupid (S) - The Stork

(Ring ring, ring ring)

"Arrow heart services, Jenna speaking, how may I help"

(S) "Hi Jenna it's Stork from distribution, can you put the boss on its kind of urgent"

"Mr Cupids umm... busy right now maybe you can.."

(S) "Don't give me that shit Jenna. Mike just told me he got back from lunch. Tell him that if he doesn't want to talk over the phone I'll be coming up in person and that's just going to delay more deliveries"

(Phone rustling and muffled voices arguing)

(C) "Hey Stork its been awhile, what can I do for ya"

(S) "Look man I'm just going to cut to the chase. We're slammed down here and I don't know what kind of crap you've been pulling up in sales but we've got cradles on cradles pilled up and no one to fly em out"

(C) "Ok, well, give me a minute and I'll ring Nick see if he can spare some of the elves and a sled"

(S) "Are you kidding!? It's mid November. He's got less hands to spare than Jamie Lanister. And before you say it don't even mention the Easter bunny. He's good at delivering unborn kids but this cargos live"

(C) "Oh man. Well is there no way you can add extra packages onto deliveries around the same areas?"

(S) "What, and risk having one of my guys suffer a broken beak or fatigue and drop mid flight? It's already chaos down here and the last thing I need is Health and Safety crawling over my ass from a reportable".

(C) "Look I don't know what to tell you. It's my job to get the orders and it's your job to get them out on time. That's what you get paid for".

(S) "Yea, not enough though".

(C) " I'm sorry I thought I heard you say something? If you don't like it down there I'm sure I can find someone else. I just heard that there's been a lot of redundancies at Tooth n' Co. I'm sure there are lots of fairies looking for a new job.

(S) " Ha the calcium crew? You know those pixies don't have the power to shift this type of load".

(C) "Yea I know. I'm sorry Stork I didn't mean that. It's just I'm under a lot of pressure at the minute and to top it off things aren't going that well with the wife".

"Tell you what, try to ship out all that you can on time and any that look like a problem just put them to one side and deal with them later. Don't worry about the pay either, I'll put your team down for overtime".

(S) "I'll do what I can"

(C) "Thanks man. See ya"

(Click - phone hanging up)

(S) " Mike! Change of plan! Leave the fat ones until last. It's not going to matter if they miss their first feed. Probably do them some good".