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... and I'm asked to warp space and time to accommodate a SC...
Phone call from one of our customers: We need 200.000 (not a typo!) silicone cockrings in <specific blue> colour, packed by 2 in special <specific blue> colour packaging with golden relief printing.
Me: $-) Why don't you come in the next days, I'll have calculated production time and prices, and we can discuss it.
He a agreed to come in next morning. In between I discussed it with the production guys, to come up with a quotation and a time frame. Our production is in China, so we'd need at least 4 weeks, if the rings are shipped by plane and at least 2.5 months if shipped by container.
Fast forward to next morning.
Customer has brought a printout of the packaging design (quite pretty actually), that alone will be expensive. And since the colour of the cockrings needs to be matched as well, not cheap either. He seemed to be willing to accept these costs, though. And then I asked the fatal question:
When do you need those rings?
His answer: Sept. 1st
Me:
That's less than 2 weeks!
He: Yeah, so?
I tried in vain to explain why we needed the time. (All the production and printing and packaging and not mention chinese customs, they can be slow as molasses at times.)
His reply: But I need them Sept. 1st
Me: <explain some more>
He: But I need them Sept. 1st
*rinse* *lather* *repeat*
Until I had enough: It Can Not Be Done!
He: But I need them!
In the end I had to tell him to leave, since we couldn't help him. GAH!
Oh, yeah, he did use the line: I'll never order from you again!
On the plus side... Now I got an idea for a new pretty blue and golden product line.
Phone call from one of our customers: We need 200.000 (not a typo!) silicone cockrings in <specific blue> colour, packed by 2 in special <specific blue> colour packaging with golden relief printing.
Me: $-) Why don't you come in the next days, I'll have calculated production time and prices, and we can discuss it.
He a agreed to come in next morning. In between I discussed it with the production guys, to come up with a quotation and a time frame. Our production is in China, so we'd need at least 4 weeks, if the rings are shipped by plane and at least 2.5 months if shipped by container.
Fast forward to next morning.
Customer has brought a printout of the packaging design (quite pretty actually), that alone will be expensive. And since the colour of the cockrings needs to be matched as well, not cheap either. He seemed to be willing to accept these costs, though. And then I asked the fatal question:
When do you need those rings?
His answer: Sept. 1st
Me:
That's less than 2 weeks!He: Yeah, so?
I tried in vain to explain why we needed the time. (All the production and printing and packaging and not mention chinese customs, they can be slow as molasses at times.)
His reply: But I need them Sept. 1st
Me: <explain some more>
He: But I need them Sept. 1st
*rinse* *lather* *repeat*
Until I had enough: It Can Not Be Done!
He: But I need them!
In the end I had to tell him to leave, since we couldn't help him. GAH!
Oh, yeah, he did use the line: I'll never order from you again!
On the plus side... Now I got an idea for a new pretty blue and golden product line.
I takes new employees about a week to get used to it. 
I'm trying to think of a situation that required 200K cock rings outside of supplying an online store, and I'm coming up snake-eyes.
He is my Black Dragon (and yes, a good one) strong, protective, the guardian. I am his Silver Dragon, always by his side, shining for him, cherishing him.
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