Greg: Thanks for coming. I know it must be difficult to take time away from your business.
Shoemaker: Ah business schmizeness. I could take a month off and it wouldn't matter a bit.
Greg: So, business is bad?
Shoemaker: Bad. Bad? Business is terrible. I haven't had one customer come in my shop in a week. They all go to the mall. Hey, how do you expect me to compete with Payless? Quality, no one cares about quality anymore. I tell you, it's almost enough to make me give up cobbling altogether.
Greg: That's too bad. No one comes in to have their shoes repaired or anything?
Shoemaker: Repaired? Hah! No one bothers. Why fix 'em when you can get new ones for $19.99? I'll tell you something, though. It wasn't always like this. Back in the old days, quality meant something. There was a time when my shoes were famous throughout the kingdom. People were falling over themselves to buy a pair of my shoes. The king himself was a regular customer.
Greg: Really? What happened?
