props to the irishman who came into my store last night and was really rather irritated that we didn't have any muffins left. i told him that we get rid of morning pastries at approximately 2 pm. he scolded me for a full five minutes, first trying to convince me that we really do sell lemon-poppyseed muffins (which we don't-- and haven't-- for quite some time) and THEN claiming that we are the only store that dares to remove the muffins that early in the day. it was like he thought that we were hiding muffins from him, or that by pestering me about it, the muffins would somehow materialize in the pastry case.

i thought perhaps i could solve the problem by taking a piece of our pumpkin, marble, or lemon loaf and scrunching it into a ball so that it looked like a muffin, because, let's face it, most muffins have the consistency of a loaf cake, embodied in a different shape. i decided not to do this because really i didn't want to solve the problem-- it's really quite entertaining to hear a man complain about muffins with an irish brogue.