He thought a moment. “Yeah, we did. Quite a while ago. We don’t make them any more. In this business…”
“I need at least twenty-five hundred of them.”
”Twenty-five hundred bracelets?”
“No, just the zebras.”
“Look, is this a gag?”
“It’s no gag, mister,” I said. “I need those zebras. I’m willing to pay for them.”
“We haven’t any in stock.”
“Couldn’t you make them?”
“Not just twenty-five hundred of them. Wouldn’t be worth it to put through a special order for so few. If it was fifty thousand, say, we might consider it.”
“All right, then,” I said. “How much for fifty thousand?”