Here is a little different spin......Assume you are the
store owner and not one of the two store clerks. Do you
seriously want two employees wasting time in a pissin’
contest over 20 cents worth of water? What about sweeping
floors, dusting bottles, stocking the walk-in, or watching
for other customers ripping-off the store? What if a customer should be walking in with the intent to purchase
a lucrative order? I’d bet the employees cost the boss a
damned bit more than 20 cents for that dog and pony show.
Give the woman the water. She earned it and was funny
to boot.
The clerks were the owners.