DISH-PATCH (049b): Kimba Hears a DING!! ...

A SCALE. ENVELOPES. MAGNETS. + Pen & Paper…

And so it was that a short while later (talking days not weeks), HAPPY BARISTA/UBER DRIVER KIMBA awoke with a burst of energy and raced to the kitchen. The vision…? The feeling…? Unshakeable, for sure. She just HAD to know…

Let’s follow along to find out WHAT. HAPPENS. NEXT… —The Gang

FADE IN:

INT. KIMBA KITCHEN

On the kitchen counter is a scale along with a few #10 white business-sized envelopes and a stack of the various STICKERMULE magnets she created.

Kimba’s Box-O-Magnets…

KIMBA
Could it be…?

Pulling out her phone, she types in the weight of the envelope and let’s it do the gram-to-ounce conversion. Then she loads the US Post Office website and does enters some numbers.

Pricing. Reasonable…

KIMBA
That’s it? Two FOREVERs = close to 80grams which is totally do-able. I’ll play with the mix, but this… might. could. work…

Stamp math…

Might. Could. Work…

KIMBA
Super-stoked too because I now that I have fast-lane, Post Office drop-off figured out.

Kimba scribbles into her notebook and takes a series of pictures.

Acrylic example…

A six-pack… !

Another six-pack…

Woo Hoo !! Solved for distribution…!

KIMBA
During my research I kept seeing websites with like $5 or $7.95 As the lowest number for shipping. Who wants to pay that for a PIN or MAGNET??

Solve for postage…

A couple of FOREVER STAMPS? Heck we can absorb that in pricing and make it perceived as FREE.

She looks at the clock.

KIMBA
Whoops! Time flies, right?

Pointing to the scale and the box with magnets, she shifts her voice…

KIMBA
I’ll be b-a-c-k…

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. MEREDITH’S KITCHEN
Happy Puppy KEE-RA’s human, MEREDITH is preparing him his morning snack, but pauses as a series of text messages flow in.

KEE-RA
It’s early Mama… too early. They need to leave you…

Glancing at the phone, she smiles.

MEREDITH
We need to look at these, buddy.

She holds up the phone and Kee-Ra studies the screen.

KEE-RA
Oh… It’s that KIMBA lady… the one you’ve been … SHOP-e-Flying?

Meredith laughs.

SHOP-e-Flying… says Kee-Ra

MEREDITH
Yeah buddy… SHOP-I-FY… Building a SHOPIFY online store for MERCH…

Excited for sure…!

KEE-RA
Gotcha… So solved something she did?

MEREDITH
One sales prevention slash barrier… Cost of and logistics for shipping magnets and stickers.

Holding up the phone, Kee-Ra sees the words: TAKES. JUST. TWO.

KEE-RA
Two?

MEREDITH
Stamps. That’s amazing and check this out. If you leverage COSTCO, stamps are even cheaper — envelopes in bulk… this is viable.

Forever is our Friend…

KEE-RA
Ah! That’s cool, Mama.

Dancing some more and then he nudges her.

KEE-RA
We… We should tell trail pal Katie… She was solving for this… distribution and her head was like going down the route of KIMBA doing TRUNK POP-UP Shop… cash like farmer’s market with the food truck meetup…

MEREDITH
Huh?

KEE-RA
Right? Rather complicated and … I just let her talk… Let me… yeah… I recall… Something about a guy who drove to local track meets and sold running shoes to athletes our of his trunk… or something like that…

MEREDITH
Ah! The legend. Phil Knight. Founder of Nike… Still an option the POP-UP but I like having a standard CLICK-n-…

…Let’s say, the fewer clicks the better and the fewer steps to deliver… MORE BETTER!

The phone in her hand now makes a different sound.

KEE-RA
That’s the “GOTTA GO!!” sound Mama…

MEREDITH
Indeed it is. Day job is calling.

KEE-RA
Pick this up later, we will…

MEREDITH
Indeed we will.

FADE OUT.

That’s a Wrap… !

And that’s how KIMBA’s DING!! flowed through her kitchen and over-the-air (over-the-hill) to Kee-Ra and his human, Meredith adding an “air of excitement” to their day.

DING!Thing moment…

The DING!Thing / AHA!! provided an energetic start to Kimba’s day (a full schedule with C&C the lead and a busy evening of UBER driving)… And Meredith has some background tasking to do.

MEREDITH
Wait ’til Katie sees this!!

For sure, we are at the…