the retail floor at 0300
a serious disadvantage to dealing Bing retail is the way customers’ll show up pounding on your door at 0300 sporting lint in the terms of resources and putting their arms around your shins and ankles and begging for just a half-gram or tenth of a gram and offering to give Lenz their kids
Context
The using economy from the seller's side, and the bottom it displays: customers arriving at three in the morning with nothing left to trade, wrapped around the dealer's ankles, begging for a tenth of a gram, offering their own children. Lenz files it as an occupational nuisance ("constant drags on his spirits"), which is its own portrait — the man who cannot see that the wretches at his door are the near neighbors of the man he is.