1) As I go to park my cart and head to grab a carton of eggs, a (small) (Chinese) grandmother darts around and I find myself sidestepping her.
"We are dancing," I try to joke as I smile at her, but she can't understand me.
As I look at eggs and she looks at eggs, she picks up a pricey carton of free range eggs and holds out to me and taps it.
"Ninety-nine," she was like, "Ninety-nine."
Though the listed price was like three-fifty, I think there was some sale or accidental markdown that she was trying to clue me in to, which I found just lovely, since she had to overcome communications barriers and she really didn't have to do that at all.
2) As I go into the checkout line, a (later middle-aged) (black) man is standing there, waiting there at the end past the register by the bagging area, and he catches my eye and nods at me edgily.
After a bit, the (older) (short) (white) supermarket manager comes up to check him out with his alcohol, and this change spread out below the register isn't enough, and the guy takes a ton of time to rustle around in his clothes and pull out two more dollars, this time in bills, and I notice that the McDonald's plastic cup in his hand jingles a bit from change sliding around in it.
"Next time, no sale," the older guy tells him. "You're drunk, those are the rules."
After he leaves, a (hispanic) bagboy is like, "I don't know why we even sell to him, we should just stop that," to which the (hispanic) (female) cashier in my line seemed agnostic.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
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