Grocery stores are filled with magic. There is a magic little man that goes around spreading joy to shoppers by filling the shelves with Marshmallow Lover’s Hot Chocolate and Lucky Charms. It is as if every aisle brings a new discovery and all sorts of possibilities, and the whole experience is peaceful and wonderful. The grocery store is the perfect place to wander around and just think about life while mindlessly filling the shopping cart. Of course everything changes the moment you get a job as a cashier at Rainbow Foods.

- Mean people (Seriously, stop shopping. Hire someone to do your shopping for you, take an acting class so you can at least pretend to be nice, or take the advice given to five-year-olds: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I mean it, stop being mean to your cahsiers.)
- People that are obsessive about their coupons (You would be surprised how many people have coupon books).
- People that have five transactions and hold the line up
- People with five transactions and a million coupons so that they get $100 worth of stuff for less than $15
- The lady that only buys a bag of potatoes and then causes other people to leave the line because we have been waiting for a price check for so long
- The guys that smell
- People with dirty hands
- People that watch the screen and freak out when the price doesn’t come down right away (I can’t tell you how many times I have said, “The price for the [insert their food item here] will come down at the end of the transaction”).
But there are also people that I like:
- The couple that offered to pay for a woman’s groceries because she left her wallet at home (It was the sweetest thing I have ever seen at Rainbow).
- Young guys (It is less creepy if they think you’re cute, and they are fun to talk to)
- People that start conversation with me
- The woman that said it was nice to meet me after our conversation tonight
- The people that tell me what a good job I am doing
- The old man that thanked me for working on the 4th of July
- My coworkers (They are some of my favorite people in the world)
- The couple that told me I look like a movie star today (The wife said I look like Natalie Portman, and the husband said I look like Mayim Bialik from the Big Bang Theory).
- One of the guys in my grade that thanked me for “Checking him out” via Facebook and had to clarify “Checking my groceries out of course.”
ahhhhhhh CUTE! This post made my day! I love how the couple paid for the woman's groceries, that is so sweet. As for the “checking him out,” that's funny 🙂
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