I just went to the grocery store (Wahoo! I’m alive!!) because we need bagels, tea, chicken broth and eggs (I make homemade egg drop soup now- so proud) . But naturally, I bought a ton of stuff just in case there’s a quarantine. I’ll have enough pickles to get me through. Typically, I’d go to a cashier that i know because I’m the kind of girl that likes to bond with my cashier but there was one -new never saw her before -cashier with a much shorter line so I took a gamble. (You see where this is going, right?) As she is scanning my bounty I make a joke about people hoarding food and she says “I’m not worried about coronavirus. It ain’t here in Connecticut. The government will take care of us” and immediately I understand she might be mildly impaired. So I try to joke to joke it off but we go back and forth a couple of times where she tries to explain to me that the government has us covered no matter who the president is and then she continues with “I’ll tell you what I am worried about right now. It’s that stomach virus going around” and I tell her I was in the house for 4 days because of it and quite sick. By now she’s basically done scanning my food and she says “Yeah, I’ve been in and out of the bathroom all day, it’s bad.” The panic rises in my throat. I tell her not to touch my bags (I’ve been packing my food this entire time and she is trying to put my bags in the cart) and she gets offended. I look up and the people on line and around us are all in shock and staring wide eyed. No one can believe what they’ve heard. SHE TOUCHED EVERY SINGLE ITEM I JUST PURCHASED. I dont even know what to do with the three bags of groceries right now.
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