Discount supermarket oddities.
Jun. 15th, 2009 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckThe discount supermarket is always a great place to observe people.
There is that one guy who walks through the aisles methodically and when he spots an empty cardboard box he'll take it, rip it up and put it in one of the big wire crates left behind by the always busy staff. They just don't have the time to put away all the new stock, tidy up the displays and tend to the customers. ("Hey, will you open another cash register for us?") So he helps out, without making a fuss and oblivious to the other customers' stares.
Today, there is the usual assortment of mothers with prams, young couples, single men with hygiene issues and children of all ages. One teenage girl sticks out though - she's wearing a football kit and at a first glance the white and red flag seems to be the only thing out of the ordinary about it, until I realize that she has painstakingly hand-crafted a replica of a Wayne Rooney shirt with felt-tip pens. I checked, he's number 9 alright.
Come back tomorrow for gems of neighbourly wisdom about star signs and old wives' tales about how to tell the gender of babies in the womb.
There is that one guy who walks through the aisles methodically and when he spots an empty cardboard box he'll take it, rip it up and put it in one of the big wire crates left behind by the always busy staff. They just don't have the time to put away all the new stock, tidy up the displays and tend to the customers. ("Hey, will you open another cash register for us?") So he helps out, without making a fuss and oblivious to the other customers' stares.
Today, there is the usual assortment of mothers with prams, young couples, single men with hygiene issues and children of all ages. One teenage girl sticks out though - she's wearing a football kit and at a first glance the white and red flag seems to be the only thing out of the ordinary about it, until I realize that she has painstakingly hand-crafted a replica of a Wayne Rooney shirt with felt-tip pens. I checked, he's number 9 alright.
Come back tomorrow for gems of neighbourly wisdom about star signs and old wives' tales about how to tell the gender of babies in the womb.
