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Danascot

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3. The person just in front of you in the check out line:
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:15 PM
Thursday

Everything is rung up and bagged and the cashier announces the amount due. There's a look on their face as if they're speaking Greek and it's a huge surprise that they're expected to pay. After they get over their shock, they fish around for their wallet and proceed to look at each bill trying to come up with the exact dollars. Then they pull out a coin purse and fish around in that for a while trying to come up with the exact change. Then they remember they have a coupon organizer, pull that out and examine each coupon, coming up with a 1/4" stack of coupons that might work. When the cashier runs the coupons, some do not match anything they bought and the customer needs to argue about each item. Three or four coupons are good but the rest expired during the Nixon era.

I don't know what happens next because I've long since run screaming from the store because I've seen this performance before and I know where it's headed.



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