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Life in the Checkout Lane

by Nouvelle Bardot

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All I can do now, as I stand in one place, looking up at the flourescent lights from where my supervisor keeps me rooted, is stare at the clock. It’s ticking intimidates me. It reminds me I’ve only been here twenty minutes, and eleven seconds.

Tick, tick, tick, tick…

What happened to my sense of time?

Randall, my supervisor, glares at me from behind his clipboard, pointing to his shirt pocket. I look down at my red apron and silently groan as I pull out a happy yellow name badge and pin it on, poking my skin underneath my shirt in the process.

The name badge happily reads: Hello! My name is Maggie!

I go back to staring at the clock.

An eldery woman comes through my line with a cart filled to the brim.

This is the express line, I tell her.

She ignores me. Quickly, a line of impatient people grows behind her. She asks for various price checks.

Rick, price check on aisle two please, I say in an annoyed tone into the intercom.

Apparently the box boy is sick today.

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Comments

Average Reader Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

  1. Life in the Checkout Lane

    Laine the Grey's Buddy Icon Laine the Grey

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Brilliant title.

  2. Life in the Checkout Lane

    Alexa ♥'s Buddy Icon Alexa ♥

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Hits a little too close to home, except I’m not at a grocery store.

  3. Life in the Checkout Lane

    SocccerISmyLIFE's Buddy Icon SocccerISmyLIFE

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    That was kinda cool. I like the title. Is the bag boy gonna become like a really important person? You should right a sequel.

  4. Life in the Checkout Lane

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted about 1 year ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Hmm, why do we miss the box boy? Does she love him? Hee hee, nice little slice of real life here.

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