What started as a way to pay your way through college might have turned into a dead end, that's the feeling one gets from reading Kiss and till: What the checkout girl saw (The Independent, July 13).
I learned from this bittersweet piece that the top three questions asked at the till (the cash register here in the US) are:
Don't you have any bags?
Are you open?"
As for the answers, here is a sample of possibilities offered in the piece:
Polite checkout girl: "I'm not but my till is."
Sarcastic checkout girl: "Beeeeeep!"
Or if the Customer is good-looking: "Try me and see."
Checkout girl with her best smile: "Are you?"
The Independent piece found its inspiration in Checkout – A Life on the Tills (Gallic Books) by French caissiere Anna Sam (to be published in the UK on July 31).
I will let you read the rest of Kiss and Till for more insight on the life of a Checkout Girl or Guy
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