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Coupons: A Short Story

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*Beep**Beep* “Is that all for you today ma’am,” she says in a very rehearsed and monotone voice. The woman says, “Yes I have coupons.” She pulls out a black binder marked “Coupon Saver” and box that makes loud noises of an abundance of pennies, nickels, and dimes hitting each other. The cashier's face now resembles a stale face emoji. As the woman begins to pull the coupons from her black binders and clear pockets attached into the silver hooks. She looks past at her green apron with the grocery stores huge logo to view the time on her iPhone. She lets out a loud sigh as she notices that she should have gone on break fifteen minutes ago. The Manager walks by and looks at the cashier and winks at her with his clipboard and pen in hand. As the …show more content…

As she grabs it to put on the scale the clear plastic bag breaks open and the apples spill everywhere and a few apples break open and juices spray from the Granny Smith Apple on to the hard and unpolished tile. The customer that was complaining before is back and behind the register trying to get the cashier's attention and slips on the apples. They begin to moan and groan on the floor and the cashier looks at them and pulls out a bright orange “Caution” sign. As she is still staring at the fallen woman on the tile floor she picks up the phone, “Manager assistance on register four please manager assistance.” she hangs up the phone and tries to pick up the apples around the woman. A manager walks over in black slacks and shoes, white button up, and red tie with zero personality squeaking towards the scene. “What happened?” “She fell.” “You didn’t feel it necessary to say that earlier.” “She just fell I picked up the apples so no one else can fall.” ” Unbelievable…. Ma’am I’m going to call some help…Diane in my office

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