At my local supermarket, there’s a checkout operator who’s a little out of the ordinary, though in the best possible way. Whenever I get in his queue, he lifts my spirits and not with the usual nonsense you get at checkouts, like, “How’s your day so far?” when it’s only ten past nine in the morning.
No, this young guy’s something special – enthusiastically into his job and often enthusiastically into you too, and, as I say, in the best possible way. Though sometimes, what he says is a little surprising.
Just the other day, I was at the supermarket getting my bread and beer, gazing off into the middle distance, when my register friend suddenly enquired of his workmate, the chap packing my bags, “Do you have a teddy…
