Yesterday I went to the supermarket to buy something for lunch. I admit, I wasn't looking my best. Although it was a work day I work in a pretty casual environment so I wear jeans most of the time. I was wearing them yesterday, and my top was clean but maybe a bit slobby. My hair was scraped back and I admit my grey regrowth should have been dealt with about two weeks ago. Still, I was feeling okay... until I got to the checkout, where the girl serving me greeted me cheerily with, "Hi, how are you today? You look dead!" Not "you look dead tired", just "you look dead".
I was a little taken aback but was prepared to believe I might have misheard her. I said, "I beg your pardon?" She repeated it more loudly, "You look dead!" I said, "Oh." At this point she may have realised she wasn't winning any points with me so she asked, "Umm.. have you had a busy day?" I could have put her out of her misery but I was a tad snippy by then, so I stared her down and said, "No, not particularly."
Strangely, the conversation ceased at that point...
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I was a little taken aback but was prepared to believe I might have misheard her. I said, "I beg your pardon?" She repeated it more loudly, "You look dead!" I said, "Oh." At this point she may have realised she wasn't winning any points with me so she asked, "Umm.. have you had a busy day?" I could have put her out of her misery but I was a tad snippy by then, so I stared her down and said, "No, not particularly."
Strangely, the conversation ceased at that point...
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2 comments:
Yeah, way to win friends and influence people!
Then again, maybe she's a ghost whisperer and you did, in fact, look dead to her.
Yeah, you gotta kill those conversations. That's not a great thing to say. Well done. Unless she is of course a ghost whisperer.
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