Marie Alden

Tami_s pleasure

Chapter 1

Tami quickly adjusted the front of her red tunic as she hurried to the Express Check Out. Roberta was there, ready to go home, but she couldn't leave until Tami took over the cash register.

"Hi, Bert, sorry I'm late," apologized Tami. Roberta had just finished dusting the counter.

"That's O.K., Tami. See you tomorrow. Oh, and you'd better watch out, Bloom's on the rampage!"

Tami soon learned the truth of these words. Mr. Bloom, the supermarket manager, angrily poked his head out of the manager's booth nearby.

"Look lady-I know prices are high. I have to pay just as much as you do for everything. If you wanna do something, then write a letter to the President or something, will ya? Christ!!!!"

He ducked back into the little manager's booth, still muttering to himself.

An irate customer stalked away to find her overloaded shopping cart. In the meantime, the woman's two kids had dug to the bottom of a pile of groceries, spilling things left and right, while trying to find a box of cookies.

They had almost finished a box of chocolate chips when their mother returned. Her annoyance doubled-she slapped the boy and girl and disappeared down an aisle, wheeling the heavily-laden cart.

Tami had been watching this little episode. She was surprised that Mr. Bloom had been so rude to a customer. It hurt business. Something must be bothering him, she thought.

And the poor woman with all those groceries and two screaming kids. She could still hear them all the way down aisle three.