Thank You For Getting In Line Behind Me, So You, Too, Can Wait

The store manager led their young protege through her first foray at ringing up items, 12 or less, please.

Stacey Curran
The Belladonna Comedy
5 min readOct 7, 2021

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Photo by Marjan Blan | @marjanblan on Unsplash

The sign said 12 items or less, and the line seemed a logical place to queue for quick passage. Ah, how naive we were.

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Former journalist; few N.E. Press Assoc. Awards, few Boston Globe Magazine essays, @TheBelladonnaComedy @Slackjaw @BostonAccent, @WBUR, grocery lists.