Check Out the Checkout

CHECK OUT THE CHECKOUT (Two checkout girls having a tete-a-tete as customers pass through with their groceries) Beep….That’s $35:67. Do you collect the elephant tokens? Cash or charge? So, Maria, I was with Ernie last night as I was sayin’ Beep…..Sorry you have to weigh the potatoes And he says to me c’mon lets go out someplace special Well I thinks ok now we’re talkin’ …maybe a disco or a night club No, not the red one, the big one with the elephant-photo And he says what about a bottle of beer and a burger and we’ll go back to your place and maybe….watch tv? Hmmm? Beep….The biscuits are on offer , this is El Cheapo Week, sir So I sez, what kind of a girl do you think I am?! Bottle of beer and “watch tv”!! Beep….Yes you can have it this week at half price , sir I sez, bottle of beer?! I want at least a bottle of wine(in a glass bottle) BEEP BEEP….Oh God, Jen, me machine’s on the blink Call the super will you?. . . while I hold this man’s sausage. . . before it gets cold. . . . yeah in a glass bottle , and some Chinese food as well, at a sit-down place, and not with paper plates either Oh God. . . I’ve just broken me nail on his big sausage…damn! Oh thanks Irene, the BEEPS are drivin’ me mad, it needs your key - You have a way with these machines hahaha (Same with the fellas I guess hahaha) Oh that’s it, great. . . . .beep….. So then he sez I can’t afford freakin’ Chinese and glass-bottle wine Yes - that’s all sir? Beep….$49:60 Do you collect the elephant tokens? Cash or charge? So I sez….beep….. well you’d better find the cash for Chinese or you won’t be watching MY tv very often Ernie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Written by Sydney Peck for FRANK H.'s Contest THE CONVERSATION