wednesday may 27

today i went to bulk barn to pick up a curbside order my girlfriend had placed. when i arrived, one of the employees found the bag with all our stuff in it, dumped it out on the counter, then rang through the items one at a time.

when she eventually announced the price and asked for payment, there was still a small bag of sugar sitting on the counter, right next to where everything else had been piled. not being familiar with every item in our order and assuming that the cashier wouldn't have intentionally left that sugar there if it was part of it, i tapped my card and prepared to leave. but before i did, just to confirm, i gestured toward the sugar and asked, "was that... separate?" she looked at it and replied, "oh god, i didn't even see it there."

after paying for the sugar separately and leaving, i was little embarrassed for both of us -- her for somehow not seeing it and me for not assuming it was part of my order and saying something before paying for the rest. i mean, it's not like it had flown several feet away when she first dumped out the bag. it was literally touching everything else.