I went to the supermarket this morning with a guide. My guide helps me do my shopping, taking me around the aisles and looking for the items that I request.
I wanted to buy some dried apricots, which I had bought before. But this time my guide couldn’t find them in the dried fruits section.
She turned round and said, “Hold on. I’ll ask someone about the apricots.”
I heard her asking someone behind me, and a young man answering.
“I think they should be on this shelf here, if they are here at all,” he said. “Let me see… There are prunes, cherries, raisins. But I don’t see any apricots.”
My guide got a little impatient with the young man. “Well, do you have the apricots or don’t you? Have they been moved to another shelf?”
The young man got a bit flustered at the criticism and then said, “You know, I don’t actually work here. I’m just a customer.”
It was quite embarrassing. We had been pestering the man and getting him to search the shelves, somehow assuming that he was a staff member.
I never did
find those dried apricots. I will have
to make do with prunes instead.
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