Matt White comes in for his shift nodding to Eien on his way
by "Hi Mrs. Chen"
Ushi Chen stares into Matt's head like she's drilling a hole
with her eyes "Ms....never been married. Good for nothing..." she
trails off and then barks "No more chit chat. Go fill the veggie cooler
Matt!"
Eien Fumetsu walks
into the supermarket. He had decided to give it a try. Knowing Matt from
earlier, Eien looks at the older woman. Must be Ms Chen by their conversation.
he moves to her and speaks in his always present Japanese accent. "I am
looking for proper vegetables for cooking." he announces, bowing to her in
greeting.
Matt nods and goes out back and comes back out with a cart
filled with various vegetables for restocking the vegetables stands , starts sorting through the vegetables ,
moving the older stuff to the front , removing any vegetables that appear to be
suspect , then refilling the empty spaces behind with new product , checking
the sprayers as well while he does so
Ushi looks at the
vegetable seeker like he's insane. She does not return the bow but says flatly
"Did you see the produce cooler? We put vegetables in it...” her tone
suggests she's speaking simply for him with some condescension.
Eien shakes his head and leaves the store with no purchases
considered or made.
Matt looks at Eien as
he heads back out and shrugs , then returns back to his work . then glances up
again as Dr Pierson enters in
Adam Pierson walks in, grabs a basket and fishes a piece of
paper out of his jeans pocket and looks it over. He heads right for the
beverage coolers by Matt, nodding as he walks past.
Ushi had watched the man with dreads leave with an
eye roll. She hears the door open again but doesn't look up right away as she
starts changing the till receipt tape. It jams and she smacks the machine
"Come on you stupid piece of crap." she says loudly.
Wolfgang Pots swaggers in making a beeline for the post
office with a large package in his arms.. he is whistling dixie as he waits at
the counter.
Matt quietly says "hello" to the Doctor , then quickly
glances at Ushi and then at Wolf whistling , then goes right back to the
vegetables
Adam looks at his
list, looks at the beverage coolers and frowns. "Matt, do they have beer
here? I'm looking for Guinness."
Ushi snickers,
overhearing the question and then forces the till tape in and looks down the
aisle, seeing if Matt answers the doctor properly.
Wolfgang puts the
package on the counter and hands over the money .. 'yeah .. its going all the
way to Atlanta ,.. for my favorite little lady ' he says chuckling. He looks
around and nods at everyone.
Alison Chase leaves the fur coat in the car and marches into
the grocery store, glancing around at all assembled, she recognises the woman
from Saturday night ..... and oh .,. the bag boy is here as well. She sees Wolf
as well and sniffs, haughtily beginning to walk around. For a moment she
wonders if she should just ask ... then decides she SHOULD ask. Looking towards
Matt, she clears her throat in that 'em, em' way one might associate with
Delores Umbridge.
Matt looks at Alison
as she enters , then turns to the Doctor to answer his question "No sorry
, we don't sell alcoholic products here , Doctor" then looks over towards
Alison again and waits patiently to see if she has a question
Adam sighs and grabs some bottled water instead. He proceeds
to move through the refrigerated cases after yogurt and a few other things.
Ushi looks annoyed at the whistling but then nods at Matt's
answer. She sees movement at the other end of the store but can't make out who
all the people are, probably no one she likes anyway.
Wolfgang smiles as
the person behind the counter take his package and he start to wander the aisle
seeing if he need anything
Alison looks at Matt as he looks at her, yet does not move.
She waits a moment to see if he will speak to her, watching the man getting
things on his own. Finally she huffs and walks over to him, looking rather put
about at the walking. "Hello ... Matt was it?" she looks around.
"oh this is .... where you .... work?" she isn’t sure work is the
right word, but.... "I have an order." she announces, like this is
his department .. and for all she knows .. it is.
Matt looks around a moment to see if anyone is watching,
then back at Alison , "The carts are outside. If you need help finding anything,
I would be happy to show you where the items are located it, all you have to do
is ask" indicating that he would not fill her order for her by his words
only and turns back to the vegetable cart he has out, having just finished with
the vegetables, returns with it to the back, then comes back out with a cart of
canned goods to restock those shelves
Adam moves on to the packaged meats, but passes them over
with a sigh. He doesn't have the room. He moves back over where the woman with
the cough was standing, and makes a pleased noise at the packaged bakery. In Tupperware
even. He selects two.
Ushi sees Matt come out with canned goods without being
nagged. She raises a brow and gives a quiet little "Hmm." It could
almost be mistaken for an impressed reaction. She watches the people round the
ends of aisles and duck back in after with a somewhat blank expression.
Wolfgang starts grabbing stuff off the shelves and then
grabs himself two baskets and place what he has so far in the basket .. he
heads over to the meat section
Alison blinks. "The what?" she asks. And then he
turns his back to her and LEAVES?? Again she blinks and when he returns she
follows him. "Are you refusing to serve me, Matthew?" she reaches out
to grab his arm and force his attention on her if allowed. "Who is your
supervisor?" she demands, still grabbing at Matt if she was ever allowed
the contact.
Matt looks at her hand grabbing his arm in disbelief then
looks up at her , "Ms Chen over at the register is the supervisor on duty
tonight" trying to yank his arm free as her grip is a little tight and he
needed to get back to his job , not answering her first question as that really
needed no answering
Adam moves into the aisle where Matt and the woman are, and
frowns as she grabs the stock boy. He says in a cool tone, "Is there a
problem here?"
Ushi hears the commotion and scowls. She knows that voice.
Without hesitation she shouts across the store "Alison!"
Wolfgang laughs softly as he places his order "I’ll
have a pound of livers, pork .. yeah my regular ' he say to the butcher . 'he
chuckles . He receives it and walks toward the canned food section .. he leans
slightly on the shelve 'Shiiitt., I thought I left the high class bitchy
southern belles .. in the south . They got them here. in extra bitchy.. 'He
states and just goes on shopping even take some of the can he needed
Alison tosses Matt’s shirt back at him as if it was dirty
and he is immediately forgotten. She looks at the man speaking to her coolly.
"That depends on if you are going to stay in my way or not." and, if
allowed, will brush briskly past him, perhaps knocking shoulders with him. Then
she hears Ushi and looks at her, shouting back. "Why isn't Lee working
here instead of THIS idiot." she swings her hand to point at Matt and may
or may not clip one or both of the men still in her orbit.
The sudden release as Matt is still trying to tug his arm
free sends Matt stumbling back a few steps into the shelf, knocking some cans
onto the floor, he grimaces thinking of them now being dented , but drops down
onto his knees to pick them up and replace them back on the shelf , wondering
what Alison's problem is , not even realizing he just missed getting sideswiped
in the head.
Adam looks at Matt sympathetically, then steps obliquely out
of Allison's way. He isn't above crowding her a little. He ducks when she
swings, resisting the urge to grab that swinging arm. "Money doesn't fix
manners..."
Ushi strides over to the produce area and picks up the
sprayer hose for the leafy greens. She doesn't even beat around the bush
"What do you want Alison?" She looks pointedly at her expensive
looking cashmere sweater wondering how much she'd like it soaking wet. She
darts a look at Matt checking he's not hurt and then looks at the doctor and
makes a little hand motion for him to scooch in case she sprays and then holds
up her hand indicating the whistling man should just stay back.
Wolfgang nods “Obviously
...” He goes forward pick up some Lucky Charms “…stupid is as stupid
does.. “He says, not disturbed by the psycho bitch’s antics “Jail cell didn do
ya good huh ?” he says ..
Alison barely registered Matt's fall and the spill. She
'ppffftttssss' at the other man. In her world money may not fix manners but it
buys what is needed in lack thereof. But then she ignores him too and focuses
on Ushi, who is holding a sprayer on her as if it were a pistol. She shrugs in
her soft sweater. "I want a delivery and this ... clumsy oaf ... can't
seem to figure out the basics of the idea. Where is Lee? He's always been our
delivery boy." she looks at her almost innocently as Lee had been
delivering groceries first to Alison’s family and then to she and her husband.
She looks over at Wolf. "I was out in two hours. It's called bail, you
little troll."
Matt finishes picking up the cans and hearing all the
commotion going on , gets up takes several steps back away from Alison , not
wanting to get any more involved than he already is.
Adam idly looks over the aisles near him, pretty much
finished. He's wondering how the Chen matriarch will handle this uppity woman.
Ushi glares at Alison "Lee got another job. So now
you're harassing all the other clerks? You like buying our food? Don't shove
your way around here. Or you can buy somewhere else."
Wolfgang shrugs "pfftt" not really caring .. “sorta
used to dealing with high class bitchy woman back in day of his stunt with
debutantes .. “ he just goes about shopping .. like she wasn’t even there.
Alison gapes. "Of all the ....." she sounds
surprised Lee got another job .. but considering his mother .... "You're
refusing to do business with me?" she sounds absolutely flabbergasted, as
if she’s never heard the like. Turning away MONEY? This little peasant woman?
Matt, uncertain what
to do about this situation , decides to return to his job if at all possible ,
but leaves the canned goods cart there for now , goes out back and brings out a
crate of milk and starts to rotate the milk properly so that the newest is in
the back , trying to ignore all the commotion going on
Adam scans the nearby aisles trying to see if there's
anything he's forgetting, then remembers he wanted some fruit... but
considering the situation, he'll get that another time. He heads toward the
aisles without uppity women.
Ushi watches Matt go to the dairy and then looks back at
Alison "We don't have to serve anyone who acts like you. We've got a whole
town of customers. If you want help, be nice. Otherwise, Vancouver has lots of grocery
stores." She does a small visual scan of the store, trying to be aware of
where the other shoppers are now as well.
Wolfgang just claps
at Ushi for putting the snob in her place and slowly starts his way
towards the deli .
Alison stares at Mrs
Chen in utter disbelief. "I will then." she replies, almost pleasantly.
On her way out, she grabs the cart with the cans on it and overturns it and
then kicks or throws every basket by the door she entered. Wrestling with the
door, she tries to wrench it open and storm away.
Matt turns and groans
at all the cans being scattered as he will now have to go pick them up then
hears the sound of other items being thrown and turns at disbelief at seeing
fruit splattered
"Definitely no fruit today." Adam mutters and
heads toward the register.
Ushi watches Alison's path of destruction with the look of a
bull barely held back from charging. She holds up the sprayer as Alison is near
the door but then doesn't use it and throws it back at the produce. Exhaling
hard she walks past Matt, stepping over cans and mess to check if anyone's at
the till. She shoots a glance back at Matt that looks for the briefest moment,
apologetic and says tiredly "You did OK kid." before heading up
front.
Wolfgang mutters to Ms. Chen “word of advice madam .. hit
her where it count.. in the pocketbook.. only place those kinda hussies feel
pain .. "
Matt nods briefly at Ms Chen , then goes out back to get a
mop and wet floor sign to start cleaning up the ruined fruit.
Adam walks up to the register and murmurs quietly to Mrs.
Chen, "Send her a bill. I would."
Ushi had nodded at the whistling man as she heard his words.
She slides the doctor's items roughly
across the scanner "Maybe you can check her head Doc. Something's gone a
little lose. That'll be $43.20."
Adam nods as he pulls out his wallet and the cash. He leaves
a tip as well. "She's gotta come in first, so..." He shrugs.
"You have a better evening, Mrs. Chen."
Wolfgang carefully makes his way toward the back trying not
to make a bigger mess and picks out what produce ain’t mashed ..he places some peaches in a bag ..
chuckles at the orchid name as he fills up on the them “Shady lane.. “ he makes his way to the front
to check
Matt turns to go out back to get towels and a bucket of
water and notices he forgot to take the milk back with him so grabs that on his
way by, then comes back out and wipes down the display as best as he can, he
then heads out back again to get a waste bucket to throw the broken fruit into
Adam neatly bags his items and shifts them to one hand,
waving as he walks out the door.
Ushi watches after the doctor, nods and mutters "MS!
Why does everyone think I'm married? Do I look like I have a good for nothing
man in my life?" She hears Matt scrubbing and says "Stupid
bitch...."
Wolfgang chuckles “Dont take it personally I was taught when
was knee height to a grasshopper to say madam .. to every lady .. don’t matter
the age or state of marriage or lack thereof .”he says placing his baskets on
the counter “Southern thang. “he says.
Paying more attention on his job than the talk up front ,
Matt doesn’t hear them except as background noise , comes back out with the
waste bucket , finishes cleaning up the fruit stand , double checks the floor
and wet floor sign , then takes everything else not needed out back , making
two trips to do so.
Ushi reaches for the southern man's basket and sees two.
Raising a brow she says "Maybe a cart next time eh?" She waits until
he puts one up before trying to take any items to scan "Well I'm no Madame
either. She's just a stupid rich cow."
Wolfgang chuckles “Nah.. I like carry two baskets” he shrugs
“I agree.. bet her milk would churn out sour milk ..though”.
After finishing with carrying everything back , he then
turns to the canned goods and cart , sighs , rights the cart , and starts
picking up cans , starting with the ones that fell directly under where the
cart landed , sets them aside as unusable now , and then sorts all the rest of
the cans back to where they belonged , and goes back to restocking the rest of
the canned goods
Ushi actually chuckles sardonically at the sour milk comment
and then she deadpans "So you wanna pay?" looking down at his still
held baskets.
Wolfgang sets the basket on the counter “Yeah.”
Matt finishes the
canned goods , then checks over the rest of the dry goods to see what else
might be needing restocking then returns the cart out back and brings out what
is needed
Ushi starts swiping the
Southern man's groceries across and then looking at the volume yells
"Matt! Come bag please." She looks casually up at the customer
"That's a lot of peaches."
Wolfgang laughs “Kinda grown a sweet spot for them.” he
smiles and chuckles “Raised on them .. Probably have peach juice for blood.”he laughs
Matt looks up as he is called and immediately sets down the
items he was working on , and walks up front , starts bagging the items ,
making sure that anything hot was kept away from anything that might melt , as
well as keeping all the cold stuff together , and bagging the bakery items by
themselves as well as any non food stuff to avoid contamination
Ushi looks at the customer like he has three heads and then
shrugs "$71.85, how do you want to pay?" She takes note of Matt's
work, all of it being exemplary, but gives him no more obvious signs of her
approval.
Wolfgang smiles “Ya ok there matt?” he adds as he bags the
groceries and chuckles at her look not
taking any offense “oh debit” he says handing her his debit card.
Matt looks at Wolf and nods "I am fine, thank you for asking.
Will you need help with carrying any of this out?" to be polite even
though he knows that Wolf probably can manage
Ushi swipes through the debit card and then pushes the
machine to the customer. Matt offers help after the ordeal of the day and Ushi
has to visibly fight a small grin while she waits for the transaction to go
through.
Wolfgang smiles “Nah but thank ya kindly.” he smiles as he
waits for his receipt.
Matt nods and then returns back to stocking, then cleaning
up the aisles , helping wherever needed until his shift was over.
Ushi drops the receipt into a bag without asking if that's
what the customer wants and then says "Alright here you go." She
walks away from the till to the back room quietly, digesting all that's
happened in the evening.
Wolfgang waves to Matt and smiles and grabs his bags
chuckling softly fishing out a peach and eating it on the way out.
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