Usually I tend to be a rather shy person, quiet until I really get to know a person. But take me to a grocery store, and I get positively verbose. I love to chat with strangers in the check-out line about what they are buying. It is very voyeuristic. For those moments you get a glimpse as to what type of person they are. Do they have pets, children? Are they health nuts, junk food junkies? And occasionally someone has something in their cart with which I am unfamiliar. In those cases I have to ask them what it is they’re buying; and what they plan on doing with it.
Last week I was waiting in an endless line at Berkeley Bowl (a ginormous grocery store with an unbelievable ethnic and produce section). I noticed the woman ahead of me in line with a large bag of tightly clustered, tiny, grape-like [...]
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