Good thing i'm off the market

One of the utterly useless things I can do is stand by a bank of elevators and more often than not, be the closest to the one that arrives next.

Some would say this is merely coincidence or only seems "more often than not", but I know that it is a directly related to the following fact.

I also can pick the slowest moving line at the grocery checkout.  I can get into a line with only one person ahead of me and the other lines can each have two or more people and they will start to move faster.

This happened last night at Trader Joe's.  It isn't often I get the same wacky cashier at TJs because I don't go with any consistency but as luck would have it, I got the same HipsterChick as the last visit.  She might even think I purposedly choose her checkout because I didn't move to the one next to us each time it appeared that the person checking out was finished.  It just that other customers got into line before I could move my cart.

Finally I got in line and we had a little chat.  Usually the TJ checkout clerks are friendly and chatty but there's no real connection.  For example, they will say "did you find everything alright" and you can say "I couldn't find the frozen aardvarks" and they will, without blinking, say "yeah we must be out of them again." 

Last time, HipsterChick seemed about as interested in going through the TJ required interact-with-Customer routine as I usually am.  And watching her slowy pack her customer's groceries, she looked like she wanted to be anywhere but here.  But strangely, when I got up in line, she seemed more chatty with me.  I would almost say, flirty.

Not in the "I'm really trying to pick you up" flirty, but more of the "you are the first interesting person that has walked through the door in the last hour please take me with you" sort of flirting.  It could just be my imagination.  Maybe she asks everyone what they got going on tonight.  If she was flirting, I'm certain that telling her that I'm gonna set up my new DVR squashed any remote desire that she would want to let me see her naked.