I Love People At Grocery Stores.

I love people at grocery stores.

I have been looking for ground coriander for an embarrassingly long time. I have moved my cart out of the way 7 times for people who actually know where stuff is. I move to the side, looking thoughtful so people know that they should say “excuse me” and grab what they need instead of waiting.

Someone stands beside me. They stand beside me for a couple of minutes, which is 10,000 years in grocery store time. “What are you looking for?” I ask. “I’ll look for yours if you’ll look for mine, we’ve been standing here long enough to look at everything except what we’re looking for.” They almost immediately find my ground coriander, and I find them their ground whit poor.

I go up to two young women. “Excuse me, I know this is weird,” immediate suspicion, “I know you don’t work here,” relaxation, “but do you have any idea where the crushed tomatoes would be? It’s not in with all the other canned tomatoes.” Relief. And I’ll be damned but it was in the pasta aisle like they said - turns out, there’s more overlap between “tomato” and “tomato sauce” than you would think.

I am 5’5”, looking at something on the top shelf. A man about my height stands next to me, looking up. I ask him which one he needs. He knows more English than I know Spanish, but we end up mostly doing charades. I scoop our [cereal, soup? can’t remember] off the top shelf using a packet of spaghetti I picked up earlier as leverage.

I love you, everyone I’ve met at the grocery store.

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