Can't Stand the Heat (2013)
“the young woman said as she turned away from the electronic screen over the cash register.
Lauren fought the urge to cringe. Even with her bonus card and coupons, her groceries still totaled almost twenty dollars more than she had budgeted. She stared at the bags now in her cart, at the plastic-wrapped boneless chicken and the head of lettuce. She thought she had bought the bare minimum.
There’s no way I could have made my list any shorter!
Her electric and phone bills were both due in a few da...ys. She would have to pay those soon and that would definitely put her checking account into overdraft again. That would be another thirty-five-dollar fee.
Lauren bit her bottom lip and dragged her debit card through the scanner. She punched in her password, half expecting the screen to suddenly flash red with the words, “Alert! Alert! Do not accept this broke-woman’s money!”
“You know, you’re one of ten people in town that do their grocery shopping here at ten thirty in the morning on Wednesdays.”MoreLess
Lauren fought the urge to cringe. Even with her bonus card and coupons, her groceries still totaled almost twenty dollars more than she had budgeted. She stared at the bags now in her cart, at the plastic-wrapped boneless chicken and the head of lettuce. She thought she had bought the bare minimum.
There’s no way I could have made my list any shorter!
Her electric and phone bills were both due in a few da...ys. She would have to pay those soon and that would definitely put her checking account into overdraft again. That would be another thirty-five-dollar fee.
Lauren bit her bottom lip and dragged her debit card through the scanner. She punched in her password, half expecting the screen to suddenly flash red with the words, “Alert! Alert! Do not accept this broke-woman’s money!”
“You know, you’re one of ten people in town that do their grocery shopping here at ten thirty in the morning on Wednesdays.”MoreLess
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