Neither her sour expression nor her shapeless supermarket smock succeeded in making her blend into her drab surroundings. With wavy red-gold hair, creamy skin, and doll-like features, she was a knockout who turned heads everywhere she went.Her customer, an elderly woman with white hair, fluttered her hands and begged, “Please be more careful!”Rita tossed two big cans of baked beans on top of eggs, bananas and lettuce. She dropped in glass jars instead of carefully placing them, and piled so much into each bag that Tom wondered whether the customer would make it into her house without one of them splitting and spilling everything.The customer looked ready to weep by the time Rita read out the total of the bill in a bored monotone. The woman wrote a check with a shaking hand and Rita took it without once looking her in the face. Pushing her groceries out past Tom, the customer yelped in distress as one overstuffed bag tipped sideways and cans and bottles rolled out into the cart. Tom stopped to help her re-bag everything before he moved on.
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