1. I’m standing in the store, picking out persimmons. An elderly lady approaches me with a weird device — a string with an attached nut (a pendulum). She brings it close to each persimmon, and it swings.

She tells me, “No, the persimmons aren’t sweet, don’t take them! I ask the pendulum if the persimmon is sweet? And it tells me no! It swings sideways — that means no.”

But I’m a rebel, I bought them anyway.

2. I went shopping with my wife. In the mall, she immediately took me to some clothing store and told me to wait at the entrance. An hour went by, then two — I got tired and got up to take a walk. About 150 feet away from the entrance, I found a group of guys sitting with huge bags and playing board games.

I watched them play, and one of them said, “Waiting for your wife too? Join us, we’ve got chess and books here. We’re the club of tired guys who get worn out from our wives’ shopping trips.” So now, I’m a member of this club.

Performance in one of the stores

This guy (one of the consultants) is sitting there totally unbothered. As soon as I came up to him with a question, he took off his mask right away… Respect and good vibes!

3. On a Friday evening, my friend and I decided to grab a bite of juicy grilled chicken. So, we walk into the store, making our way through the aisles toward our future dinner. We find it and choose the most well-roasted chicken.

But there’s no one behind the counter to serve us the chicken. We wait about 5 minutes, imagining how we’re going to eat it — yet, no one comes. More customers arrive and line up. We tell them we’ve been standing there for almost 7 minutes, and still, no one shows up.

Then it suddenly dawns on me that there’s no glass in the display, and we can take the chicken ourselves. We all had a good laugh right there in the store!

4. We have very nice girls working in our market. Once, I bought this and that, including a book with mystical stories. The cashier rang up my purchases and offered me some cookies on sale.

I declined, and she said so earnestly, “You’re going to get home, sit down to read, and want something to snack on, but there won’t be anything.” I burst out laughing and, of course, bought the cookies!

5. I was in a hurry and didn’t know which line to join. At the first cashier, there was a woman with a mountain of groceries. At the second, an ordinary man with 3 bottles of mineral water. Without much thought, I got in line behind him. I was pleased, thinking I would make it quick.

Suddenly, the man turns around and shouts across the hall: “Lana, where are you? It’s our turn!” And then Lana comes rushing in from the hall with a large cart of groceries, pushes past me, and stands next to the man.

It turns out he was holding the place for both himself and his wife, and it took them half an hour to check out their goods. Meanwhile, the woman in the next line was done in a couple of minutes. Turns out, lines can be unpredictable too.

I went grocery shopping with my mom saw this in the fruit section. Whoever did this, I hope you have a great day!

6. I’m standing in the store, picking out a T-shirt. Suddenly, a woman rushes in, scanning the racks with hungry eyes. Right behind her is a little girl, about 8 years old, who sensibly tells her, “Mom, remember — today you’re only looking, but not buying anything.”

7. Went to the store in the evening, filled up a cart with goods, and was heading to check them out at the self-checkout. I scanned about half of my purchases and suddenly remembered that I wanted to get some cough drops — they are usually on the stands near the cash registers.

I walked just 3 steps away, came back, and my cart with the remaining groceries was gone! And I saw that the store employee was cheerfully rolling my cart away. It turned out, she thought these were items that customers decided not to buy, piled some more groceries on top, and took them away.

A store employee hunting a pigeon

8. So, yesterday, I’m standing in the hardware store, waiting for my contract. Some man is glancing at me near the checkout. At first it’s just a quick look, then more often, and then he really starts staring.

I’m thinking to myself: I must be quite the knockout today. Turns out, there was his order — tile spacers — on the table behind me and he was keeping an eye to make sure I didn’t swipe them.

9. A vivid story came to mind. I run a small grocery store in the neighborhood. We typically had fresh bread delivered twice a day, and it always sold out quickly. But for a week, it didn’t sell for some reason, and more than half was left over.

I found out that in the morning, one of the saleswomen didn’t let a woman with a dog in who was a regular customer for 10 years. Many people used to visit us with their dogs in the morning and evening.

The woman talked about it, and all the dog owners stopped coming, along with many others, because everyone in the neighborhood loves this woman and her dog…

10. So I’m standing in a store, choosing spinach, and I can’t find the date of manufacture. A man approaches.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see him and think it’s my husband, so I say, “I can’t find the date of manufacture, can you take a look?” And I hear a completely unfamiliar deep voice: “Yeah, sure, I’ll find it.”

I look — and it’s not my husband, but some stranger. I say, “Oh, sorry!” And he replies, “No worries, I’m here for some arugula!