What’s up with the silent treatment?

Posted by Janice on July 10, 2009

This morning I woke up early.  Well, not early if I had to do a bus run, but early for a day off!  And today was a day off!  I had determined that I was going to go grocery shopping this morning to avoid the weekend crowds, so I went ahead and got up, had my tea and breakfast, checked my emails, and then woke my hubby to get him rustled up to go with me.  He likes to go grocery shopping with me so he can pick out the junk food he likes that I won’t buy if I shop alone!

Anyway, we provide our own reusable shopping bags.  When we were ready to go to through the checkout counter, I recognized the cashier from many previous trips to the store.  The last time I went there and had our reusable bags I put all of them on the counter first; in front of the groceries and she had a major conniption fit, telling me that I had to hand the bags to her one at a time, and to wait until she asked for them!  Well of course that slows down the checkout process a lot but in the interest of keeping the peace that is what I did.

So today when we got up to the cash register’s conveyor belt I asked the cashier if she wanted us to hand the bags to her one at a time, or all at once.  All she did was stare at us and shake her head “no.”  that was not a “yes or no” question, so I asked her again.  Again she just shook her head no.  And again!  So I finally said “well, I can’t figure out which one it is you want us to do by you not answering me, so I’ll just put all of the bags in the front and if that’s not want you want please tell me.”

Later on during the checkout process she asked me a few questions, so I know she didn’t have laryngitis!  So I don’t have a clue what was up with the silent treatment at first!