Friday, 18 May 2012

16/5/12 Tesco’s Café: lunchtime


Just eaten a filling bit of Shepherd’s pie in the café and am now sitting back to observe. Mum is arguing with her phone; parent + smartphone, who thought that was a good idea?

Unsurprisingly the café is about a fifth full of people eating lunch. The only ones I can see from here are an older couple, but they’re just leaving. However, in their place there are now two teenage girls, who approached the table cautiously… A police officer with a clipboard has just walked down the store with a bloke in a suit, which could be potentially interesting, but they’ve passed out of my line of sight so I shall never know. Anyway, the teenagers, I assume they’re college students, don’t seem very lively or cheery. One’s on her phone and picking at fruit salad, a lunch break to remember.

Just spotted a guy downstairs who spent ages looking closely at the plants while I was eating; I thought he might be something of an amateur horticulturalist, but why would he buy plants at the supermarket if he was? He didn’t even pick any up, he left with 4 cans, some bagels and a few other boring things precariously held in his arms. I guess he didn’t intend to buy that much.

There’s a guy just walked in with sunglasses on, didn’t think the light were that bright; he’s most likely come from outside and forgotten. The girl picking at the fruit has a rather false face, I think it’s the eyebrows, they’re too bold. A woman downstairs has a baby carrier, complete with baby, in her trolley. If I did that I’d stick it on the conveyor at the checkout then complain when they wouldn’t let me buy it.

An employee just walked past with a Bluetooth device in his ear, presumably for vital messages: “we’re running out of cornflakes, prepare for carnage!”

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