Oh, My Sweet Summer Boyfriend
Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Extra Stupid, Grocery Store, Oklahoma, USA | Romantic | January 10, 2019
(My boyfriend has taken a liking to a European candy that randomly showed up in our local grocery store, but once they run out of the first shipment they never seem to restock. We find the same candy at another branch of the store, but the packaging seems much smaller than the ones we got before.)
Boyfriend: “Huh, these only come in fours; the ones we got before were in eights.”
Me: “Maybe we accidentally had two stuck together last time and didn’t realize.”
Boyfriend: “That couldn’t be it. The alarms would have gone off, then, wouldn’t they?”
Me: *looking at him quizzically* “Huh?”
Boyfriend: “Yeah, if you don’t scan the barcode, then the alarms by the doors will detect it and go off, right?”
Me: *fighting down laughter* “That… that’s not… those sensors detect the electronic tags they put on expensive items, not barcodes!”
Boyfriend: “What?”
Me: *still trying not to laugh* “How would it detect a barcode through your bags? Even the checkouts can’t do that!”
Boyfriend: “So… Wait, what keeps people from stealing the stuff without tags?!”
Me: “Cameras and common decency!”
(I swear my boyfriend is normally very smart, but I was reminded very strongly that day that he has never in his life worked retail.)
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