#EXCITING i havent really had much southern food in my life

[farcillesbian]

IM GONNA HAVE BISCUITS AND GRAVY AND GRITS FOR BREAKFAST!!!!

[sharama]

Why

Im Working quietly on packaging up and labeling the all the meats I sliced for the case. Customer walks up to the counter. He's looking at the potato salads.

Me : "Good morning!"

Him. : "Yeah uh. Do you have any of the southern style potato salad?"

Me: "not at the moment, we are waiting for the truck to come."

Him: "but why don't you got it? How are customers supposed to buy it??"

Me:" there have been issues with the warehouse sending the product."

Him: "oh, I see. That sucks."

Me: "we should get them today in later in the morning"

Him: -nods- "okok"

He then starts talking about a store next to where he lives. Can't really hear him because he's mumbling half the time but I just nod along agreeing with what ever he was mumbling about while I'm still packaging my stuff. Then he brings up another store and they have a 6lb potato salad and that our large is 3lb. And he's still mumbling half the time.

Him: "mumblemumble's potato salad has toooo much mayonnaise. Almost no !potatooooeeesss! And mostly mayo!!"

Me: "yes, it should have more potatoes and less mayo. It's called potato salad. Not mayonnaise salad."

He laughs And Then gets distracted by something else in the case. I go back to focusing on my my task.

Him: "mumblemumblemumble would you think that it would taste good if I mixed it with the cat fooood?"

Me completly caught off guard: -blinks-

My mind going: ????did I hear him right??? Cat food?????? Potato salad??????? Wat??????

He continues on while my brain is still trying to processes his question. Error 404.blue screen of death. Insert windows shutdown sound. Etc.

Him looking like he's just frustrated at life: " if cats can eat cat food and dogs eat dog food, why can't I eat their food? Huh???"

Me still trying to processes this situation: "uhh, I don't know? I cant imagine it'll taste good."

That apparently seemed to satisfy him as he thanks me and walks away. I look at the time. 7:15am...

Me@me: "too early in the morning for these kinds of shenanagains. Not even awake enough for this and i havent even started drinking my red bull yet."

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Around 8am

Just when we open the deli counter

"Name customer" walks up. I call him this because he always goes on about people's names. And meaning of the names. Interesting guy imo.

I'm still packaging/labeling the meats. (Its a lot of stuff i had to slice ok.😭) as he is talking to my other coworker.

Him: appears out of nowhere "hey there little girl, y'all open? I need ham."

Me: dead pan stare at him. Answered with a monotone "Yes."

The "hey there little girl" part real life annoyed me. He may have ment it in jest but it still irked me.

Him: "are you able to slice some ham for me? I need a ham. A good ham."

Me: "ok, what kind of ham? A sweet ham, smoked ham or just a plain ham?"

Him : "sweet"

Me : "we have maple honey ham."

Him: "too sweet"

Me: " would you like the delux ham? It's just a regular ham, it's still good."

Him : "ok"

I get the ham and he looks at my name tag and says "Loki?? I haven't met anyone named Loki before, what does it mean?" I looked at him and I can tell he does in fact know. He's just seeing if I know.

Me: " it is a nickname for me, But it is the Norse god of mischief."

Him excited: " Yes! Very good! A Norse girl!"

The rest of the interaction goes along as a "normal" interaction. He and I talk about current stuff involving the company I work for as I'm slicing his ham. He then sees the sign for a Turkey we have on sale.

Him : "Ovengold turkey is on sale? why didn't you sell that one to me?"

Me: " you had asked for ham sir. That is a turkey."

He smiles and shakes his finger in a "you got me there" kind of way.

He leaves and tells me to stay out of trouble.