31st - In the cold cuts queue; 10, dec, 2021; {nov, 16, 2024, sat, 8 AM; E}; [nov, 16, 2025, sat]
at the market, I wait, about two meters behind the customer; I count 5 tiles. However, a couple approaches - recklessly - from behind me. They talk heatedly about the afternoon barbecue at the ranch with colleagues, i am suffocating, head for the cashier, a trio approaches from the right side, I turn left, a family talking blocks the corridor, I turn right again, two more excited ones, I turn back, the couple continues the heated conversation. again. resolute. I count my breaths. I close my eyes. for a few moments. I enter the corridor on the right. I pass by tea stands, do I pick up the boxes, or do not? green tea, anise, chamomile; fennel. I count my exhalations, they are warming, pleasantly, inside the mask. I glimpse emptiness in the direction of the cash registers. I cross the wide, surprisingly, almost empty central corridor. I approach. I reach the cash register, close, very close, I seem to feel jets of air on the back of my neck, each cash register with two to four customers. I breathe, stop. Do I leave behind everything and get out? breathe in; Ibreathe out; rhythmically; I resist. get in line; wait; keep my distance; breathe in; breathe out; I feel someone's presence; you approache from behind; hold back! Keep your eyes on the moving conveyor belt! Observe the operator's agile hands! Take a look outside! See cars going up the overpass! Noticethey cut down the giant tree! Outside, there are still leaves swaying in the wind; inside; the attendant's repetitive movements. Continue to rhythmically breathe. Don't comment, but notice the absurd lack of ergonomics of the workstation: keyboard high up, almost vertical, facing east, monitor facing south; while helping, the packer is in the north! So many twists and turns! Protected by a mask and a plastic plate. I reorder; ask for a cardboard box. insert a credit card into the slot in the plastic plate; I hope I can soon go back to using money; I type in my password; I pack my purchases. I sterilize my hands. I leave.
By VanRes,
10/12/2021, 9:00 PM.
(19/12/2021, v04.e7.a47, 6:20 PM to 6:35 PM)
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