Small talk is an art form, one in which we don't all excel at.
How many of us have asked a taxi driver if it's been a "busy night, mate?" Or ended up having a discussion about holidays with their hairdresser?
And, it seems, shoppers are not immune to basic patter, as a Tesco worker Holly showed on TiKTok. Holly posted a video where she listed the things she hears "at least 10 times each shift," while working in Tesco.
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As Mirror Online reports, one of the lines is something most of us have probably said at the check-out.
Holly explained that the first thing she hears customers telling her every day is that they "only came in for one thing", while paying for a weekly-shop sized trolley of goods.
Among the other customer classics is the old "Oh, it's not scanning? It must be free" when an item's barcode is not read properly. As an unimpressed Holly wrote on the video: "Absolutely not."
Hollie said she also gets told by customers that when she "looks bored" shoppers tell her they chose her till to "give her something to do".
Replies to her video included anecdotes from fellow supermarket workers. "They ask for a lottery ticket and then go 'the winning one would be good' when you ask what one they want", said one.
Not that Hollie is ungrateful, stating in her replies that "I love my job".
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