Queueing at the till, I noticed the cashier looked as if she was being trained by an older woman.
This older lady was standing right over the cashier and I thought that this kind of attention would make me nervous.
Then when I reached the front of the queue, the cashier was on her own.
‘Where’s the other lady gone?’ I asked.
The cashier looked confused and didn’t seem to know what I meant.
So I described who I’d seen standing over her. The colour drained from her face.
She said that was her old supervisor, who had no spatial awareness but had died a few years ago!
Clearly she came back to check on standards.
Margaret Ridgway, Netherfield, Bucks…
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