A: Excuse me sir, this is the express check-out lane for people that have fifteen items or fewer. It looks like you have more than fifteen items there.
B: Oh, come on! I have sixteen items! Cut me some slack, will ya?
A: Fine! Please place your items on the belt and push your shopping cart through. Do you prefer paper or plastic?
B: Plastic. I also have a couple of coupons.
A: No problem, I’ll take those. Sir, these coupons expired yesterday.
B: Darn! Oh, well. I guess it’s just not my day. Thanks anyway
A: Do you have a club card or will it be cash?
B: Yeah I got a club card. Here you go.
A: Will this be debit or credit?
B: Debit please. Also, could I get cash back? Fifty dollars would be great.
A: Yeah, sure. Your total is seventy-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. Here is your receipt. Have a nice day.
Key Vocabulary
| it is just not my day | phrase | a lot of bad things happened to me today |
| cash back | common noun, nonvariable | charging more money to your card in order to receive cash back |
| cut me some slack | phrase | don’t be so strict, bend the rules |
| expire | principle verb, past simple | to no longer be valid after a period of time |
| check-out lane | common noun, singular | the place you line up to pay for the things you want |
Supplementary Vocabulary
| Stock | principle verb, present simple | To supply (a shop) with merchandise. |
| Warehouse | common noun, singular | a place where goods are stored prior to their sale or distribution |
| Poultry | common noun, singular | Domestic birds, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs. |
| Bag boy | common noun, singular | A person, usually a teenager that works at a supermarket and places groceries that a person buys in plastic or paper bags |
| Bar code | common noun, singular | an arrangement of numbers and parallel lines on a package, which can be electronically scanned at a checkout to give the price of the goods |
