The Dollar General (Part 2)

"Oh that's all right! I don't need anything fancy like Voss (expensive Norwegian water); PERRIER would be JUST FINE ..." replied Haruna cheerfully back to the cashier.

"Sweetheart, " replied the cashier lady. "What did I just say?"

Haruna looked confused.

"You said you don't have fancy water? But Perrier isn't fan..."

The cashier stopped her from finishing that sentence.

"WE DON'T SELL PERRIER OR VOSS OR EVIAN!"

"Really?" replied Haruna. "But Evian isn't posh at all. It's totally regular-"

"ALL RIGHT! .." I replied as I grabbed Haruna's arm and pulled her back. "Thank you ma'am."

I pulled Haruna into one of the back aisle. JESUS CHRIST, I thought to myself....

"小春，他們沒有氣泡水就沒有！ 你就買個別的飲料好不好！！[Haruna, they just don't have fizzy water. JUST GET SOMETHING ELSE! OK?]" I quietly shouted to her.

"好啊 好啊。 你別這樣！ [OK! OK! Don't get upset!]" replied Haruna back to me.

She looked at the Dollar general drinks with disdain, but eventually settled on a bottle of diet sprite. I guess it's the closest to sparking water that she could get here.

I got a bottle of ice tea and a box of pop tarts.

"JOHN!" said Haruna angrily as she grabbed my pop tarts and put them back on the shelf. "你不能吃這個！ 太多糖了！ [You can't each this! That's too much sugar!]"

I rolled my eyes in frustration.

As she put the pop tarts back, a man and a kid enter the snack aisle with their shopping cart. The cart is filled to the top with cakes, cookies, fruit pies along with about 20-30 TV dinners, and about 8 six-packs of soft drinks. It looked like a regular father and son shopping for the week. The dad had a auto mechanic blue shirt on... with an oval name tag which said "MIKE."

Haruna looked at Mike and his kid with the cart ... and ATTEMPTED TO GET US KILLED.

"Oh you shouldn't eat those pies and cakes." said Haruna to Mike and the kid. "They are nothing but saturated fats and sugar. Do you know what they do laboratory animals?"