Walgreens

Convenient and close to our hotel, was able to buy office supplies & snacks to needed for my business trip.

#3 from The Cattle Prod files
Here is a vignette of a recent morning experience at Walgreens, which also serves as a parable about what is necessary to survive day-​to-​day life in New Jersey:
Me: (after waiting three minutes for Middle-​aged Female Cashier to make her way over to the register) Good morning, [name withheld]. A pack of Camel 99’s please?
MFC: Which ones are those?
Me: (at the breaking point after a very rough start) They’re the same ones they were yesterday, and the day before that. The same ones they’ve been the last 200 times you’ve gotten them for me.
MFC: There’s no reason to be nasty! I don’t smoke, and I don’t know anything about cigarettes!
Me: You know I come in every morning, have been doing so for about two years, and that I buy cigarettes.
MFC: I don’t work every morning.
Me: I know that. But you know you see me every morning when you’re here. I believe you’re being deliberately obtuse.
MFC: (reaches down and gets cigarettes, uninstructed)