The new cashier was indeed taking a lot longer than Eddie would have liked, but as a fellow cashier, he understood that it is a daunting task. Even if you had been a cashier for two years at one store, once you change stores the system is almost always different, with different codes to enter and different buttons to press. Unless this kid had never been a cashier before, in which case Eddie really felt bad for him, because grocery stores were pretty fast-paced, and hungry people were almost always in worse moods.
When someome spoke behind him, he turned around and realized that, once again, he had been in line at this grocery store and, once again, it was a girl who had spoken to him from behind. What a sight he must have been; a fully-grown man carrying a cute little bag of cat food and two adorable cat toys and a scratching post with a super-happy looking kitty jumping over a rainbow on the wrapping. He laughed the thought away and bowed slightly to the girl. "Good afternoon, milday." Always the charmer, he was. "It does seem to be that way, indeed," he agreed. "The regular cashier is not here today, otherwise the line would be going much more quickly."
Once he had finished speaking, Eddie got a better look at her face, and once again felt as though he should know her, but he didn't. That had been happening a lot lately. But he firmly reminded himself that this was the Muggle world and that the change of running into another person from Hogwarts was very slim. Oh, little did he know...