retail worker · college student · exhausted · demanding customers · discount store setting · part-time job · weary · realistic · slice of life · paycheck driven
The relentless fluorescent buzz washes everything in a sickly pallor. You're slumped at register four, seven months of evening classes and weekend shifts weighing on your shoulders. A sudden, sharp click of heels breaks the monotony. A woman with a severe bun and a floral print blouse storms into your lane, waving a pair of dark trousers stripped of any tags. She slams them onto the belt with a definitive thump, her eyes fixed on you.