Wednesday, February 25, 2009

At the grocery store with Selena

This written piece is intended for the age group of 24-40 (working moms)
There she is standing in the long line at the grocery store. We shall call this stranger, Selena. Selena can be seen standing at the end of the long line, with a packed cart in front of her. Her average size body weight is leaning on the handle of the cart in front of her, as she seems to be tired and exhausted from a typical 9-5 office day job. Selena is looking past the approximate 10 customers in front of her and straight ahead to the cashier who she is hoping can speed up the rate at which she is cashing each item. Selena continues standing in the line, which doesn't seem to be progressing, with an expression of exhaustion, tiredness and frustration.
From the appearance of Selena's body language and facial expression right now, one may get the impression that she is not a very welcoming person, in fact she appears to be quite mean and intimidating looking. This may be mostly because of the frustration of standing in such a long line. By looking at Selena, one sees that she is most likely in her 20's. She is quite attractive with layered-shoulder length chestnut brown hair along with dark chocolate-colored eyes. It seems as if Selena doesn't get much sleep as she has a layer of bags under both of her eyes, perhaps it's the result of working late. The use of dark eye liner and a dark shade of red lipstick stands out on her cream-skin colored complexion face. Selena seems to be a born pure Canadian.
Selena seems to be in the Sobey's grocery store after coming from a long, hard day at say her office job. Her formal office stripe pants and black heels along with a long black coat says that she has a well-paying job at maybe a company. The black purse hanging from Selena's shoulder seems to contain a lot as if it's weighing down the lady's shoulder, perhaps it contains a 'fat wallet'.
Oh, would you look at that, Selena is next in line to cash her grocery items at the cashier. From a fully packed cart of grocery items, Selena begins taking each item out and onto the belt in a rush, she begins with the loaf of Dempsters sliced bread. From the variety and amount of food items on the belt and in the cart, Selena definitely does not live alone. From the Rice Krispes, Candy and a large rectangular cake with the words on it saying,'Happy 6TH Birthday Jessica', it appears that Selena has a family of her own. It appears the Selena's family consists of herself, a six-year old daughter ad a husband who loves snacking on Pistachios nuts. The pasta and canned Tomato sauce say that is what will be cooked and served by Selena tonight for the nightly family dinner. The last of the items, the frozen food meals packed in a box send the message that sometimes 'mom' won't have time to cook dinner as she may be busy with work or pulling a late night.
After all of her grocery items are cashed for, Selena takes out her credit card to pay. She quickly shoves the receipt into her stuffed wallet and in a rush fills the cart with her grocery bags. Selena in a quick pace, walks out of the Sobey's store pushing her cart and arrives outside to the parking lot to a black SUV where she opens the trunk and begins filling it with the bags. Selena quickly jumps into the car seat and drives away just as another stranger.

2 comments:

Marina Efstat said...

I liked this. It is very frustrating waiting in line, customers complain all the time about lines. I work at a grocery store. What they don't get is that were only human lol. Do we go to their work and complain. Anyways i am going off topic. You have a couple of spelling errors which is normal and you should just check your grammar. Maybe re-reading your work will help with that :). Also when you are using numbers that do not relate to math eqautions or are less than 100, type out the word rather than writing it as 20. :) Mr. C taught us that in class today! But good job, i liked this!

Katerina E. said...

This is a really good post. You gave the character of Selena an interesting background and description. The only suggestion i have is to start each sentence with something new because it sounds kind of repetative. AWESOME JOB!