Alternate Ending to Checkouts

He leaned forward and started to pick up the glass around his feet, and the feet of his “checkout”. He thought of how this could have been one of those classic stories of, “how I met your mom”. But the thought quickly faded as he slipped and fell on the slippery mayonaise, tripping his beloved. They both hit the floor with a aloud thud. Everyone looked in their
direction.

The guy still had no idea that the girl he thought would not be caught dead with him, was actually head over heels for him, literally. She liked the way that after they fell he got up in a hurry to help her up. She especially loved the way he kept showing his concern for her well being. It was like he knew what she was looking for in a guy.

Meawhile the clutsy bag boy stood face to face with the girl of his dreams. He asked, “Are you okay ?” He felt stupid asking if she was okay after he was the cause of the incident. But all of a sudden he felt something he had never felt before. It was word vomit. He knew what was about to come out of his mouth, and he did his best to try to hold it in. He did not know the potential outcome of the situation, all he knew was that he was either going to regret it or thank god he said it. All of sudden, “Would you like to go out some time for a drink. You know so I can formally apologize for all of this”.

He could not believe he had just asked this gorgeous young lady that question. He had only know her for a couple of minutes, and in these few minutes made a complete fool of himself. He prepared his self for the worst.

All of a sudden, the girl said, “I would love to”. The girl had been waiting for this moment ever since she had walked into the store and saw the bag boy.

He could not believe what he just heard. Had the girl he longed for, and the girl he had embarrassed himself in front of , actually given him the time of day. He hurried and cleaned from around the girls feet, forgetting he had a mountain of mayonnaise on his leather work shoes.
After he was done cleaning her feet, they set up the date, time, and place of their first date. They both chose to meet the following Saturday, at a place called Benihana’s, at 9 o’clock p.m. When they had set the date the girl went on her way. The boy stayed behind and finished his duties. Everyone who was on duty congratulated him. The men who were on staff gave him tips that they thought would help him woe.

When the bag boy got home from work he immediately went to his room and went through his array of clothes, to look for the perfect outfit, for a date that was six days away. As he looked he started to realize that he really did not have a great since of fashion. He had shirts that looked like they were from 1860. So he went to the bank and got one-hundred and fifty dollars out and went to Hollister, and bought a cool dressy but not to dressy outfit. Then he went to payless, because those were the only shoes he could afford after shopping in Hollister.

When he got home he laid the new outfit on the bed and looked at for over half an hour. He saw what he had bought was good and very good.

Meanwhile at the girl’s apartment, she was more excited than the guy. But unlike the guy, she had a little bit more fashion sense than he did. She too picked her outfit out six days in advance. She picked out a nice yellow and black sundress , with sum black and yellow flats. She too looked at what she had picked, and saw that it was very good.

Six days later, the time had almost arrived for the two young people to go on their date. They both eagerly got dressed three hours in advanced. They put on all their clothes, sprayed their perfume and cologne, added their accessories, and headed out the door.

When the guy got to Benihana’s he sat there and waited anxiously. He asked the waiter for a bar seat. The waiter showed him to the bar and he sat down and looked at the door till he saw his date, dressed in a beautiful gown, walking through the door. He almost forgot to stand up and greet her, she was so beautiful. And too think he had landed this girl, he couldn’t believe it. He stood, gave her a hug, then sat down. They both were overly excited. They ordered their drinks, and had a little side conversation.

As they talked they actually began to realize how incompatible they were. He worked at a grocery store, she worked at a law firm. He didn’t want kids, she had three. She was a church going woman, he was twenty-five and didn’t know what the bible was.

What the guy didn’t know was that the girl had a horoscope that she checked everyday. On this day she was incompatible with Leo and Sagittarius, but was highly compatible with Virgo and Aries. So out of the blue she asked, “I don’t mean to be weird, but what is your sign”.

“I’m a Sagittarius”, he said.

And with that the girl said, “I’m sorry but I don’t sense any chemistry between us, so I’m just going to leave”. And without asking any questions the girl got up and walked out of the door, never to see the lonely bag boy ever again.