supermercato

So...I had an interesting afternoon at the supermarket today. On my way home from school I decided to stop at the supermarket to get some food for my apartment. First of all, the supermarket is located in the basement of oviesse (which is a clothing store like H&M). I hate walking into cute clothing stores cause all I wanna do is shop! I looked around for a bit then proceeded down the steps. I get in this tiny little grocery store and it's actually quite busy. It's all locals..I'm probably the only english speaking girl there. I'm looking around and kind of have an idea at what I want by the pictures..but everything is in Italian so half the stuff I have no idea what it is. I grab crackers, cheese and salami. Good snack food for between classes. I get up to the checkout line (only 2 of them are open) and it's packed. I am standing in line, probably about 10 people back with about 5 people behind me. All of a sudden, this older lady decides to cut in line in front of me! First she stands right next to me..then she kind of inches her cart in front of me and tries to "sneak" in. Excuse me lady..I'm right here..trying to sneak in front of me doesn't really work when I'm looking straight at you. She avoids eye contact..like if she doesn't look at me then I can't see her. Then, the guy behind me starts yelling at her in Italian and she eventually pulls out to the side. Then, my food is on the line with a divider between the girls food in front of me and my food. The cashier gets to the end of the girls food, moves the divider, and continues to ring the food up under the girls tab. I quick grabbed for it and we figured it out, but come on! Why do they even have dividers if the cashiers don't actually use them correctly?? Not to mention-the cashier is sitting down while swiping the food, so it's not like she has much to think about anyway! Another interesting thing about the supermercato...you have to purchase the plastic bags that you bag your groceries in. It's only .05 euros (like 10 cents), but what a good idea! I think we should take that as a lesson...America should enforce it as well...

well, I've had enough crackers, salami and cheese for now..time to walk the 2 miles back to school for Italiano classe!!