Hit the green button!!!

I went shopping today.. in the market I got in line behind two shoppers, well actually three, but two were together so... Anyway... there was a man and his son in line, another older rather dowdy looking man and then myself in line. The older man only had one item so the other man and his son let the older guy go first... Well evidently he was down on his luck because he had a roll of pennies and some loose change to pay for his package of oatmeal rounds.. The clerk became visibly upset for some unknown reason. Maybe he didn't want to count the pennies. Who knows. When the transaction was finished the down and out fellow turned to us and thanked us for waiting... which I thought very nice. Didn't bother me to wait and evidently didn't bother the man and his son either. So then they checked out and the clerk began ringing up my purchases. I slid my card and followed the instructions.. it was hard for me to see the little box because I'm short and wear trifocals.. have to stand on my tiptoes. The clerk said something and I didn't hear him.. I said, "I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said."... he took a great deep sigh and said in a very loud, angry and demanding voice..." HIT THE GREEN BUTTON!!!"... I heard him and so did many others in the store... "What?" I said, "You want me to HIT the green button?".... "YES YES YES," he repeated, "HIT THE GREEN BUTTON!!"... so I did. I reached up and whaled the hell out of that poor innocent green button. The little box almost fell off.. The clerk never said a word. I smiled, said thank you and walked out of the store feeling very proud of myself..

J