Spare Change
more red girls fluff
It was another day in the warehouse of a decor store. Yuuko was busy stocking the interior decor section with some small ceramic statues of owls. They were cute in her eyes, but the sheer amount of trash made by their unboxing was beginning to grate on her nerves and in her mind all that negativity was directed at the manager that had assigned her to the task. As both motivation and a distraction from such things, she started humming a few songs as she continued the task at hand. It wasn’t long before she was seriously into it and started dancing a tad as her volume slowly increased.
“Hehe, excuse me, could I get some help?”
The clerk froze mid-stride and slowly turned to the giggling woman down the aisle from her. She quickly dusted off the styrofoam pellets and closed the gap between them.
“Yes! How can I help you?” Yuuko asked
“I’m looking for some wall art and a mug or two. Could you tell me where I might find them?”
“Yes.” Yuuko responded. “If you go back towards the main isle, you’ll want to head straight bacck toward the corner and for like five rows there’s nothing but art. The canvas arts are along the walls and the framed arts are in the last few rows before the wood arts. For mugs and any other dishes, continues straight down the main aisle--or along the wall--and you’ll find them in the aisles in the corner past the rugs. Did you need any other assistance?”
“Oh no, you’ve been quite helpful. Thank you.”
“No problem ma’am, I’ll be here if you need me,” Yuuko stated
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
And with that the woman with the vibrant pink hair walked off to continue her shopping trip.
Yuuko slumped against the shelf when she was alone again, completely mortified that she’d been caught while trying to ward off boredom. She couldn’t believe she’d let her guard down that much only to be caught so easily. In a fit she finished up the remainder of her work and walked the trash back to receiving. By the time she’d set the box aside her walkie had gone off and requested her assistance upfront.
“Great, now I have to deal with this because whoever’s up front can’t do their job right...” Yuuko complained
When she arrived to the checklane she was a little surprised to see that the call was legitimate as the line had upwards of five people with full carts, and more slowly trickling through the “temptation” part of the aisle. She hopped behind the register near the door and signed into the system so she could begin to assist the customers.
The process of shrinking the line went rather smoothly. While her coworker was taking a more leisurely pace, Yuuko put her high energy into scanning and bagging as fast as she could so she could get back tot the floor. After about four customers, a familiar flash of pink wandered into the girl’s point of view.
“Hello again.” Yuuko greeted
“Hello, and thank you again for all your help.”
“Find everything ok?” Yuuko asked as she continued to scan items.
“That I did. All thanks to your good advice.”
“Um, did you want to sign up for our email listing? They’ll send you a 10% off coupon for you next visit.” Yuuko said
“Hm... Sure, why not?” The lady said as she finished filling out her payment on the card reader. “Could you hand me that pen?”
“Huh? Uh, yeah...” Yuuko said as she complied. “But you do know that you’re supposed to do that online, right?”
The lady returned the pen along with the slip she’d torn from the wrapping paper and then grabbed her bags.
“I figured as much, but that’s for you. Have a nice day, Koko~”
“Have a nice day...” Yuuko said with a slight trail
She looked down at her hand to see that the slip of paper was a note.
“You were cute when you were dancing earlier. Let’s get together sometime. I’m free after 7, call me.”
The girl glanced down further to see a flirty face emoji next to a string of numbers and shoved the paper into her pocket out of embarrassment. She couldn’t believe how smoothly she’d been flirted with and her cheeks burned as she continued to check out others.