10 January 2018, Wednesday

37th Ave. Hickory‐smoked peanuts (not tasty enough to compensate for how salty they were), salami, cheese ends and pickled beets from FD. The okay night manager was there (as he had been on a previous recent visit of mine but unmentioned). My smartphone ran out of power, preventing my documenting the two cute young male S. Asian–looking customers I noticed while I was on the cashier line. As there were no strawberries in FD, I bought them instead for the same discount price (two pounds for five dollars), along with cottage cheese, at F’town (23:43). This was likely the night the dark शाह/شاه worker and I smiled at and greeted one another through the window as I passed. Despite buying reasonably healthful foods at the supermarkets, some evil spirit made me check in DR, after I’d used their a.t.m. (23:48), to see if they had discount Christmas sweets, and they did, so I bought their winter holiday trail mix and peppermint/milk chocolate pretzels (23:53). (The employee number 300 is apparently shared among the various overnight workers.) إشتياق was there socializing with a handful of cute S. Asian friends but none as handsome as he.