"I'm sorry," Astrid said, as politely as she could, "but we're closing in a few minutes."
Alan nodded, and walked up to the counter with a bottle of lube. "Sorry," he replied. "You have quite a range here. It's not always easy to decide."
Astrid restrained the urge to grit her teeth. She disliked working the late shift at the pharmacy, particularly on Fridays when most of her friends had already started partying and were likely to already be drunk by the time she met them at the club... but that, she knew, was one of the drawbacks of being the newest and youngest employee. What particularly irked her was that while she'd worked hard to earn her pharmacy degree, most of her working hours were spent selling stuff that could have been bought from a large supermarket - or in the case of the condoms and lubes, from an adult bookshop. She waved the bottle over the laser scanner and glanced at the card Alan handed her. The small hologram on the card looked very bright and rather strange, almost like some sort of starry tunnel to infinity. She blinked, realising she'd been staring into its depths for several seconds, then tapped it to the paypass machine. Nothing happened.
"I'm sorry," Alan said smoothly. "That's just my ATM card. Here, try this."
She charged the purchase to his Amex card with a distracted nod, smiled as he walked out of the pharmacy with the lube, then locked the door behind him, feeling both relieved and slightly puzzled, as though she was forgetting something important. Had she neglected to give him his receipt? she wondered. Or something else? If so, what was it? Did I forget to smile, as the boss keeps telling me to do? Did I forget to say goodnight? Did I forget to ask him if he'd like me to suck his cock?
She blushed slightly, then giggled. So many men who came in did seem to expect that, especially if they had platinum Amex cards. The last customer hadn't seemed that arrogant, and he'd been polite and reasonably good looking, and he probably had a nice cock, long enough but not too fat to go up her arse easily...
She blinked, wondering where *that* thought had come from. She'd tried anal sex a few times, with a long-term boyfriends she'd dumped soon after she'd graduated, but she hadn't really acquired a taste for it...