QotD: Boxing Week Sales

I've done a few tours of duty behind a cash register. The job takes your soul, twists it like a wet chamois and runs it through the shredders they use to turn car hoods into tinfoil strips. [. . .] When I lived out east, the relationship between cashier and customer was the same as that between a German gunner and the troops disembarking at Normandy.

James Lileks, "Backfence: Beyond new store's hype, genuine smiles", Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2004-08-03