Hi, Billi. I use to have a fear of riding buses (didn't think when I rang the bell at my stop to get off that they'd stop the bus, they'd be angry with me for wanting that) and pumping gas at a gas station I'd never used (they'd get angry, tell me I wasn't supposed to be there) and lots of other buying like that. I didn't like deli's or buying food alone, as you say, either, they might laugh at me or not let me.

Lots of therapy and getting to know myself and making myself do these things anyway and observing that what I feared never happened got me over 99% of such fears. Even if I am anxious today I can just do it anyway and concentrate on what I want rather than the other people I am afraid of. Concentrate on how it will taste when you get it instead of their being angry and not giving it to you; that doesn't generally happen so I just "think of something else" especially something I'm doing after I order (eating :-)