Yesterday, I was in the city doing some work for an organization I am active with, and afterwards I went to the store across the street to buy some groceries before making the hour-long commute back home.

When I went to the cashier line in the store, the cashier was a woman that looked to be around my age, and she seemed interested in talking to me for whatever reason. We talked about Thanksgiving, which is tomorrow, unfortunately, she complained about her job, and I listened to what she had to say. She joked that my reusable bags smelled like gasoline, and she briefly mentioned her BF. She seemed to be more interested in chatting with me than the average cashier is…or person for that matter. Indeed, I said little, and she did most of the talking.

As I went out of the store, I thought I caught her watching me leave, but maybe I didn’t, I don’t know.

Perhaps I will visit the store again when I am in the city next in spite of the sucky groceries they have…

How can I tell if she was behaving like that because she liked me or if she was a cashier and was performing her obligatory nice chat with customers? I can never tell if someone like a cashier is being nice to me because they’re nice and being polite or if they like me?