Just An Ordinary Day: the Uncollected Stories of Shirley Jackson
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MELVILLE MAKES A PURCHASECharm, October 1951MRS. RANDOLPH HENRY MELVILLE was not accustomed to being kept waiting by a salesgirl. Mrs. Melville believed that salesgirls who were not at the moment waiting upon herself were standing at the other end of the counter gossiping with other salesgirls about the private life of the floorwalker, or engaged in secret transactions with other customers, no doubt involving special and unusually unobtainable merchandise. Now, ordinarily, it was adequate for Mr...s. Melville to rap sharply upon the counter and say “Miss!” Sometimes it was necessary, however, for Mrs. Melville to go up to the salesgirl and interrupt her private conversation with some cutting remark such as “How long do I have to wait for service here?,” emphasizing the service so that the salesgirl understood clearly, if she had not before, that she was there to serve Mrs. Melville, to obey her, to follow abjectly her orders, and not to stand around and gossip.This time—and it is to Mrs.
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