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I bought three grocery items at the world’s largest retailer recently, and when I placed them on the checkout counter the cashier reached under the counter for a tissue and then blew his nose on it.

Nearly off!

I don’t want to get gross here, so let me just say that he was very good at what he was doing.

As if to prove it, he laid the tissue down on the side counter—unfolded, like an open-face, uh, sandwich—then picked up and scanned my items and put them in a bag.

I started to complain at that point, but he had such a momentum going, a rhythm in what he was doing, I just got caught up in it. Plus, he was bigger than I was and he was wearing a WWJD bracelet.

Before I could even think straight, I’d flashed him a fresh new twenty, which he picked up with the bracelet hand while grabbing the used tissue-in-waiting off the counter with the other.

This time he blew so hard his ears spun very, very fast and he levitated. He must have sensed it because he quit blowing, his “propel-ears” slowed down and he landed.

He pulled several bills and some change from the cash drawer and handed them to me folded in my receipt, germs and all. I didn’t know what to do.

I started to ask Jesus, but I wasn’t the one with the bracelet. I felt out-numbered.

I didn’t want to touch anything in sight–either up wind or down.

I hooked one finger under the plastic bag loops and headed for the door . . . out into the sunshine, which I think, is supposed to kill germs.

Then driving home it hit me—I remembered why I was at the store in the first place. It was to buy two breads and a milk for my mother-in-law.

That’s right. THEY WERE HER GROCERIES, NOT MINE.

HOLY SMOKE WAS I RELIEVED . . . . all that worrying about germs for nothing!

Until I remembered the money in my jeans.

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Originally posted by Happy-Card-Dealer:

The germ killing sanitizers are no help, that stuff is part of the problem. It weakens the human immune system making us more vulnerable for even the most normal of germs, germs that the human body is normally more than capable of handling.