cute accent #5: on-demand performances
check-out boy (COB) #1: do you want paper or plastic? ( ‘bag’ is implied)
Wendy: I’ve bought my own (handing over an old tough bag)
COB #2: thankyou for bringing your own
COB #1: can you say a sentence?
Wendy: ? (raises eyebrows and looks at COB #1 over the top of my glasses)
COB #2: he likes your accent
COB #1: just say a sentence
Wendy: (silence, muses on how easily an ill-mannered boy can reduce a Wendy to being an on-demand producer of sounds for his pleasure. Luckily, I am not yet fully trained to perform vocal tricks on demand by strangers, I simply smiled and said) cheers (then walked away with my tough old bag full of cheese and beer)
