So today I went to Kroger to buy food....it is something I have put off long enough but had become necessary because the only thing left to eat are my roomates, and none of them have been farm raised. So I go to kroger and get the necessities: meat, drinks, meat, milk, toothpaste, contact solution, and meat. After finding these items and playing a small amount of bumper-buggy with a few of the other customers I readily proceeded to the counter in order to pay for said items. Isle 6 seemed to be the least busy. Behind the counter was a nice lady who looked wearied from the day of helping east Texans stock up for what could be a bad freeze, which translates into possible ice overnight that might continue until midmorning tomorrow. I walked further down the counter as she started scanning my first items and greeted her with the usual, "How are you today?" "Good, and you?" she replied. "Oh, I'm good...hungry, but good." After this magical conversation she finished up with my items and instructed me to swipe my card, which I had already removed from my wallet. I being the incredible genius that I am looked at the picture guide of which direction to swipe my card and inevitably got it wrong. The picture gave instructions to swipe the card with my name and the 16 numbers that remove money from my account facing upwards. I ingeniusly had swiped with this side facing down. Undoubtedly this is an occurance that happens many times in the day to which the nice cashier look at me and simply stated, "Strip down"...... Now I am perfectly aware that she was referring to the magnetic strip on every form of plastic payment, but where would the fun be in dismissing it? I froze in place and gave the woman a cofused and slightly trouble look. She looked back at me equally confused. Without realizing the connection I had made she repeats her previous statement, "...Strip down." I calmly reply "Is this a common request?......or what?" I begin to imagine that either I was mistakenly in an airport and now being searched due to my large ammount of meat I was trying to take on board, or maybe in fact Kroger has a new special in which they offer a free physical when you buy a certain ammount of beef products. Regardless, the cashier finally relizes what I am saying and starts laughing. She now is smiling and finishes her job of telling me how much I saved with my Kroger card and telling me to have a nice day. I do wonder though if I would have saved more if I had completed her request... | 
