Yesterday I popped in at Checkers in Kloof street during my lunch break and as usual I selected my fruit and went to gone have the items weighed. As I approached the gent weighing the fruit and sticking his labels on the bags I saw a customer smiling to herself and then I clicked why. The gent who was weighing the fruit who has been working there for many years always has the same joke up his sleeve when weighing your items. I was so thrilled to see how this gent was making this girl giggle and smile. When you place an item on his scale eg: a banana he would look at it and say out loudly "What is this-this is a pawpaw". He would always call out the incorrect name of item deliberately to make you smile or react. He does this every day with all his customers to add some excitement to his day and even though I have encountered this many times with him I always amuse him and beat him to it where I place the fruit on the scale and call out the incorrect item which makes him smile.
I can only imagine how monotonous his job must be unpacking and packing fruit daily however he chooses to make it fun and make a difference to his day. We can all draw inspiration from him in some way.
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