Chopsticks

Above: Harmons, Santa Clara, UT, shopping bags. 17 September 2022.

After finding no chopsticks in the paper plates, plastic spoons aisle, I asked a store employee where I could find chopsticks. She said, "in the pharmacy section." I paused, raised my eyebrows and queried, "why would they put them there." "I don't know," she said, "but that's where they are." I walked up and down the aisles of the pharmacy section and couldn't find chopsticks. Finally, I asked the pharmacist where the chopsticks were. He pointed to a section on one of the adjacent aisles. I walked over. Still, I couldn't find them. I told the pharmacist I still couldn't find them. "What did you say you want," he asked. "Chopsticks," I replied. "Oh, the pharmacist exclaimed. "I thought you said chap stick. You can find chopsticks on the other side of the store at the sushi bar." Sheepishly, I departed the scene, walked across the store, and picked up some chopsticks."