That morning in their town's supermarket, under the bright lights and low AC, he held his place at the meat department waiting for his turn. Right in front of that long row designed to serve several customers in parallel, just like cattle on both sides of the counter.
His partner grazed his butt casually, kissed his right cheek, and left with the shopping cart to make some progress with the rest of their list.
The chatty and unhurried old lady in front of him finally finished. The clerk cleaned her knives against each other. Then she lifted up her black kitchen hat, with that thin net covering her black hair.
"Are you dealing with raw meat back there? Would you mind bringing me another package of ground meat?" she asked her coworker behind the counter too.
"You want me to touch my meat!? I already did at home this morning! HAHAHAHAHA" the other replied raucously.
That short, chunky lady made her blush with her unwarranted remark. With no time to waste, she turned back to him lowering down her sight in embarrassment.
"12 sausages, please." He said politely, then dropped his paper number in a little plastic box right by the ticket dispenser.
What a gentleman, the clerk thought. Not common in this blue-collar town. Cement factories, construction workers, and large plantations. Rude men and mean looking ladies always behind their smoky cigarettes. A simple please and thank you made a big difference. And for that, he turned her on like hell. Every time he visited the store she thought he was so suave.
There was something about this lady, his mind wandered bored like hell by these daily chores. Her sultry lips, deep glance, and shy-quiet ways. His girlfriend was the total package, so he had never found a need to flirt, but every time she had been her checker at the checkout and she had offered discounted stuff, for whatever silly reason, he had conceded hoping it would at least help her reach some sale quotas.
Master Butcher read a tag on her sleeve, right above her name, Selena. These big corporations, you never know... he thought, those evil corporate minds. She seemed proud about it though. In his mental kingdom of boredom, he thought that, what a pity, those ugly grocery store uniforms didn't let him sense anything her curves. He also thought why didn't it say Mistress? And then he hoped she'd made some kind of remark, so that he could use a joke he knew. "Two sausages on the grill, then one tells the other..." he thought going over it once and again.