T'was nice to see you

I think I might have offended someone when I was out earlier.

There I was in a queue at the cashier waiting for my turn to pay. In the background, I could hear a couple talking rather loudly behind me about how lecturers usually 'close one eye' when marking their students' work. I continued looking forward while trying to register whose voice it was. Two seconds later, everything seemed so obvious.

I turned around to check how accurate I was. Spot on. The man I would love to hate smiled in front of me. I initiated the conversation,

"I thought it was you."

His smile grew wider but with a pinch of sleaziness, as usual. He responded,

"You recognised my voice! That's so sweeeeet."

I just could not look at him in the eyes so I tried to distract myself by taking my purse out of my handbag while saying,

"Actually, it is quite, scary." (Honestly, it is!)

His sleazy smile disappeared so I quickly paid my bill at the cashier and wished him goodbye.