Paper or Plastic
by Vivi Barnes
Release Date: 02/03/15
Summary from Goodreads:
Welcome to SmartMart, where crime pays minimum wage...
Busted. Alexis Dubois just got caught shoplifting a cheap tube of lipstick at the local SmartMart. She doesn’t know what’s worse—disappointing her overbearing beauty-pageant-obsessed mother for the zillionth time…or her punishment. Because Lex is forced to spend her summer working at the store, where the only things stranger than the staff are the customers.
Now Lex is stuck in the bizarro world of big-box retail. Coupon cutters, jerk customers, and learning exactly what a “Code B” really is (ew). And for added awkwardness, her new supervisor is the totally cute—and adorably geeky—Noah Grayson. Trying to balance her out-of-control mother, her pitching position on the softball team, and her secret crush on the school geek makes for one crazy summer. But ultimately, could the worst job in the world be the best thing that ever happened to her?
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Oh those first jobs—sometimes we wanted to
poke our eyes out with a fork! Of course, working in a big box retail store
isn’t the worst thing in the world, but for a girl who had counted on spending
her summer playing softball and hanging out at the beach, it wasn’t exactly
ideal. Lex had a rocky start at SmartMart before she realized how great the
place really was. Isn’t that the way it usually works?
My second week of
work started with training in bagging groceries. It wasn’t quite as boring as
greeter, and at least I could use half a brain to sort out frozen items from
pantry items. Noah asked Ruthie to train me, and he never so much as looked at
me. I guess he was still mad. I couldn’t blame him.
Ruthie cackled
loudly every time I mixed items that weren’t supposed to be mixed. It made me
learn a whole lot faster, since I couldn’t stand the constant tee-heeing when
I’d get something wrong. And unfortunately, I seemed to get a lot wrong in the
beginning. Sometimes she’d take over and I’d watch her. One thing was for
sure—Ruthie could organize items into bags faster than anyone I’d ever seen.
All the frozen food together, boxes together—never a mistake like putting a can
on top of a loaf of bread like I did. But even the fact that Ruthie laughed
every time I’d screw up wasn’t the worst part.
No. The biggest
pain in the ass about this position was that I had to ask every single customer
if he or she wanted paper or plastic.
“Most places don’t
ask anymore,” Bessie had told me on my first day. “But at SmartMart, we want to
offer our customers every possible convenience.”
Convenience? Some
of the customers looked annoyed at even having an option. They’d sling their
environmentally friendly reusable bags at me, scowling as if the offer of evil
plastic or foul paper was offensive. I even stopped for a while, until Mr.
Hanson passed by once and said quietly, “Don’t forget to ask about paper or
plastic, Alexis.”
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Vivi Barnes is the author of Olivia Twisted and the upcoming release, Paper or Plastic. She was raised on a farm in East Texas where her theater-loving mom and cowboy dad gave her a unique perspective on life. Now living in the magic and sunshine of Orlando, Florida, she divides her time writing, working, goofing off with her husband and three kids, and avoiding dirty dishes. www.vivibarnes.com
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