I said to myself, it's so hard to find this “little gray jar” (A&P 115). So I approached the younger looking worker, the one who had been checking me out since I entered. So I go to my admirer, who seems nice, and hand him the “herring snacks” (A&P 115). Pay time came quickly, so “I took my money out of my bathing suit top” (A&P 116) and handed it to this young man. Just as I was about to walk away from paying, an older man approaches me and my friends. Obviously it wasn't the delivery man or the meat cutter, but obviously the manager. I wondered if he was there to stare at us too, but the look on his face gave me a different answer. The words that came out of his mouth were “Girls, this is not the beach” (A&P 116), it wasn't a long statement but it kept playing in my head over and over like a broken record. I was so embarrassed at that moment and I didn't know what to say to this man. So I could only think of one thing and tell him in my "surprised voice" (A&P 116): "My mother asked me to get a jar of herring snacks" (A&P 116). After repeating once again "But this is not the beach" (A&P 116), the man said: "It's fine" (A&P 116). Which makes me even more so