Had A Minor Miracle Smashed To Pieces

I went grocery shopping earlier today and had a little mishap. When I've gone the few times before, I'd always seen people buying fruit or vegetables, you know the ones where you are paying by weight but today was the first time I did that. My minor miracle involves the cash registers here. In all the grocery stores (or at least this one that I've been to a few times) the employee sits down while they are swiping your purchases. There is the normal vertical barcode scanner and there is a bit of metal perpendicular to that that I assumed was the weighing machine thing like we have in the states. What was so miraculous about this to me was that the metal bit opens up and that's were the cash is kept. It just seemed so cool that the scale was the top for the cash drawer. Turns out they don't have scales at the registers here, whoops. I had to go take my bananas back to a scale and they have a screen where you have to find the item that you are weighing and it prints out a sticker that tells the employee how much you are supposed to pay, not quite so miraculous after all.

On a completely different note: this morning I saw this guy on the metro. I'm going to call him "Purple Scarf" because well, duh, he wears a purple scarf. I saw him last week too. He gets on at the same stop as me and makes the same connection at the same stop as me. The first time I saw him, we were in the same ... I just realized I don't know the word for it, maybe it's 'car' but the same segment on the train, anyway we were in the same one. I'm still get used to riding a train while standing up so I have to hold on to something while it is moving. And what really intrigued me about him is that he was just standing there, not holding on to anything, it's such a dorky thing to be intrigued by, well he's also pretty good looking, to me at least. Anyway, totally by chance, we ended up in the same segment thing on our second train. Oh and he gets off at the same stop as me. And I saw him again this morning. It was crazy! The chance that I'd recognize someone from a week ago and that they would be on the same train again. Awesome! Another funny/random thing: there is a newspaper printed for the metro, creatively titled 'Metro', but it is printed in two copies, one in French and one in Dutch. The french one, the title is in green and the dutch one, in blue. So you can tell someone's native language (or you can assume their native language rather) based on the color of the title on their newspaper. (Purple scarf had a green one!)