Thank You

Recently, Yeni sent me to the grocery store to grab some milk for the bakery. So, like most people in the Sunshine State, I headed to Publix and went to the dairy case. A minute or so later, after fighting my tiredness and the tempation to buy a Twix, I slid my card through the reader and got ready to leave. When the cashier handed me the receipt, her words instantly awakened me. “There you go,” she said, with my receipt in her extended arm. “There I go,” I replied as I walked away. When exactly did “There You Go” replace “Thank You?” ...