Sammy's Crush

Sammy’s Crush While standing in front of the store watching the girls drive away Sammy realizes that he might have not done the right thing. He looks towards the store and wonders if the crush he had on Queenie was worth the trouble he just went through. In the beginning of the story Sammy is just working his regular shift on a regular day of any week. You would think that he was satisfied with his job and everything that was going on. When three girls in bathing suits walk in; Sammy thinks that maybe these girls are coming in from the beach and he was right. Seeing the girls come in the store kind of woke Sammy up a little not taking his eyes off the girls and describing exactly what they were wearing. Having a customer in front of him, Sammy loses track of what he was doing and ends up on the wrong end of one of his customers. Sammy says, “I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not.” After Sammy calmed down the old lady, he returned his attention to the girls pointing out the direction they were walking towards unsure if they were what their intentions were.
While Sammy was focusing on the aisle they were currently in; he couldn’t help notice that the three girls were not wearing any shoes! Sammy describes the first girl, “There was this chunky one, with the two piece- -it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale”. As the girls are walking his attention goes to the second girl Sammy describes her as, “the kind of girl other girls think is very, “striking” and, “attractive” but never quite makes it.” As Sammy is still taking his sweet time to keep his eyes on the girls he gets to look at the third girl who Sammy describes as a, “prima donna.” Sammy sees that this last girl isn’t like the other two she is not paying attention to anything else in the store and walking around as if she owned the place. Watching these girls Sammy being a teenager and all pays