Cashier Monologue

Lights, camera, action! “Hello. How are you?” “I’m fine. Thank you. How about you?” I’m fine. Thank you. “I’m fine, too. Thank you.” I was hoping that the cashier would say something different, but I let out a light sigh as she only repeated the overused script. I was hoping they would burden me with excessive information about the recent death of her cat or tell me how her day was going lovely because her boyfriend just proposed to her. Something as trivial as her investing in a 25 cent goldfish would have perked my attention. However, she just continued to scan my makeup products with only the beeping of the scanner to fill the silence. As the cashier scanned my mascara, I glanced at the other cashier and customer beside us as they were ringing up their products. Their script was different; it was a script with blank lines, no smiles or barely a glance at each other. Her cashier seemed harsher and more distant as she continued to work in silence. It made me grateful the one in front of me was the polite one. I labeled the cashier’s character as polite over an ordinary discourse that occurs between almost every retailer and consumer simply because she was respectful and acknowledged me, unlike the second cashier with her customer.
Amiably speaking
The function of polite speech used by retailers is a simple method that makes them viewed as considerate and thoughtful by the consumer. Created by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson, The Theory of Politeness can also express this idea with the ability to express the regulation of social distance,the amount of which people are willing to accept and associate with others, by using polite or impolite speech. According to Brown’s and Levinson’s findings, the speaker can use the social skill of politeness to make everyone in a specific social environment feel agreeable while “increasing sociability and decreasing social