Microstory X - Awkward Twilight · 10:10am Dec 14th, 2018
It happened at a bookstore.
"Hello," said the clerk.
"Morning," Twilight mumbled back.
The clerk returned a strained smile back and then went back to work.
Twilight then realised in her half-tired state that it wasn't morning, it was the evening, the store was closed and it wasn't a bookstore, and the clerk wasn't there and she had been talking to a cardboard sign all this time.
Twilight carefully eased back the door and pretended she didn't just break into a bookstore.
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P.S. Something similar actually happened to me recently. The bus driver greeted me and I replied 'morning' but I was so embarrassed I just sat in the bus with red ears and pretended I misheard the bus driver... even though it wasn't morning.
Confusion. The base for fun stories.
I'm guessing she thought the door was sticking and she forced the issue.
I hate when that happens.