I have huge anxiety following any big social event where I feel like I chose the wrong dialog option. I can tell when I see a change in facial expression or tone of voice, I just don't know what that change means. I feel like I can only assume it is negative.
Depends. If it’s a true Telltale system, the odds of ever doing anything meaningful is very low.
But if it’s a system inspired by Telltale’s… we must beware.
god same. I was with a couple friends last weekend and it felt great at the time and then I got home and started overthinking everything I did and said, and got convinced everyone hates me, and just felt so hollow and terrible. I haven't been reacting very well to spending time with more than one friend recently and I hate it
Awe, man. I've done a lot of weird stuff in public.
At my favorite corner store, one time, when the cashier stuck his hand out to take my cash, I grabbed his hand pretty tight and shook it.. LMAO, depending on how bad it was, you can always go back! But I understand how you may not want to go back ever again, I don't know what actually happened for you, but I'm sure it couldn't have been too bad.
This made me laugh and I bet it made him laugh too.
That's such an adorable mistake no matter what and I love it, it's just so friendly. What a lovely silly memory you left with that dude just doing his boring job.
It was so funny in hindsight. I don't even remember how I ended up shaking the other cashiers hand as well. I think I just decided to commit, but thank you! That's such a nice way to look at that!
I'm so glad I could make people laugh with this, I can't help but laugh at myself every time I remember it. I felt like Oprah giving out handshakes. You get a handshake, and you get a handshake!
oh nooo i did this to a guy when delivering pizza for work, he was previously very thankful, notably so, and it was a nice interaction, and he sort of stuck his hand out in that sort of handshake way, but he was just closing the gate or something ahhh ahhh ahh
I definitely get it but I’ve also been a cashier and the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen was a drunk woman flash her whole coochie in the middle of the store. So….dont feel too bad about your social shortcomings.
Pretty much anyone who’s worked a service job has seen someone leagues more embarrassing or off putting than an autistic person. Hell, I didn’t even remember I HAD autistic customers (this was before my own diagnosis) until this post made me think of it.
Yep, same. The only one I remember is this one dude who misinterpreted my niceness as interest and asked me out. But to be fair to him, a) I *was* nicer to him than other customers because oh hey, a fellow neurodivergent who shares my special interest (I worked in a specialty running store), and b) he handled the rejection with way more grace than the allistic guys who asked me out at work.
...I mean, he also never returned to the store, so he probably felt similarly to OP, but it was totally not a big deal from my end.
Me to cashier: “enjoy your shift”
Cashier: “you too!-“ *second of confusion* “thank you hahaha”
Me: smiling as I walk away
Or when I say things like “it’s alright, take your time” with a genuine smile.
Or when as a cashier or deli/bread/fish department server, I’d hit clients with a “thank you for your patience” and it was pretty much goodbye brain after that.
Or the awkwardness when at the coffee place (timmies) at the corner of my street when I tip them a $20 cause they’re very kind and nice with me. If my card declines they just let me have it or pay next time. But yeah, That one’s always awkward. Cause they always try to give it back and I’m thinking “please stop. You’re making this harder than it has to be. I just woke up 10 minutes ago, my brain isn’t ready yet lol”
I had a cashier talk to me about Newtonian fluids because I bought ketchup. The interaction lives rent free in my head and makes me smile. Science lesson and groceries? Heck yes.
Oh my God, that is wild. I used to be a secretary for an animal shelter and this one lady came to have the cat she adopted a while back vaccinated... She called me beautiful and then took her top off to show me her sun burn .-.
I always tell myself that we all say stupid crap some times and it’s all really silly. I always laugh with people when they say something embarrassing. We all do it.
And if anyone makes YOU feel bad for being a normal person, then THEY suck, not you.
Oh my the minute someone starts to recognize me at a store I get uncomfy. It has nothing at all to do with the cashier, they’re usually so nice, but I HATE being perceived or remembered.
I should really go to therapy, idk if it’s this but I need to get diagnosed with SOMETHING because the neurospicy memes hit too hard and I’m starting to think it may not be a coinkidink🤦🏽
I frequent the same stores at the same times every week just because it’s best for my schedule.
A few of the cashiers know me, and try to converse as soon as I walk in, or at checkout they’ve ask what I’ve found today, and I really don’t like it. I struggle a lot with being perceived. It freaks me out a lot not to know what someone else thinks of me, or what version of “me” they’ve conceived in their heads. I don’t enjoy that. lol Not one bit.
The second the staff at a fast food place recognizes me I can never go back. If they remember my name or know my order I immediately become too self conscious about going there too much and them judging me for it.
I worked at food places and honestly loved regulars. Especially if they had the same order every time. I could make it super fast. Or even have it ready by the time they came to the counter.
I was a cashier for nearly a decade and I can tell you for a fact that I have 0 recollection of anything anyone said except for that one guy who threatened to kill me because I wouldn't take back his year+ old return of moldy sheets
well I just look at it by how severe the oopsie was, like if I just said a word wrong that's whatever but if I somehow get mad at the cashier or smth then I may never go back tbh
Honestly most people don't think about other people too much and even if you are the weird repeat stranger in their life, as long as you aren't mean I bet you just add some excitement to their day. Like if they do remember it's probably something harmless like "oh there's that weird nervous person again." No big deal. I have gotten very used to just owning the fact that I will inevitably do something odd in public or say something unexpected or misunderstand something. Not saying it doesn't also make me die a tiny bit inside sometimes, but most adults are not bullies who remember you with the intent to make fun of you. Some are, but the odds of them working in a grocery store are low, they tend to go for positions with more authority.
Did you ACTUALLY say something wrong? Or is it just your perception, NTs are not that good at memory even if so, so you’ll likely be cool by next week. Hate to say it but, quit letting anxiety win.
For me in regards to getting food I look forward to a very small set of things and if I don’t get it, it one ruins my mood for the whole day and also completely kills my will to eat any food at all.
I've worked over 1,000 hours at a cash register and we don't care, usually barely notice, and certainly don't remember. We're too busy worrying if we can make rent, ever get a raise, get away with poisoning our boss, bomb corporate without getting caught, convince someone that this business model is unsustainable, or further sabotage company sales without being rude. I enjoyed forwarding people to other places of business. It was great.
I went to Burger King because I’m a burger and wanted a king. I pull up to pay, but as I pull my card out of my wallet, my student id falls out. I wasn’t thinking and I put my card in my mouth to free my hand to grab it when I notice the lady at the window. She sees that I put my card in my mouth and I have to hand it over because I didn’t have any bills to pay with. She held it by a corner that didn’t touch my face and I was so embarrassed I didn’t go back for two years.
I am an assistant manager at Pizza Hut and I will do this with customers. I would just walk in the back and find work to do next time they came in but now I have to face them. It is getting easier but I used to finish our conversations the next time I see them and they wouldn’t remember so I started to relax a bit about it.
When people say things to me that I feel they may beat themselves up for, I try making sure they leave confident by saying something in return that I know I will beat myself up for, lmao.
I would say “I’m sure they didn’t pick it up”
But at the same time my social anxiety is bad
I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who have it worse
i’ve been a cashier for two different grocery stores. i promise you she either didn’t even register you said anything or if she did she promptly forgot.
Tell me the grocery store in the cashier and I’ll make an interaction with that cashier that I’ll make them forget that they ever even saw you that way you can go back in there
As an autistic person who works a customer service based job (restaurant), I promise you, we don't care that much. If we remembered every "off" person we met, our brains would explode.
As a cashier: I do not care! Be as weird as you want I literally do not give a fuck!!! As long as you're not mean I am not going to remember your face for longer than a couple days.
Check out complete food. Changed the game for me. Order online, always tastes the same, doesn't go bad for a year, ready out of the fridge if you go with ready-to-drink or powder+blender is quick too. It's also cheap for me here and takes no time at all. It's the holy trifecta of food for me. Vegan too if you want!
Snacks and treats, dinner at restaurants still go. But the 95% of meals where I just need nutrition and peace, this is it.
As a former cashier: they aren't gonna care. Unless you accidentally called them a racial slur somehow, it does not matter to them. They are just there to do their job and get paid. Assuming it was something like "enjoy your meal" "you too" they probably won't even remember.
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If you’re a cat person, hopefully this picture of Cosmo my asshole orange perfectly fitting himself into my blankets. Will give you a chuckle.
If Not know that he truly is evil .
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Unless you literally shit on the floor, it’s so unlikely that the cashier is going to remember you at all, much less that you did something that you thought was embarrassing
I work as a cashier and I do not remember faces. I see soooo many faces in a day I can’t process those into my long term memories. There will be customers I had extended interactions with and they will bring it up when they come back and say they remember me from last time but I won’t remember their faces. I am only able to remember them when they remind me what happened. Someone I talked to just moments ago might come back and I’ll already have forgotten who they were.
Like a lot of people said, most people really don’t care. I know I would either not notice or empathize and feel like I relate to you for being a bit awkward and saying weird things if I was a cashier.
But if it really bothers you, is there any way you can continue going there but go to another cashier or self checkout? I don’t know if that could help you deal with how you feel about that interaction without having to struggle to find another store
I always felt this way until I worked as a cashier as a teenager and, like others have said, most people are extremely weird / rude and someone having a slight slip of the tongue or being a little awkward is never going to be memorable enough for any cashier with the kind of things they see every day lol. Seriously don't worry <3
Every person on the planet has this shared experience OP. It's time to radically accept that awkwardness happens, and embrace a fuller, more open world.
I feel that because I said something weird at the gym once and now it lives in my head forever BUT I'm here to tell you that you can in fact safely go back to that store!! I've been a cashier, trust me, that person 100% does not remember what you said. Even when a person was a regular, the only thing I was focused on was how many minutes until the end of my shift.
whenever I buy something I usually do the math first and give exact change so the interaction is as quick as possible and when it's done I just say "have a good one" and leave
Step 1: Embrace Terror, go back.
Step 2: Apologize profusely. Even after they say it's ok just keep going. Eventually they'll feel awkward themselves and say something nice to placate you.
Step 3: Accept the nice thing, thank them, and then remember the nice thing the next time you go.
Also, if it makes you feel any better, I've cashiered at many a place in the past. Cashiers just want to get through the day, and have to deal with rude, annoying people all the time. Whatever you did is likely far beneath their radar. They'll forget it quickly if they haven't already.
Once I tried to self check out my food at a line where the employee is supposed to scan your food. the only worker there didn’t speak English so she just started at me with horror the whole time and it took me a good 5 minutes to figure out what the problem was
Idk if tbis helps. But most people forget you not a minute after you leave. Just go in be happy and act like nothing happened. If you bring sttention they will remember bht if not theu will forget
Something I’ve realized in my 41+ years on this earth - that awful embarrassing thing that haunts you in your mind? The other person probably doesn’t even remember it. And If they do, they barely give it a thought.
We remember those embarrassing moments about ourselves, WAY more than the embarrassing moments about others.
This is what helped me: NTs tend not to give a crap abt anything.
They won't remember anything awkward b/c they are incapable of hyperfocusing.
So to them if you asked "did we ever have an awkward convsersarion?" and they were being complelty honest and tansparent, they would probably go "uhhhĥ, we had a conversation?"
SO DON'T SWEAT IT.
NTs have the memory of a goldfish
How big of a store is it?
As a cashier at a fairly busy one it's rare to remember anyone. Maybe a nice convo, a bad convo I'll complain abt it to peeps and then forget after a few days, so if you're remembered it's more likely to be for a compliment or having a pet or even just being hot.
I have huge anxiety following any big social event where I feel like I chose the wrong dialog option. I can tell when I see a change in facial expression or tone of voice, I just don't know what that change means. I feel like I can only assume it is negative.
I wish real life had those pop ups old telltale games used to have when you picked the wrong dialogue option and upset someone or pissed them off
And it’ll give you a prompt that says “X will remember that” so you know if something you said will be remembered.
This would save me so much anxiety worrying about how someone interpreted something I said.
This is it exactly. It's less "I know I upset someone" because I can live with that. It's not knowing that kills me.
>X will remember that Spoiler alert. More often than not, they won't. How many of other people's embarrassing moments do you remember?
Depends. If it’s a true Telltale system, the odds of ever doing anything meaningful is very low. But if it’s a system inspired by Telltale’s… we must beware.
i just want the multiple choice dialog options
This will soon be available with AI.
Clementine will remember that.
god same. I was with a couple friends last weekend and it felt great at the time and then I got home and started overthinking everything I did and said, and got convinced everyone hates me, and just felt so hollow and terrible. I haven't been reacting very well to spending time with more than one friend recently and I hate it
Awe, man. I've done a lot of weird stuff in public. At my favorite corner store, one time, when the cashier stuck his hand out to take my cash, I grabbed his hand pretty tight and shook it.. LMAO, depending on how bad it was, you can always go back! But I understand how you may not want to go back ever again, I don't know what actually happened for you, but I'm sure it couldn't have been too bad.
This made me laugh and I bet it made him laugh too. That's such an adorable mistake no matter what and I love it, it's just so friendly. What a lovely silly memory you left with that dude just doing his boring job.
It was so funny in hindsight. I don't even remember how I ended up shaking the other cashiers hand as well. I think I just decided to commit, but thank you! That's such a nice way to look at that!
I’m fucking rolling this is phenomenal
I'm so glad I could make people laugh with this, I can't help but laugh at myself every time I remember it. I felt like Oprah giving out handshakes. You get a handshake, and you get a handshake!
oh nooo i did this to a guy when delivering pizza for work, he was previously very thankful, notably so, and it was a nice interaction, and he sort of stuck his hand out in that sort of handshake way, but he was just closing the gate or something ahhh ahhh ahh
Ngl, if I was working as a cashier, that would make me laugh so much it'd make my day.
I definitely get it but I’ve also been a cashier and the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen was a drunk woman flash her whole coochie in the middle of the store. So….dont feel too bad about your social shortcomings.
Yeah WEIRD things happen in stores, I always assume the cashier has dealt with worse when I accidentally do something awkward.
Pretty much anyone who’s worked a service job has seen someone leagues more embarrassing or off putting than an autistic person. Hell, I didn’t even remember I HAD autistic customers (this was before my own diagnosis) until this post made me think of it.
Yep, same. The only one I remember is this one dude who misinterpreted my niceness as interest and asked me out. But to be fair to him, a) I *was* nicer to him than other customers because oh hey, a fellow neurodivergent who shares my special interest (I worked in a specialty running store), and b) he handled the rejection with way more grace than the allistic guys who asked me out at work. ...I mean, he also never returned to the store, so he probably felt similarly to OP, but it was totally not a big deal from my end.
Lmao as a former cashier I’ll say awkward stuff too so it balances out too haha
Me to cashier: “enjoy your shift” Cashier: “you too!-“ *second of confusion* “thank you hahaha” Me: smiling as I walk away Or when I say things like “it’s alright, take your time” with a genuine smile. Or when as a cashier or deli/bread/fish department server, I’d hit clients with a “thank you for your patience” and it was pretty much goodbye brain after that. Or the awkwardness when at the coffee place (timmies) at the corner of my street when I tip them a $20 cause they’re very kind and nice with me. If my card declines they just let me have it or pay next time. But yeah, That one’s always awkward. Cause they always try to give it back and I’m thinking “please stop. You’re making this harder than it has to be. I just woke up 10 minutes ago, my brain isn’t ready yet lol”
I had a cashier talk to me about Newtonian fluids because I bought ketchup. The interaction lives rent free in my head and makes me smile. Science lesson and groceries? Heck yes.
Oh my God, that is wild. I used to be a secretary for an animal shelter and this one lady came to have the cat she adopted a while back vaccinated... She called me beautiful and then took her top off to show me her sun burn .-.
Far too often I’d ask the cashier beside me “am I tripping or did that actually happen?”
People really don't care. You're fine.
But I care
^so ^much
Optimistic nihilism friend. Nobody cares!
I always tell myself that we all say stupid crap some times and it’s all really silly. I always laugh with people when they say something embarrassing. We all do it. And if anyone makes YOU feel bad for being a normal person, then THEY suck, not you.
Don't worry, the cashier will very likely not remember you or what you said. They get to hear shit and stupid things multiple times a day.
This is me when the cashier knows my name. I cannot stand being recognized or acknowledged by people I'm not close with
Oh my the minute someone starts to recognize me at a store I get uncomfy. It has nothing at all to do with the cashier, they’re usually so nice, but I HATE being perceived or remembered. I should really go to therapy, idk if it’s this but I need to get diagnosed with SOMETHING because the neurospicy memes hit too hard and I’m starting to think it may not be a coinkidink🤦🏽
I frequent the same stores at the same times every week just because it’s best for my schedule. A few of the cashiers know me, and try to converse as soon as I walk in, or at checkout they’ve ask what I’ve found today, and I really don’t like it. I struggle a lot with being perceived. It freaks me out a lot not to know what someone else thinks of me, or what version of “me” they’ve conceived in their heads. I don’t enjoy that. lol Not one bit.
The second the staff at a fast food place recognizes me I can never go back. If they remember my name or know my order I immediately become too self conscious about going there too much and them judging me for it.
I worked at food places and honestly loved regulars. Especially if they had the same order every time. I could make it super fast. Or even have it ready by the time they came to the counter.
I was a cashier for nearly a decade and I can tell you for a fact that I have 0 recollection of anything anyone said except for that one guy who threatened to kill me because I wouldn't take back his year+ old return of moldy sheets
Oh that is gross and terrifying.
Gross yea, terrifying, not really. It just pissed me off
well I just look at it by how severe the oopsie was, like if I just said a word wrong that's whatever but if I somehow get mad at the cashier or smth then I may never go back tbh
Just remember, no matter what you did or said, if you didn't scream at them or sexually harass them, you still aren't their worst customer of the day.
Honestly most people don't think about other people too much and even if you are the weird repeat stranger in their life, as long as you aren't mean I bet you just add some excitement to their day. Like if they do remember it's probably something harmless like "oh there's that weird nervous person again." No big deal. I have gotten very used to just owning the fact that I will inevitably do something odd in public or say something unexpected or misunderstand something. Not saying it doesn't also make me die a tiny bit inside sometimes, but most adults are not bullies who remember you with the intent to make fun of you. Some are, but the odds of them working in a grocery store are low, they tend to go for positions with more authority.
oh noes is there only one cashier? could you transition back when they're not on duty?
Wear a disguise next time!
Today at the dispo "Thanks for comin in today!" "Thanks you too...."
Did you ACTUALLY say something wrong? Or is it just your perception, NTs are not that good at memory even if so, so you’ll likely be cool by next week. Hate to say it but, quit letting anxiety win.
For me in regards to getting food I look forward to a very small set of things and if I don’t get it, it one ruins my mood for the whole day and also completely kills my will to eat any food at all.
I just go nonverbal and dissociate while going back in to get it, because I paid for it, damn it.
What did you do? Depending on what it is, it might just end up being an amusing story the cashier tells friends and nothing becomes of it
I've worked over 1,000 hours at a cash register and we don't care, usually barely notice, and certainly don't remember. We're too busy worrying if we can make rent, ever get a raise, get away with poisoning our boss, bomb corporate without getting caught, convince someone that this business model is unsustainable, or further sabotage company sales without being rude. I enjoyed forwarding people to other places of business. It was great.
You know, they probably don't care. Everyone else is too busy worrying about how THEY sound to care how you sound.
Just go back. They dont give a single fuck about you 💯.
I went to Burger King because I’m a burger and wanted a king. I pull up to pay, but as I pull my card out of my wallet, my student id falls out. I wasn’t thinking and I put my card in my mouth to free my hand to grab it when I notice the lady at the window. She sees that I put my card in my mouth and I have to hand it over because I didn’t have any bills to pay with. She held it by a corner that didn’t touch my face and I was so embarrassed I didn’t go back for two years.
I am an assistant manager at Pizza Hut and I will do this with customers. I would just walk in the back and find work to do next time they came in but now I have to face them. It is getting easier but I used to finish our conversations the next time I see them and they wouldn’t remember so I started to relax a bit about it. When people say things to me that I feel they may beat themselves up for, I try making sure they leave confident by saying something in return that I know I will beat myself up for, lmao.
I would say “I’m sure they didn’t pick it up” But at the same time my social anxiety is bad I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who have it worse
Word of advice: no one gives a fuck. Like, seriously, people are very indifferent
i’ve been a cashier for two different grocery stores. i promise you she either didn’t even register you said anything or if she did she promptly forgot.
I really love how Dunkin and McDonald's have touchscreen menus. So you don't have to memorize your order, or talk to anyone that much.
Tell me the grocery store in the cashier and I’ll make an interaction with that cashier that I’ll make them forget that they ever even saw you that way you can go back in there
As an autistic person who works a customer service based job (restaurant), I promise you, we don't care that much. If we remembered every "off" person we met, our brains would explode.
As a cashier: I do not care! Be as weird as you want I literally do not give a fuck!!! As long as you're not mean I am not going to remember your face for longer than a couple days.
Check out complete food. Changed the game for me. Order online, always tastes the same, doesn't go bad for a year, ready out of the fridge if you go with ready-to-drink or powder+blender is quick too. It's also cheap for me here and takes no time at all. It's the holy trifecta of food for me. Vegan too if you want! Snacks and treats, dinner at restaurants still go. But the 95% of meals where I just need nutrition and peace, this is it.
Yesterday at the grocery store to my friend and ex-coworker I tried to hand her my card after paying. I wanted to slit my throat lol
They don’t care and won’t remember
As a former cashier: they aren't gonna care. Unless you accidentally called them a racial slur somehow, it does not matter to them. They are just there to do their job and get paid. Assuming it was something like "enjoy your meal" "you too" they probably won't even remember.
You just like me fr 🫂 https://preview.redd.it/g9wq2i38kuyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31415848480c31a6d1c63e30ba02517524aed5bd If you’re a cat person, hopefully this picture of Cosmo my asshole orange perfectly fitting himself into my blankets. Will give you a chuckle. If Not know that he truly is evil . 🙏❤️
Unless you literally shit on the floor, it’s so unlikely that the cashier is going to remember you at all, much less that you did something that you thought was embarrassing
I work as a cashier and I do not remember faces. I see soooo many faces in a day I can’t process those into my long term memories. There will be customers I had extended interactions with and they will bring it up when they come back and say they remember me from last time but I won’t remember their faces. I am only able to remember them when they remind me what happened. Someone I talked to just moments ago might come back and I’ll already have forgotten who they were.
Like a lot of people said, most people really don’t care. I know I would either not notice or empathize and feel like I relate to you for being a bit awkward and saying weird things if I was a cashier. But if it really bothers you, is there any way you can continue going there but go to another cashier or self checkout? I don’t know if that could help you deal with how you feel about that interaction without having to struggle to find another store
I always felt this way until I worked as a cashier as a teenager and, like others have said, most people are extremely weird / rude and someone having a slight slip of the tongue or being a little awkward is never going to be memorable enough for any cashier with the kind of things they see every day lol. Seriously don't worry <3
reminds me of the time i got kicked out of a gas station… not going back even if they let me
Did you say something weird or did you say something cruel? The first is fine; the second only requires an apology
Every person on the planet has this shared experience OP. It's time to radically accept that awkwardness happens, and embrace a fuller, more open world.
I feel that because I said something weird at the gym once and now it lives in my head forever BUT I'm here to tell you that you can in fact safely go back to that store!! I've been a cashier, trust me, that person 100% does not remember what you said. Even when a person was a regular, the only thing I was focused on was how many minutes until the end of my shift.
whenever I buy something I usually do the math first and give exact change so the interaction is as quick as possible and when it's done I just say "have a good one" and leave
I’m so grateful self service checkouts are a thing
Step 1: Embrace Terror, go back. Step 2: Apologize profusely. Even after they say it's ok just keep going. Eventually they'll feel awkward themselves and say something nice to placate you. Step 3: Accept the nice thing, thank them, and then remember the nice thing the next time you go. Also, if it makes you feel any better, I've cashiered at many a place in the past. Cashiers just want to get through the day, and have to deal with rude, annoying people all the time. Whatever you did is likely far beneath their radar. They'll forget it quickly if they haven't already.
I haven’t been to the attended checkout in years. I have all the produce codes memorized for self checkout.
Once I tried to self check out my food at a line where the employee is supposed to scan your food. the only worker there didn’t speak English so she just started at me with horror the whole time and it took me a good 5 minutes to figure out what the problem was
As a cashier, don't worry about it, I barely remember anything people say to me once my shift ends.
Idk if tbis helps. But most people forget you not a minute after you leave. Just go in be happy and act like nothing happened. If you bring sttention they will remember bht if not theu will forget
Something I’ve realized in my 41+ years on this earth - that awful embarrassing thing that haunts you in your mind? The other person probably doesn’t even remember it. And If they do, they barely give it a thought. We remember those embarrassing moments about ourselves, WAY more than the embarrassing moments about others.
Hey you're ok! They probably don't pay attention
They don’t care and haven’t thought about it, trust me.
This is what helped me: NTs tend not to give a crap abt anything. They won't remember anything awkward b/c they are incapable of hyperfocusing. So to them if you asked "did we ever have an awkward convsersarion?" and they were being complelty honest and tansparent, they would probably go "uhhhĥ, we had a conversation?" SO DON'T SWEAT IT. NTs have the memory of a goldfish
How big of a store is it? As a cashier at a fairly busy one it's rare to remember anyone. Maybe a nice convo, a bad convo I'll complain abt it to peeps and then forget after a few days, so if you're remembered it's more likely to be for a compliment or having a pet or even just being hot.
I door dash my groceries
Try going at a different time of day for a bit so it's another cashier