Kristina’s Reviews > Convenience Store Woman > Status Update

“… she again muttered, ‘This place really doesn’t ever change, does it?’ Actually, someone was eliminated from here today…” (73).

“A convenience store is a forcibly normalized environment where foreign matter is immediately eliminated. The threatening atmosphere that had briefly permeated the store was swept away, and the customers again concentrated on buying their coffee and pastries as if nothing had happened” (60).

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up…” (56)

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“But as I got older, being so quiet apparently became a problem in itself. As far as I was concerned, though, keeping my mouth shut was the most sensible approach to getting by in life.” (10-11)

“But subsequently everyone started hooking up with society, either through employment or marriage, and I was the only one who hadn’t done either.” (36)