Nostalgic Turns

This morning I walked down the Ave, the street filled with student-budget restaurants, bookstores, coffee joints. I also stopped into one of the University's cafeterias to get a breakfast sandwich. The lady at the cash register has always amused me. She has a quick patter when she's performing her transactions. She says the figure for the cost, the figure for change and then sometimes says "see you later" really quickly. It's always struck me odd that she says "see you later"--it seems like something a friend would say, or someone you knew better. It just didn't seem like the best tag line at the end of a business transaction. But, after going there time after time, she became right, and I would see her later.