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I walk into the pharmacy and see that there's no one at the counter. The pharmacy itself is divided in the middle by shelves, creating two halves; I realize that the pharmacist is on the other half and can even hear her doing something, probably assisting a customer. But that half isn't visible from the entrance, and vice versa.
I take what I need from the shelf, walk around the middle partition, and see a young, nervous pharmacist who is fiddling with some merchandise. Our eyes meet, and before I can even say hello, she turns pale and jumps almost to the ceiling, clutching her chest with a convulsive gasp. I notice that she has earbuds in – she probably didn't hear me enter. So, I stand there calmly, letting the thought sink in, and raise my hand with the item in it to eye level, to make it clear why I'm here, but the moments pass, and the situation doesn't improve. With each second, I feel the atmosphere becoming heavier, and there's no understanding in her eyes – at best, she's in a stupor, or even experiencing growing panic, and now I'm starting to feel uncomfortable too – who knows what she imagined in this situation, and what if she suddenly runs out of the pharmacy, calling for help? You might think that I looked unusual in this situation, but no – I'm just a regular, casual citizen; maybe I should get a haircut and haven't shaved in about three weeks, but my appearance isn't so strange that it would cause a problem, and overall, everything is within reason.
In the end, I nodded, smiled, and said hello, realizing that the pharmacist wouldn't come to her senses without additional encouragement, and I managed to bring her out of her catatonic state. After that, she mumbled incoherently, mixing up words and their positions in sentences, as if she was trying not so much to explain her reaction to me as to find a rational explanation for what happened to herself. I reassured her that everything was okay. Then I asked about a couple more items, and despite her generally calmer appearance, she couldn't find them right away, even though they were right in front of her, until I saw them myself and pointed them out.
I haven't seen such acting, even in blockbusters, from Hollywood multimillionaire actors. And she never took the earbuds out.