'"Checker on seven!" and back between the checkstands unloading the wire carts, apples three for eighty-nine, pineapple chunks on special, half gallon of two percent, seventy-five, four, and one is five, thank you, from ten to six six days a week; and he was good at it.'
First sentences of Ursula Le Guin, The Beginning Place.
Started September 9.Image attribution: "Fish Market" by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1568. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Link