Old Man Comes to Store with Grocery List for Wife, Cashier Later Learns He Doesn’t Have a Wife at All — Story of the Day

A grocery store cashier decides to check on an old man who frequently buys groceries for his wife when he doesn’t show up one week. She discovers that he doesn’t have a wife to buy groceries for at all.

Emma enjoys her job as a grocery store clerk. She’s been working in the same store for years, and she knows all of her regular customers.

Every week, an old man named Roger would come to the store to buy groceries. He would have an extensive list of things to buy, including the ingredients needed to make chicken pot pie.

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“You must really love your chicken pot pie, Roger!” Emma commented once after she helped him pick out the ingredients for the nth time.

“Oh, yes I do, Emma. You see, my wife Laura makes the most delicious chicken pot pie in town,” he replied.

Emma smiled, finding it sweet that Roger would indulge himself in his wife’s delicious home-cooked specialty every week. What Emma found strange, however, was that she’s never met Roger’s wife as she never came by to the store with him.

What made Emma even more curious was that Roger lived just a street away from the grocery store, and yet she’s never seen Roger’s wife enter or leave the house in all the years that she’s worked there.

Nonetheless, she brushed the thought aside and bagged Roger’s groceries once they finished gathering them. “See you next week,” she said as she handed the bags.

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“See you next week, Emma!” Roger replied like he always did every single week.

However, the next week came, and Roger did not come by the shop like he always did on a Saturday afternoon. Emma thought this was weird. He never missed a grocery shopping session before.

She waited another day, and still, Roger did not arrive. She grew concerned, especially since Roger did say “see you next week” when they last saw each other.

After Emma finished her shift, she decided to check on Roger. As his house was nearby, it was easy for her to walk there.

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When she arrived, she rang the doorbell, but nobody came to the door. “Roger?” she called out.

Emma paused for a moment, but no one came to the door. She was about to turn and leave when she suddenly heard a large cough coming from inside the house.

Emma took her chance and twisted the doorknob. It was unlocked. She let herself in and called out for Roger again. “Roger? Are you here? It’s me, Emma, from the grocery store,” she said.

“Emma,” she heard Roger say from a room. The sound sent shivers down her spine, but she decided to walk toward the room.

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She saw Roger lying on the couch, looking weak and pale. “Roger! Are you alright? Where is your wife?” Emma asked.

Slowly, Roger turned his head towards a table in the same room, and Emma followed his gaze. There, she saw an urn with the photo of Roger’s wife right beside it.