100,000 won check.

Went to our local supermarket to buy tomatoes to make my lunch sandwich.  698 won per 100g so 4 tomatoes came to over 6,000 won.  Only one checkout operating, a woman paying for a small purchase with a 100,000 won check. The checkout woman, otherwise helpful and seemingly rational, held the check aloft and examined it carefully in front of the light to ensure it wasn't fake.  Satisfied, she opened her cash drawer to deposit it and offer change,  her hand on a 50,000 bill.  The customer requested 10,000 won bills.  Checkout woman assembles 7 of them and carefully counts them, turns them over and counts them again, adds several 1,000 won bills to complete the change, then counts the whole lot again.  I wait with my four tomatoes and a bunch of bananas.  Finally she finishes, and I am through.  Pinky waiting at the door, a youngish female is kneeling patting her, marveling at her good behavior waiting for her master.  Master appears and the dog erupts into activity, woman momentarily tries to calm her then sees that "Appa" has arrived and surrenders her attention on the animal.  Pinky circles in her usual frenzy, I caution "wait," check the coast is clear, see no vehicles and indicate she can go. She bolts across the street to our lane and  follow, tossing the tennis ball as I descend the stairs.
Breakfast (cereal, sliced banana, soy-milk, Earl Grey tea, one slice of May Bell no-yeast grain bread with blueberry jam), make a cheese and tomato sandwich for lunch, deftly slipped into a plastic bag - "no the small ones are here," my wife changes the bags, change clothes, brush teeth, gulp medicine (anti-anxiety and cholesterol), wax hair, check briefcase contents, close down computer and modem, tie shoelaces, "See you tonight" when my wife emerges from the balcony and disappear down the stairs to Itaewon Station and eventually Hansung University.