Being an art student, you tend to buy odd things that seem to other people who don't understand that it is of course for a clearly normal please-don't-call-the-police reason, a little strange. Hence weird looks. That I have clearly never received... To the point. This being my situation, explains why in my hand I had three precious items that I wanted, scratch that, NEEDED to buy:
1) A very large bag of table salt.
2) Another very large bag of table salt.
3) A four packet of hot cross buns.
(Clearly I needed something to eat all that salt with! Or at least that's what the cashier must have thought as I placed my items on the conveyor belt.) Needless to say, as she beeped my items and tentatively asked for the amount that's what she thought.
But at least it wasn't as bad as that time that I asked my hairdresser for the hair on the floor. But that's a story for another time.