Summary

“You Go Into the ABC Store and the Saleslady Says” (109) consists of commentary made by a woman working as a cashier to her customer. The woman asks if the customer believes in ghosts and claims she sees one in her house frequently, standing at the end of her bed. She goes on to explain that her daughters never visit her and that she has moved her Alzheimer's-afflicted husband to a nursing home. She wonders if the ghost is her husband but she is too afraid to look at it. She then remarks on a woman singing a hymn outside the store named Miss Ann Ruby. When the speaker was a child, Miss Ann Ruby visited her classroom often to proselytize about Jesus. She says that when Miss Ann Ruby was a young woman...