Last night I was in Wal-Mart picking up some odds and sods with my eleven year old daughter. We got some sugar cookies, shop towels, Simple Green, toweling rags, some chips and some cosmetics for my daughter. We’re standing at the check out and there’s a guy and his wife behind me.
“Oh you managed to find the blue ones”, he says.
“Yes I did, they are way over in the far corner of the store”, I answered.
“Where?”, he says.
“Over in automotive, right over, almost diagonally opposite to where we’re standing now”, I answered.
“Oh, I’m not walking all the way over there”, he said.
His wife just stood there, looking bemused, and saying nothing.
We pay for our stuff and leave the store.
My daughter says to me, “What were you talking about?”
“What do you mean?” said I, “the guy was looking for some blue shop towels.”
“No he wasn’t” replies my daughter “he was looking for sugar cookies with blue icing, like the ones we had. His wife was just looking at you, like you were out of your mind.
”
There I go, thinking like a gear head again.
“Oh you managed to find the blue ones”, he says.
“Yes I did, they are way over in the far corner of the store”, I answered.
“Where?”, he says.
“Over in automotive, right over, almost diagonally opposite to where we’re standing now”, I answered.
“Oh, I’m not walking all the way over there”, he said.
His wife just stood there, looking bemused, and saying nothing.
We pay for our stuff and leave the store.
My daughter says to me, “What were you talking about?”
“What do you mean?” said I, “the guy was looking for some blue shop towels.”
“No he wasn’t” replies my daughter “he was looking for sugar cookies with blue icing, like the ones we had. His wife was just looking at you, like you were out of your mind.
”There I go, thinking like a gear head again.
