Monday, September 17, 2007

Odd Encounters - #1

As I was leaving the produce section of Kroger today (this is where you take note of my healthy shopping habits), I stopped my cart abruptly before a head on crash with a seedy looking man, who's picture I would imagine being posted on the Sex Offenders Registry.

“Ladies first,” he said politely.

“Thank you,” I smiled and proceeded.

“Want to hear a story?” he asked from behind me.

“Um, sure?” I sensed this was a rhetorical question and the story was coming just the same. I stopped and turned around.

“There is this young girl who works in my office with me. One day we had a similar thing happen and I let her go first. She didn’t say ‘thank you’ like you did. You know what she said?”

The suspense was killing me. I nodded.

“She said, ‘you’re awesome sweety'.”

I stood there with a blank look on my face, obviously confused.

“Did you want me to say ‘you’re awesome sweety’ instead of ‘thank you’,” I asked.

“No, no. I just thought you’d like to hear a story.”

Huh. I think I’m still confused.

2 comments:

Allison said...

Wow--I cant stop laughing. I am going to need a description of this person when you get home! I thought you were over picking people up--that is what you get for being so polite

Anonymous said...

Hee! Hee!! That was super funny! You didn't give him your number, did you? Just kidding...