Monday, April 25, 2011

Grocery Store Fairy Tale

When I go to the grocery store it's usually an in n' out kind of situation. I know what I want... I get it, I leave. But today I got held up because the pharmacy was taking forever with filling my prescription, so I spent my time moseying around.

And as I was moseying I noticed that time spent in the grocery store with me is not normal. I shop erratically, zipping from one side of the store to the other. I tend to crash my cart because I like to do wheelies, and with my new toe shoes I've started walking on my toes, trying to train my muscles for when I go running.

So basically I look like a drunk, head bobbing, pterodactyl searching for sustenance.

On top of all of this I am, apparently, too nice to the grocery store employees. I talk to them, I smile and, like all roads paved with good intentions... it gets weird (or something like that).

The past couple weeks I have began to befriend the little fellow who runs the self check out line. A friendly little guy, indeed. We chat of his brand new, 3 week old, baby and his girlfriend. 





I have a friend.

And not only do I have a friend but talking to him allows the self check out to go faster, when that damned recorded voice goes "the self check out person has been notified to assist you" I get assisted the fastest!

But, in addition to both of us chatting it up when I see him I had, unwittingly led him to believe I was interested, unwittingly led him to believe that I was Dee-Tee-Effe. I don't know exactly what did it... I usually go to the store like this:

But here I stood, innocently scanning over the new movies when it happened.

He kind of... sidled up to me, it was one of those things where you feel them looking before you see them. But, there he was.... waiting to talk to me...

And there I was. Clueless.





Where he then proceeded to ask if I wouldn't mind being his "Hook-up buddy"

I'm not sure where this:
 
Got translated to... THIS:

damn... he was classy wasn't he? I shoulda said yes.....

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Rock Bottom

You know how alcoholics and drug users have to hit rock bottom before they can turn their lives around? They have to end up in a gutter face down in a pool of their own fluids.


Today a cookie fell out of my shirt.

I don't know exactly how it happened.... I had pulled out the rest of the cookies from the bag and set them on my chest while I was laying down and watching T.V. online.

Very convenient, if you ask me. I guess my A.D.D. got the better of me because I got up and, I don't even know what I did, but I was gone an unjustifiable amount of time. My Cha's Cha's held this bad boy in there good an long. Anyways, I came back to watch Jersey Shore on my computer (yes, I'm classy) and I started to feel the movement of something coming down my shirt by the forces of gravity.





I began to ponder the many different things that it could be. 






And in those split seconds where this all went down I was. I was very scared.

If you ask my past roommate of four years, she'll tell you. Jump out at me? Nothing. Someone gets punched out at a party? I run over and put him in the recovery position. But a bag flailing in the wind will send me running. A knock at the door will make me jump beneath my sheets and hide.

This was no different. An unidentified downward moving object in my shirt cannot be anything good.

But then it was.

It fell out and I laughed.....

and then I ate it.

And you would think that this would be Rock Bottom for me, but it wasn't. There will, undoubtedly, be more times when I have food fall out of my shirt, hopefully it's always as sweet as a cookie.

Hopefully.....