Did my usual routine, two sprays of Shine behind the ears about an hour before the wife comes home so it has time to dissipate. Well, she gets home, long day, decides she wants to send me to get something to eat and pick up a few things from Wal-Mart. Okay, 20-30 minutes, see ya in a bit…
AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER…
Stopped by Wal-Mart first. I collect Hot Wheels Mustangs and motorcycles, so I always stop by the toy section to glance over the selection. Another guy, about 50, is also looking over the HW. He asks if I collect them too, and I told him that I used to collect all of them but now only collect the two types. That led into a rather lengthy conversation about cars, motorcycles, Hot Wheels and other random subjects. Half an hour later he’s interested in buying my (rather large) collection of Hot Wheels that I no longer want so we exchange information and I go back to shopping. Glad I didn’t swing by the ice cream section first!
Search around the store for the items on the list (her stuff, I have no idea where anything’s at) end up asking a clerk (female, caucasian, mid-late 20’s) where certain things are located. She’s very friendly and even tells me she likes my cologne. Considering I’m not wearing any, she obviously likes the Shine. Nothing overtly flirtatious, but definitely talkative and friendly, and took much more time answering my questions than normal.
Finally (!!!) make it to the checkout counter, the clerk there (female, caucasian, blonde, 18-19(?)) was also very friendly and talkative. I know customer service is important, but this is Wal-Mart during the 6pm madhouse. I compliment her earrings (silver wings) and she ends up chatting away not only until I’ve finished paying but even into the next customer’s transaction! At least she was a good multitasker…
Get the food (thank goodness for drive-thru, not sure I could have handled going inside) and on the way home realize I need to stop by the gas station. Unfortunately, it’s one I frequent and all the girls there know me…
Yep, you guessed it, conversation city.
All of these girls were Hispanic, early-mid 20’s and normally friendly in a “hey, how’s it going, here ya go, next customer” type of way, but one of them remembered I’m a bit of a computer whiz (just because I built my own computer and told one of them how to install her printer) so she was asking me all sorts of questions, then another girl IN LINE chimed in and asked me some more questions, meanwhile the people in the back of the line were NOT liking me…finally got away from there, cursed the gas pump for it’s slowness (if you’re going to charge me that much for regular unleaded the least you can do is be quick about it!), and finally made it home. I actually sat in the car for a minute so my neighbor could pass by without being affected by pheromones.
By the time I finally made it into the apartment, the food was cold, the soda was warm, I was slightly DIHL’ed from all the attention, and the wife was about to send out a search party for me!
Yeah, think it’s time to go au natural for a few days…
