Happy Convenience Store Lady
I was at a local convenince store the other day-"convenient" means you pay $1.50 for a bottle of Diet Coke because you're too lazy to go to an actual grocery store where that same bottle will cost you 50 cents.
Anyway, as I put my items on the counter I noticed that the clerk seemed unusually happy. She was singing and smiling as she rang up my stuff and I thought "she's either the most grateful person in the country to have this crappy $7.25 per hour job or she's on something I WANT."
After I paid I said "Thank-You."
And she said to me "I Love You."
Swear to God.
It was an awkward moment.
How was I supposed to respond to THAT? Say "I Love You Too???"
Well I don't love her...I don't even know her...and I wasn't about to lead her on that way.
So I just laughed and made a speedy exit. I think I did the right thing, don't you?
Anyway, as I put my items on the counter I noticed that the clerk seemed unusually happy. She was singing and smiling as she rang up my stuff and I thought "she's either the most grateful person in the country to have this crappy $7.25 per hour job or she's on something I WANT."
After I paid I said "Thank-You."
And she said to me "I Love You."
Swear to God.
It was an awkward moment.
How was I supposed to respond to THAT? Say "I Love You Too???"
Well I don't love her...I don't even know her...and I wasn't about to lead her on that way.
So I just laughed and made a speedy exit. I think I did the right thing, don't you?
posted by Bemisdown at 5:43 PM
9 Comments:
I think you ought to have reached over and planted a Big Wet One on her lips!
or just started singing "What's Love Got to with it?"
Not that long ago I was having a really bad day at work when a friend called. We had planned to have lunch but I was just too pissy so we postponed...but as I went to hang up with him, I forgot who I was talking to just long enough to say "Yup, talk to you later, love you..."
There was a few seconds of silence...and then snorts of laughter.
It'll be awhile before I live it down...
cake,
The same sort of thing happened to me with my very gay ex recently.
It was either a drop-off or a pick-up with my girls, and he said to me "I love you."
We were all silent for a mortified moment and then cracked up laughing.
I explained to my girls later that I was "Simply Irresistable."
tex,
She's all yours.
The correct response is:
"Mom! You're embarrasing me!"
Clinky,
Well, I certainly HEAR that enough...might as well use the opportunity to say it.
The VAST majority of the emails that I sand are to my fiance. And they all end with 'xoxo'.
I have not sent any of these to my co-workers....yet. Nor have I sent any to my beer drinking sports boddies...yet.
But I worry about that day that I do, and I have to change my name and move to someplace that nobody can pronounce.
I always end my e-mail's to my buddy Carey with "Cuddle Loves & Kisses."
Long Story.
He is now a department head at an expensive private boarding school on Long Island, and I suggested he end all of his official coorespondence with staff, parents, administration etc. with "Cuddle Loves & Kisses."
I'm pretty sure he didn't take my advice because he still has his job.
By The Way.....
I'm having trouble posting because my blogger account is being retarded.
I'M not retarded. Not this time anyway. I'll figure it out. Maybe.
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