I was almost hypnotized by the Safeway checker's tales of shoe shopping

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Just came back from two client meetings. Deposited a check from one of them, and went to Safeway for a couple of things before heading home.

I was stuck in the express line behind people trying to unlock the mystery of using the keypad to make their purchase ("No, press here...")

Suddenly I heard a voice. "Sir, there's no waiting down here."

So down there I went.

She was C-U-T-E.

She asked "So how's your day going so far?"

I said "interesting." She laughed and said "Mine too. Going shoe shopping on payday is never a good thing."

I laughed and said "Uh oh."

She then went into an enthusiastic description of not only today's shoe shopping but a previous excursion when she had to get shoes for a reception, and she went online, and found them for $60 less than the store she was going to buy them from, so she bought two pairs, and they were really cool shoes, and...

...so I asked "are you wearing really cool shoes RIGHT NOW? Let me see," and leaned over the counter a bit. She laughed and said "No, but I WISH!"

...so my mind starts to wander, and all of a sudden I'm mentally transporting myself to Macy's, where I'm her boyfriend and she's been trying on shoes for like six hours and I've already mentally pictured her in nothing BUT the shoes, and...

...I took my receipt, came home, and here I am.

Shoe shopping. It's the glue that binds the human experience.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. But what a great little story

you could make out of that. You said she was cute. Are you in her age range? See my problem is on the inside, from where I see it,things like that are wonderful and set my mind in motion. But I forget they are looking at a grey bearded guy with wrinkles and then my bubble is burst........

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I pass the "not a grey bearded guy" test

Close enough in the age range. Not her dad. Maybe her older brother, but in a way that Greg Brady was Marcia Brady's older brother, so if they made the beast with two backs, it would only be wrong on paper.

:spray:

The only reason I left things as they were was that I've had one too many retail encounters where I was told that being friendly to the customer is part of the job.

I mean, she works in a supermarket. Gotta be boring to a degree. And as DUers who have seen my photo know, I am one handsome son of a bitch.

:spray:

But I was in a good mood because I just got paid, and she was in a good mood because she had some money on her pocket and was gonna go buy shoes, so we were just two good-looking people who were in a good mood and felt like flirting.

Sometimes that's all it is, ya know?

:rofl:

[AsahinaKimi]

3. One of the things I remember when I was a kid

Was the jingling sounds of coins in my dad's pockets when he came home. It always seemed like, when there were coins in his pocket, he was happy. On days when He was not in such a good mood there were no jingling sounds. So...


When he came home, and he was sad, I would give him fiver quarters to put in his pocket, to make the happy sound. I think it made him feel better.

[Yavin4]

4. She Wants You, Big Time

Go for it!