Store Happenings

I love interacting with complete strangers, there's no pressure on the brief encounter (unless, of course, they make you nervous with their attractiveness). Anyway, I thought I'd share some of my favorite encounters with people I've only ever seen once in my life:

While I was working at Mervyns (years ago) this jewish couple came into the store (I think they were buying some pants for the husband), but as they were purchasing whatever it was they were purchasing the husband reads my nametag and says, "that's not a real name..."

to which I replied, "yeah it is."

So he asked "how do you say it?"

"Elspeth"

Then he turns to his wife and says with a glint (or apple if you prefer) in his eye, "our next daughter..."

But the funny part is when his wife replied, "tell her how old I am and how we're not going to have any more children."

That seemed the end but as they were walking out I heard him say, "she said it was a real name..."

"David!"

"she said it was a real name..."

Next, just recently, when I went to Barnes and Noble (you probably remember the book buying frenzy) I was just browsing through the store when I heard one of the clerks say, "Get me off this crazy little thing..."

To which I replied, "...called love."

He then chuckled and said, "I love that."

And while he was walking away he said, "It's like an orange on a toothpick!"

If you haven't seen So I Married an Axe Murderer then you won't get this reference, but I was really happy that I decided to complete that sentence.