Overheard at Walmart.
Apr 7th, 2007 by Kate
On Thursday night when I got into town, I stopped off at the parent’s house, threw the cat into my bedroom and ran off to Walmart to get a litter box and some litter so the cat would have a place to go. It wasn’t that late, only 11, but all the crazies in this small town were at the store.
It took me all of two minutes to run in and grab what I needed but as it always is with a “short trip” to Walmart, I ended up waiting in line for longer than it took me to grab my stuff. There were only 4 lanes open and the people in front of me were doing their Easter shopping so they had all sorts of baskets and bags of candy in their shopping carts. I wasn’t amused. Then I noticed the 10 items or less sign on the tobacco line.
This is where the story gets good.
I got in line behind a man who was talking to the baby in the cart that belonged to the woman in line in front of him. She was putting her items on the belt because she was the next up. She finished and turned around to pick up her conversation with the man talking to her child. She said that he looked familiar and asked what high school she went to. Turns out they went to the high school, he was a year ahead of her. She married some guy they went to school with and the kid belonged to him but apparently that marriage didn’t work out because the baby’s daddy was living with someone else and their kids. He asked if she was single, which she was, and then proceeded to ask if he could give her his number, which she agreed to. She opened her cell phone and entered it in.
Classic Shertown. Pickin’ up chicks at the local Walmart.
Part II: After that scene played out, I hear from behind me, “You should get a mongoose.” I turned around and the guy behind me pointed to the litter box and bag of litter in my hands and repeated his statement. “You should get a mongoose.” I asked him if he thought I could train the mongoose to use the litter box. He didn’t know. He told me he was all about starting random conversations. Then he asked me if I had a lot of free time because my toe and fingernails matched. Crazy kid. I went through the line and bid him and his friend a good night and got the hell out of dodge. All the crazies come out at night.