February 11, 2008

• The Oddest Situation:
  Yesterday, I drove my bug through the tundra’s conditions, to Baxter, MN where the closest Steve & Barry’s (they carry SJP’s line, BITTEN) is. Anyhow, I shop shop shop and head up to the registers. As I am unloading my items from the cart, I look up to see two 11-year-olds (possibly 12? 13? What do preteens look like ‘these days’?) behind me in line buying really ugly purses/bags. I probably smiled or looked very nonchalantly at them. As the employee ‘rings’ me up, I ask nicely, “How much was the scarf and underwear?” She states that everything was $8.98 (as their posters had advertised). “Oh,” I say, “Just checking.”
  Here’s the odd part = one of the preteens behind me says precisely what I had just said to the cashier to her friend, only in very snotty/mocking tone. I was astonished. Shocked. I frowned as I dug my Visa out of my wallet. I didn’t turn to them and say anything. Didn’t have any witty comment come to my mind. As I walked out, I wondered why the preteen had said it and within ear shot too. I suppose the best thing I could’ve done was what I did end up doing – ignoring them. Perhaps, in true Karma form, they both slipped and fell on their butts in the parking lot later.

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