Two interactions with the public that made me giggle.
Before the laugh riot that will be forth coming, let me alert you that Andrew Blair is minus two wisdom teeth. He has a mouth full of gauzy blood and just took a pain pill, but I’m confident he’s going to be fine. And now, we’re both a little more confident that we won’t have a dental emergency on the PCT.
1. I was at the airport waiting in line at Panda Express. The lady in front of me was ordering. She got one of the combination plates and added, “can you put a shit load of broccoli on that?” My head turned. The counter guy visibly started and said, “what?” as in, “I don’t think I heard you right, did you just say shit load of broccoli?” She leaned forward, and with no visual clues that she understood that yelling “shit load of broccoli” was gross and vulgar on many levels, repeated herself, louder, so the counter guy could hear.
2. This story was experienced by Andy. I wish I could have seen it in person.
A little girl and her mom were in line in front of Andy paying for their lunch. It was a buffet style restaurant. If your kid is six, you have to pay more than if they’re five. The cashier asked how old her child was. The woman answered “five”. As she was handing over the money, the kid piped up, “No mom, I’m six, remember, I’m six!” Mom, totally ignores her, completing the transaction with a blank straight face as her pride and joy continually tugs at her pant leg yelling louder, “Mom, Mom, remember, I’m six!”
The cashier and Andy barely held it together as the lady and her daughter walked to their table.
“…yelling “shit load of broccoli†was gross and vulgar on many levels…”
Huh? Really?
One more thing to remember.
When I used to work at six flags where Kids under three get in free and kids over three you have to pay $35.99 so yeah alot of people used to try to say that their five year old was three… One thing I learned always ask the kid.. Look at them straight in the face and with a nice big smile.. “how old are you little Guy/sweetie(add any overly cute adjetive) and most of the time you will get the truth…
We go to a restraunt Golden corall and kids under 5 are free and kids 6-9 are a lower price We were honest when Samantha turned 6
Troy,
you are one of silliest people I know.
I mean that in a good way.
I remember when Rob got his wisdom teeth out–it was an hour’s drive home from the dentist and he kept telling me the same story of how he was nervous and counting backward and then he was waking up and the dentist was telling him that he had the biggest wisdom tooth he’d ever seen. I must have heard that story four times on that trip–in between bouts of dozing and drooling and gagging on the cotton in his mouth.
Also, I think asking for a “buttload” of broccoli would not only have been much more apropos for the classiness of the restaurant but also much more alliterative and therefore more pleasing to the ear.