During a telephone conversation with my brother Steven yesterday, he related a funny story that had me laughing out loud. I'd like to share it with you.
First, anyone who knows me well will know that I like to weave stories (lies). With a deadpan face, my challenge is to see if I can bait, hook and reel them in. Some people are easier than others. For some reason my three brothers all do the same thing, and I don't know why we all do this, but I truly don't feel it worthy of an evaluation. We don't engage in this to be mean, but as our version of the 'what if' game. We know we're REALLY good when we manage to pull off a story with each other...
Anyway,
Steve needed a bag of dog food, so stopped into the local A & P. Having two german shepards, he needed a BIG bag of dog food. He found that and meandered to the cereal aisle where he also picked up a box of Captain Crunch, his favorite cereal.
Keep in mind that he lives in a very affluent town, and this is a hoity toity little grocery.
At the checkout, he started chatting with the apparently 'new on board' cashier, explaining that he had six kids and found he could stretch a box of cereal by mixing it with the dog food. He said he'd been doing that since they were very little, and they didn't know the difference and loved it. He said it reduced his cost of feeding them to pennies.
The woman behind him piped up, "that's the most disgusting thing I've ever heard".
Meanwhile, Steve had finished up his transaction, and preparing to leave, swung the big bag of dog food over his shoulder.
It exploded in a rain of kibbles everywhere.
The cashier was laughing so hard, she was doubled over and couldn't stop. The busybody next in line realized she'd been had.
I realize there is a lesson in perspectives here.
The cashier probably went home and related this story to friends/family as something very funny that happened at work that day.
The busybody probably went home and told of the unbelievable asshole in front of her at the store.
Peace, my friends.
3 comments:
I would have found the asshole in front of me funny...and loved it when the bag of dog food went and kibbles hit the floor! This is me as the busybody. I think as a young and or naive cashier I would have been afraid the cereal swap story was true...even if I wasn't young or a cashier-I am naive and gullible as all get out. I would be so taken by the storytelling family!
I once asked my Grandpa when I was a little girl why his nose was so big. He told me a pigeon landed on his shoulder and kicked him in the nose while sitting on a bench at a park he used to take us to...I so totally believed it, and I found it really amazing because those bird legs really didn't look all that strong. No lie.
~Paige
=)
i LOVE this.
Great story. You know I would have sooo fallen for it. I fall for all of your yarns, don't I?
You guys have an amazing talent for this. I could never pull it off. I'm not even creative enough to come up with one much less not give it away with my own laughter.
Bravo, Steve!!!!
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