I'M BACK!!
I sincerely hope that everyone had a happy Thanksgiving yesterday; I know the genius and I did. We spent it with my cousins at their lake house plus 45 of their nearest and dearest friends. This is a family tradition that dates back probably thirty years when my aunt and uncle hosted it. Now it has been taken over by the next generation and the numbers have really grown.
Brenda and I made it back Wednesday night from the Cape. Unfortunately, I had spent my last several days there in bed, sick with food poisoning that started on Saturday. At my age it takes a while to snap back from something like that, and I'm still feeling somewhat rocky. But I refuse to let the illness spoil my memories of a great few weeks at the Cape!!
The good news is I lost some weight!! The bad news is that I'm sure that it will come back easily as soon as my appetite is restored.
The genius told us a funny story that happened to him while I was gone. He went to the grocery and because he was hungry, he stopped by the deli and picked up a reuben sandwich, which he ate before checking out. He had decided to just give the empty container with the bar code on it to the checkout lady.
When he went to check out, there were long lines and he, never being one to wait in line for anything, decided to do the self check out thingy. So he meandered over and started scanning his items. He came to the empty carton and scanned it and put it in the bag, as the voice directed him. But because the weight was gone the "voice lady" couldn't pick it up. So he put his finger in the bag and pushed down what he thought a sandwich would weigh. That was fine, but when he removed his hand, the voice came back on -- "Put the item in the bag!"
So what was he to do? Keep one hand in the bag and try to check out and pay, etc. with it still there? He asked for help but they were busy and couldn't. Finally, I guess he timed out or whatever, but at last his purchase was accepted. But I can see him now trying to keep one finger pushed down and frantically doing all the other tasks with his other hand.
Wouldn't that make a great skit for Mr. Bean?!?
4 comments:
That is pretty awesome, and it gets better when I try to picture Grandaddy trying to accomplish such a task! I can see him arguing with the "voice lady"! (That's what I would do.)
Oh, and I'm glad you're doing better. Food poisoning is awful - I got it from my mom's Fry Bread on my birthday last year, and I haven't had her homemade refried beans since!
Yeah, well, nobody else got it, so it was a virus, young man...there was NOTHING wrong with my refried beans! As for Daddy, that one got a real laugh out of me cause I'm so familiar with those self check outs and can totally picture him trying to do that!
Hey, all I'm sayin' is that I wasn't sick, I ate the fry bread (just one, I didn't stuff myself), and then within 45 minutes I was feeling sick. I didn't even eat my BIRTHDAY Sheath Cake!!! I'm no Sherlock, but inductive reasoning tells me you did it on purpose. Shame on you.
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