Another fine day at the market

Okay:  If I’m going to have one of those uncomfortable moments, it’s going to be in the grocery store.  It seems that I always either meet up with a freak or someone who thinks that I’m a freak.  So, yesterday, my daughter wanted me to make her and the kids a taco salad, so I needed to pick up a few things at the store.  I didn’t make a list so I was walking down the chip aisle mumbling out what I needed.  This guy looked at me and smiled and said, hi, how are you?  I realized that he mistook my mumblings for a greeting so I said fine and you?  Then, I moved over to another aisle and there he was, and he had this huge smile and another few words, which I smiled and moved on.  Then, I remembered that I needed coffee and I never remember where the coffee is, so I’m going down the main aisle looking down all the food aisles hoping to see coffee but instead, I see him and he smiles and then I’m thinking okay, this guy thinks, I’m sure, that I’m stalking him.  I get to the coffee aisle and low and behold, he is coming down the other end.  I grab the coffee, turn my basket, and beat it.  Yeah.   Well, I paid for my few items and remember that my daughter wanted some crushed ice, so I go to the little burger joint, and there is a line at the outside window, so I go inside and order the ice and me a diet coke and this guy says, do I know you?  I look over and there’s the man.  Now, who in the hell leaves a grocery store and goes order burgers?  I mean, of all the places for him to be.  On top of that, he thinks I’m a stalker.  I look at him and with out blinking an eye said, excuse me?  He said, in the store?  I said, where?  He said, over at Harps.   You kept running into me.  I said, I was shopping.  You kept running into me.  He then said, here.  I said, my daughter wanted ice.  He said, whoops.  I said, yeah. For an uncomfortable few minutes we stood there and then my diet coke and ice came and I got the hell out of dodge.  The nerve of that middle aged man thinking I was stalking him. Now, the cute little guy with the baggy pants and the nice abds, that was someone to follow.  Dang it, he was just too fast.  In and out. LOL

jeanie  i still love your stories lol  anyway i was going to write you yesterday and tell you that there is some poison ivy med in wal mart that is really good. i cant think of the name of it but it does work really great take it from some one that gets it about 3 times a year. but for the life of me i cant think of what the name of it is...it is expensive but it gets rid of it really quick....it cost about 20 dollars i think it was. it will be in the section where the other ivy meds are....not a big tube but it works. but i have found that if i use a brush and an exfoliant on the rash that  it gives relief and reduses the amount of time you have it. 
have you been to the diamond fields anymore since we went in the mud ? lol we were sure nasty after that trip werent we? My youngest daughter lives in Clarksville now and the granddaughter lives in Rogers so maybe one day we can meet up some where. would love to see you now i bet i wouldnt reconize you ....i dont get on here much anymore to post just dont have enought time ...but wanted to tell you about the ivy med.  

Jan, We will do that some day in the not too distant future. I'm thinking Arkansas fall of 2010. I just hate to show up in chigger season!

Fall is probably the best time for sight seeing.  The heat here from July through August just about kills us.  We could go scratch for diamonds.  Maybe one of us will get lucky. 

We ALWAYS came to AR for my granny's birthday. . . August 7th! I'm thinking late September, early October 2010. How far are you from the diamond area? I'm thinking quite a drive of several hours? I'd enjoy just plunking away for fossils or pretty rocks anywhere.

Hopefully the steroid for my RA will help with the ivy.  I went to class yesterday covered in caladryl cream. LOL  That stuff is so pink and yucky looking.  I will make a run to walmart later today and look for the cream.  The itching kills me but I usually get cellulitis from the dang stuff. 

I took the grands last year and they had a blast.  I promised them that in the fall we could go do a crystal mine.  They think they get to go inside. LOL. 

I'd love to meet up with you.  I may come your way in August and we can meet up in Branson, that is, if I can get my pre fall class work done. LOL  It's always something.

Jeannie, your story brings to mind my little guy in Wal Mart...he came up to in produce and kept rubbing my hand. I looked to see who it was thinking it was someone that I knew. It was a strange man and he was talking and then told me he was lonely. He asked if I was too and I told him no. I am so stupid I had no idea what he was meaning until he asked me that. I told him I had to go...and he followed me around. I was looking at canned pasta for Bill's lunch and he came up...yep..rubbing my hand again...and asked me if I was buying anything good. I told him that my HUSBAND thought it was good. He told me to make sure to buy myself something good too.

But the funny thing is....

I told Bill when he got home from work and he said "Is he nuts? He must be crazy!" when I told him that some guy wa****ting on me. I looked at him and said.."Oh he is nuts and crazy because he i****ting on me?" He said he didn't know what I was talking about and I repeated what he said. He said that he didn't say that and I told him yes he did and he then said he didn't mean it that way. He told me that I should have got security. I told him that heck I couldn't remember what he looked like other than he was older (like in his mid 60's) and wore glasses...that sure narrows it down doesn't it???

I was in the frames aisle another time and sure enough there he was again...he started to talk after saying hello and nodding. I just walked away. I haven't seen him in a while...

I had just highlighted my hair and it was really blonde. Someone asked me if blondes had more fun and I told him that they must...I got hit on in Wal Mart....ha ha  You never know.... life can be interesting that is for dang sure!

I guess I had lost about 75 pounds when I began noticing a few of the gents checking me out and my husband noticed it first and got all possessive, even putting his arm around me. LOL.  I reminded him that if he preceeds me in death, there will be no more old birds to sing up in this house. I will be happy all by myself.    I think the guy yesterday really thought I's stalking him. LOL.  What a shame.  Every time I saw him, he had this huge smile and was stepping high too.  Imagine how stupid he felt when he realized that I was not following him.  LOL  Too funny, these little men. All but George, he isn't funny. He's sweet.