Jun. 17th, 2008

tirsden: a creepy child swings on a creepy swing (ch333333s3)
A couple weeks ago I was waiting for a ride back from the grocery store, and got into a conversation with a little old lady who was waiting on her son to finish up grocery shopping. We got into talking about food stamps and she said she was lucky, never had to deal with any of that. We were both extremely dismayed at the price of food lately, whatever budget a person is running on. (Yeah, I know, who isn't. I had to use cash for the first time since getting on food stamps... not much, but still... I shop carefully! And this month is going to be even worse.)

Then a store employee comes up and decides to jump into the conversation. The woman I had been talking to turns to this new person and says, "I was just telling this lady here [etc etc etc]" and I realized OMG SHE MEANS ME! LOL!!!! So here I am continuing a polite conversation while cracking up big time in my head.

Too funny. And it was at that moment I really realized other people see something I don't. I know I'm 30 (which I find completely hilarious)... but it never really hit me till then. Not that I much care, but... lol... lady? That is like, one of the very last words I associate with myself. And ya wanna know what puts the icing on the cake? My mother was picking me up from something else on Friday and actually didn't recognize me at a distance. She said she saw a lady in a hat who looked a bit like me but she wasn't sure. (I recently bought a sun hat cuz of having to walk in this evil summer heat.) That promptly led me to the story about the other day, and she thought that was pretty amusing too.

Heh. Lady. That's a new one.

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