line ups

everyone has to have their talents. one of my little known talents is the ability to find the line up with the cuckoo-cuckoo who needs a price check on half of their order.

this happened yesterday.

it was pop or milk or something that was marked down to a dollar and it was coming up as 500 dollars or something like that. to make it even better,  the grocery store that i frequent is also undergoing renovations, so everyone is cranky, and the store clerks don't really know where anything is so they are taking longer than normal as well to find said item. 

thankfully i have a darling one year old girl who helps me pass the time. she flirts with all of the older men in line behind us. i don't know they are there until she starts giggling because the nice grandpa behind me is  doing the old "dismember my finger from the knuckle" trick. and because emma can't resist batting her eyes at anyone who will play with her, within moments we have a whole little gathering of previously grumpy people saying "isn't she cute? look at those ponytails. what pretty eyelashes she has". 

and all is right in the world again. 

until she gets too excited and bangs her head on the front of the grocery cart and then all of her fans remember that they were cranky and it is taking 10 minutes to find the price for a bottle of milk. 

if you are ever in the grocery store at the same time as me, pick the longest line up, and i bet you will still beat me out of the store.