Many years
ago I was saddled with the grocery shopping and my list included "Tampax."
I was fairly sure what they were but wasn't sure if that was a generic name for
the product or a brand name and/or if it made any difference.
Having
experienced the wrath of one who shouts, “THAT is not what I wanted” and being
unable to locate said items and NOT wanting to go home without them, I asked
the clerk at the checkout counter where I might find them.
Much to my
astonishment, she gets on the speaker system and says, “Billy, bring a box of
Tampax to check out #4.” If that wasn’t bad enough, “Billy” gets on the speaker
system and says, “Do you want the kind you push in with your thumb or drive in
with a hammer?”
The temperature in the store now has dropped
to absolute zero usually found only in
the void of space where all motion ceases.
Everyone in the store apparently is waiting for her response.
When one was
not forthcoming, “Billy” gets on the speakers again with, “You DID say thumb
tacks, right?”
It’s been 35
years now … “Billy” is probably a grandfather, but I’m not willing to take that
chance.
