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I was standing in the checkout line at the supermarket, and couldn’t help noticing the guy in front of me was buying the following items: large bag of adult diapers; a club 12 pack of bacon flavored baked beans; two large bottles of Metamucil; 18 pack of super quilted toilet paper and a box of Q-Tips (I guess in case the toilet paper wasn’t meticulous enough). Really, when you looked at it, the stuff bathroom humor is made of and everyone in the lineup looked like they were waiting to die. So to lighten things up I said to the guy “Looks like you’re in for quite a weekend!”
The checkout chick smirked at the remark, so I wasn’t totally off base. But I soon discovered he wasn’t digging the humor quite as much. The way I could tell was the guy’s flaring nostrils and the dark blue veins protruding from his forehead. I thought Wade from Total Recall and was going to erupt from his chest. “Go to hell!” he said flicking his hand at me. It was then I discovered why it wasn’t funny for him, during the excitement he had shat himself right on the spot, no kidding. The rank smell of the immediate vicinity was a total give away.
Moral of the story, if you see a line of people waiting to die, let them.
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