so this mom walks into a computer store.

I was standing on line yesterday at a big box electronics store, wondering idly about whether our agent had managed to snag a purchaser for us at the open house (it was still open at that moment and we were dragging around, filling up time before we could go back and toss the wet, heavily scented dog into the garage and away from under our noses in the back seat, get a snack for the whiny toddler, open a bottle of wine for ourselves).  A sentence from the cashier drifted vaguely back to me in the queue;  "I think I might be pregnant!  Have a nice day!"

I really didn't think I'd heard that right.  But it immediately made me think of an awesome comedy sketch where a cashier in a big-box electronics store said random things to customers just as they were leaving, like "I think I might have genital herpes.  Bye now!", or "See this weird skin-thing on my hand?  I'm pretty sure it's highly contagious.  Take care!"  And it was highly amusing.  I imagined all sorts of funny things until I got to the counter, at which point

She. Roped. Me. In.

Suddenly, I was listening to her tell me about how her husband woke her up every morning at 5 a.m. and how exhausted she was because of it, because she was already feeling under the weather, and how they'd been having this ongoing dialogue and how mad she was about the whole thing!, and all I could think was, just please don't tell me you have a highly contagious disease of any kind.  Please.  And simultaneously backing away from the desk with my stuff, nodding and smiling.

I don't think that's such a funny idea for a comedy sketch anymore, by the way.

Comments

[toyfoto]

Well I still think it's hilarious. You might have to sell it to the Brits though.

[Gwen]

But you didn't have to listen to her talk about being pregnant, did you?

I still think it's a funny SKIT idea.

[Ruth Dynamite]

This would be a hilarious skit...but only if YOU act in it.

[Mignon]

Did you see the Lawrence Welk skit on SNL last weekend? If that sister, the one - you know, was the cashier? It would be AWES
OME. Awesome.

[Kyla]

Ha! It is only funny if you aren't the customer being accosted by the over-sharer.

[JChevais]

One morning I was in a magazine store/kiosk having my morning espresso when a bunch of the sale's clerks friends came into the store. They chatted for a while and then, just as the friends were leaving, one of them yelled out, "and be sure to have a doctor look at that rash this weekend!" I was laughing so hard that I almost spit out my coffee. "Nice friends!" I sputtered. And the sales guy? Laughed and said yes, that they were the best!

[apathy lounge]

Despite what my mother might have tried to tell me back when I was 13? You can't catch pregnancy. I mean...I'm almost sure of it.

[Anissa@Hope4Peyton]

She didn't TOUCH you did she? Cause it could all be leprosy or Sars or the mad itchy funks. You'd better go wash your hands again NOW just in case.

[Kathi D]

I think it is a genius idea.