Life's Little Observations

Saturday, December 20, 2003

It's Not Always What It Seems!
The minute you think you've seen everything something else pops up leaving you shaking your head. In certain situations you kind of know what the person is going to say. Your anticipation will make you believe certain things based on certain situation at hand.

Two days ago I was in the local home remodling store. I was looking for some PVC pipe. I happened to be rounding the aisle when I see a gentleman (and I use this term loosely and with no respect) ask one of the store representatives a question.

What I thougt I heard the man say was "can you tell me where the bathroom fixtures are?" The response from the person was "two aisles down to the left." I overheard this response and it made sense to me being that I had just passed that area.

The so-called gentleman thanked the representative and dashed off to that part of the store. I thought "he must be in a big hurry. He must have an important deadline.

I had selected the three pieces of PVC pipe that I needed. Remembering that I had to look for a lamp, I decided to go back to the electrical section of the store. To get there I had to pass the bathroom fixture section.

To my horror and dismay and to the horror and dismay of the 20 or so people standing there horrified, there was the "gentleman", relieving himself using one of the display toilets in the middle of the bathroom fixture section. Everyone there was motionless and speechless.

The next thing we knew, he was gone and we were left shaking our heads.

With what I had just witnessed, I asked myself what was it I heard the man ask the sales representative?

The answer: I dunno. Lesson learned: I'm always surprised at the resourcefullness of others.