While waiting to check out at the dollar store, a man was standing about 2 feet away from me, but apparently he thought he was in Ohio, and that it was necessary for me to hear every syllable he said, because he was talking as loudly as most people yell.The phrase which really caught my attention, and broke through my fatigue and pain, was
"Yes, she's tried everything,
she just can't get pregnant!"
He went on to discuss in detail more graphic than you'd hear on Discovery Health:
- all the reasons why the woman in question couldn't get pregnant
- the means and methods employed (some of which sounded more like Olympic gymnast routines than fertility enhancement methods)
- what she was going to try next
- and his editorial commentary on the whole thing.
My mother was along with me on this trip. We next went to Menard's. Neither of us said a word until we'd been there for five minutes when we looked at each other in dumbfounded astonishment.
The kicker is tho... he wasn't even shopping in the store. He'd wandered over from the laundromat next door. Maybe he has an exhibitionist fetish, and standing near the check out line of the dollar store while discussing the most intimate details of another person's life was his way to get a cheap thrill.
That's it... no deeper life message or editorial commentary... no need.
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