A few things forgotten on the way to the post button.

So two more minor points from the weekend. When we went grocery shopping to get stuff for the carrot cake and some homemade overly large squash ravioli 2 interesting things happened. The first was that the young, socially awkward, clerk at wal-mart put his foot in his mouth. Charlie and a girl EB were buying some food and the clerk asked if EB was Charlie's Mom. Charlie, a bit taken back, responded with "What?" The clerk than guessed "girlfriend" which is sadly not correct either. Charlie informed the young clerk that guessing whether or not a young woman is a young man's mother is probably an ill-considered approach to small-talk and the woman in particular don't care for it. The clerk than said, "Oh, so you know about woman do you?" To which Charlie replied, "well obviously one of us doesn't." I was amused by the whole thing, especially since the kid looked down his nose at me when I bought a plain red ball, and especially in combination with toothpaste. As if getting a toy ball and colgate toothpaste marked me as a deviant or social pariah. I can't help but think what he would have said if I got some condoms and a red ball. But walmart probably doesn't sell condoms so its a mute point.

The second thing was a signal from God but I don't know what it means. We pulled into a parking lot where there were two shopping cart return dealys across the parking lane from eachother. As we pull in, a cart in the near one is pushed back by the wind, swings around 180 degrees and crosses the parking lane and situates itself in the middle of the other return dealy. I think that this description doesn't really do the thing justice. Oh well, there it is.