People say the damndest things... to kids

I meant to post about this when it happened a couple weeks ago but who knows, no doubt one of the dashes did something that made me forget about it. Until we went back to that store this weekend and as we were loading up the car I smacked my forehead and told flyboy I had totally forgotten my blog worthy story about S@m's club.

Or at least I think it's blog worthy but then again I control this little space now don't I?

I do so love S@m's club. It's like a toy store for adults. I mean you never know what in the world they are going to have in there. Usually I'm going for our household staples, bottled water, fruit (my boys, especially the grown one can pack that stuff away), you know boring stuff like that, but I still wonder around.

Oh and the GIANT 87 cent fountain coke that comes in a wonderfully delightful Styrofoam cup so that it doesn't sweat, insulates like a dream, and keeps the soda oh so fizzy. Seriously that's why I'm really there.

Anyways we were getting our cart checked out as we were leaving the store, because you know in warehouse stores people stealing 20 pound vats of mayo is a real problem so they need to check everyone, dash-1 was sitting in the back of the cart playing with an airplane glider toy of his.

Dash-1 shows it off to the guy checking our cart and starts talking about airplanes. The guy says this, "I don't do airplanes. I don't trust them. They fall out of the sky."

They fall out of the sky.

I swear dash-1 looked like someone had just kicked him in the balls. His eyes were HUGE. And for once he was speechless.

Just staring at this ginormous guy (really he was like 300 pounds) with his eyes wide and his mouth hanging open digesting what he had just said.

The checker guy is kinda wondering why this kid is staring him this way I'm sure so I just politely took my receipt and explained that my husband flies for a living. A lot.

To which he replied again, "I don't get why kids don't like me." I guess dash-1's starring wide eyed with a gaping mouth was getting to him. Which he was still doing.

But really, your wondering why my kids haven't taken to you? You just told a kid playing with an airplane that they fall out of the sky. Yowza. Talk about a conversation killer.

And the worst part.... I must admit. I found this whole exchange kinda funny. Ya know in a "people say the strangest thing to total strangers"-"awkward silence and strange facial reaction" kinda way. Really. Trust me, it was kinda funny.

And then when dash-1 came to his senses later in the car and shoot back with maybe that man's plane falls out of the sky "cause he's a REALLY REALLY big". Even funnier.