I went to a grocery store earlier today to pick up gingerale and to look for "zicams" (I don't think they exist in Canada, I've looked in a bunch of different places) - they're throat lozenges and apparently a lot better than halls, which are fucking awful and don't do shit. I'm sick. So here I am in line, and there's an obviously attractive girl behind me, she's probably around 18 or 19.
A guy comes up to her, and he's sorta burly, got facial hair, etc - looks about 23 to me, so I kinda figured they'd be together, so I made a point to keep staring straight forward so she wouldn't point me out to him and get into an argument.. and basically, he started chatting her up, nothing spectacular or particularly interesting (but I kept eavesdropping anyway), and then he starts to pull out the "Can I have a picture of you..?" line on her, and I started chuckling. She's directly behind me, remember, so she can probably hear me snicker, and out of the corner of my eye, she said no, sorta sidestepped out of his way, and moved to another line (in order to avoid him I guess)
Upon realizing his "game" wasn't gonna work, he loudly calls across the checkout to her, "I ASKED BECAUSE I COLLECT PICTURES OF NATURAL DISASTERS!"
I've never seen nor heard the "beep, beep, beeeep" of the barcode-registering machines go silent so abruptly in my life. EVERYONE looked at this guy: customers, employees, managers, people from aisles were poking their heads out to see what was going on, etc. It was quiet for at least ten seconds, while everyone was just staring this guy down, like, "are you fucking serious?"
He must've realized he fucked up, because he immediately dropped the Nesquik and Gatorade on the customer service desk and abruptly left.
Then the girl and I went back to her place.
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