In the middle of making small talk with the Mario, our friendly neighborhood checker guy about the Arrogant Bastard Ale among my small pile of dinnertime groceries that his friends were always drinking but that he'd never tried, and beginning to tell him about my BeerLabels.com friend Cory, when I realized the fatal error of forgetting a wallet to pay for the upwards of $40 ringup.
"You wanna I suspend the order?" Mario cocked his head to one side, holding up the tab in question, but I was already sheepishly making the arrangement to abandon ship return with a life vest.
Back at the checkout with the proper accoutrement this time, I waited in the penance line again for a proper ring this time of the suspended purchase.
"See? I put a fifty-cent coupon on it so I'd remember you guys, the "beer people," Mario said when it was my turn, peeling away the chartreuse and hot pink square from the short waxy white scrap as I hovered over the touchscreen console.
"I'm gonna try that Arrogant Bastard," he declared, as if our exchange had never been interrupted. "Since it guess it's not, you know, a male kind of thing."
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