Truth is funnier than fiction
24-Apr-05
Oh, yeah. Friday night John and I went out for dinner. Afterwards, we were a little tipsy, so we went to the nearby drugstore to kill time while the alcohol stopped afflicting us. At checkout, there was a nice high school girl (maybe a college student) who rang us up. They’re having one of those donate-a-dollar charity drives right now. So she asked “Do you want to donate a dollar to the Children’s Foundation?”
I deadpanned “No. We hate children.”
The look on her face was priceless. (As was her response: A very slow, wary “Oooo-kaaaay….”) If I could have made it out of there without collapsing into gales of laughter, it would have been the comedic moment of my lifetime. Instead, I proceeded to laugh myself silly for five minutes, and she kind of gave us the “whatever” eye (it’s like the Evil Eye, but much lazier– like a Lazy Evil Eye.)