Puppies And Hot Dads

I’m a sucker.

I walked out of Haggen’s and there was this super cute 8ish year-old Boy Scout standing next to a table covered with goodies.  He looked like he wanted to disappear.  He barely lifted his eyes to look at me and then the conversation went as follows…

Me:  Hi!!!  It looks like you have a lot of yummy things for sale.

Cutie Pie:  Yes. <mumbled>

Me:  I love, love, love all sorts of candy.  Which one is your favorite?

Cutie Pie:  These two. <pointed to the two largest bags>

Me:  Oh, no.  I love both of those.  I don’t know how to choose between Caramel Corn popcorn and the Butter Toffee popcorn.

And then his Dad stepped in to help…

Cutie Dad:  Well, it depends if you like nuts or no nuts.

Me:  Well, I’m going to have to go with the nuts.  I love caramel and almonds.  How much is it?

Cutie Pie:  $20.

Holy crap, it’s twenty dollars for a bag of popcorn?  Ugh.  I looked around to see if there was a smaller bag, but there wasn’t and I had already committed to the caramel kind so I was screwed.

Me:  Here ya go!!! 

I handed Cutie Pie twenty bucks, grabbed my popcorn, looked up at Cutie Dad and he winked.

Pause…

Me:  Wait one second…you know I think I’ll get that other bag too.  You never know when you want to mix it up.

I’ve always thought the movies, and, yes, real life, was super silly when the ladies would go crazy over the guy at the park walking the puppy.  Ridiculous.

However, I realized at that moment I just did it with popcorn.