On 2/6/2021 6:25 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 2/6/2021 3:34 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> I was waiting for an UberÂ* outside of PetSmart and a little girl and
>> her mother walk out holding those puffy bags of water and air.Â* The
>> 5-year girl was especially fond and proud of HER bag.
>>
>> I said, "Wow - you got a nice big bag of water!"
>>
>> She says, "No, silly! These are my new tiny pet fishies in here!"
>>
>> I step a little closer to look at the bag, "Wow! They ARE tiny.
>> That is sooo neat... do they come with tiny little French fries,
>> too?"
>>
>> About a split-second later I learned a new facial expression AND
>> felt the fear of God AND Satan for the first time.Â* The facial
>> expression is the "grinnace".Â* It's a cross between a grin and
>> grimmace. But the Fear was, without even opening her lips at the
>> same moment of the grimmace, I CLEARLY heard the mother say "Are you
>> Steve?".
>>
>> Whaaa? How who....????
>>
>> I don't know what the look on my face said at that moment, but in
>> less than one single second I was the proudest, smarttest (assed)
>> guy in the world AND saw my life flash before my eyes as I was
>> falling into a pit of snarling beasts made entirely of flames.
>>
>> But as I snapped out of it, I focus my eyes 10 feet beyond the
>> mother, and ... it's the Uber driver calling to me through her
>> passenger window.
>>
>> Whew, thank God, that was close.Â* I almost denounced my devout
>> atheism there for a second.
>>
>> Now I got that off my chest I can finish my evening nap.Â* But just
>> in case, "Now I lay me down to sleep... if I die before I wake, I
>> give to RFC my soul to take".Â* You can interpret that as a prayer or
>> a curse, your choice. While I dream of cucumber kimchi burps.
>>
>> -sw
>>
>
> wait - was it the Uber driver that grinnaced?

I think he meant the mommy.

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