While I was in line at the Gas Station Chicken Store on Thursday afternoon, a young woman came in the door. She had a little girl with her, maybe 6-7 years old. She looked around. At first I thought they came in for the bathrooms at the front by the door. But then she shooed the little girl over to the side of the counter, by the closed register.
The Lady appeared to be in her late 20s. She started rummaging in her purse, and putting handfuls of coins on the glass counter. I stepped up to do my lottery business while she was counting her coins into stacks. The Lady turned to look at me.
"I love your shirt!"
"Thank you! Green is my favorite color, and I like pastels."
"It's my kind of thing."
That's when I realized that The Lady's hair was a match for my shirt! Her dark hair had wide strands of the green and purple running through it! It actually looked okay.
"Oh, I see what you mean. It matches your hair!"
"Yes! And I love that little purple car out there, too!"
Indeed, there was a matching car out at one of the gas pumps. I finished up my transaction, and The Lady told Fave (my favorite cashier), "I'd like $21.54 of gas on Pump 4."
I had been prepared to offer to pay if The Lady was short on her change. She gave off a good vibe.
You can sprain your brain sometimes jumping to conclusions. You are so good hearted I thought you might swap shirts with her.
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh! I've never given the shirt off my back. But I don't mind giving a couple dollars to random people trying to buy the cheapest bottle of alcohol at 10:00 a.m., or people who wander around town on foot trying to buy a vape while I'm in Cheap Smokes for lottery tickets. I'm a soft-hearted enabler, I guess. I also don't mind chipping in for groceries, or giving a kid (with accompanying adult's permission) a dollar for the grabber machine. But this was my favorite shirt!
DeleteAre you going to dye your hair? You would look fetching as you went about your daily ticket buying!
ReplyDeleteI do not plan to dye my hair, but it would be AWESOME to have it match that shirt!
DeleteThat is a really nice shirt. I've seen people here with two and three toned hair, sometimes blue with green, sometimes pink with teal and the third colour is their natural hair. I like it. My grand daughter had two colours for her brother's wedding, half her head was teal and half was burgundy with matching eyebrows.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen matching eyebrows around here. The lady at the Casey's where I get gas has bright pink hair. She's probably in her late 40s. She's easy to describe if I ever win big on a ticket she sells me, in case she's not working when I go back to give her a reward.
DeleteI can see why that's your favorite shirt. I love the plaid and the little rows of seer sucker running through it. Most people probably don't know what seer sucker is, but I miss it. One of my prom dresses was seer sucker with huge flowers. I looked like a walking garden. A full skirt too. None of this short, too tight "sexy" stuff for me. It was so pretty.
ReplyDeleteAs River says...you are a good person and I think we all need to do little kindnesses like that, whenever we can. You saw how much you appreciated her compliment, and it can have the same positive effect on others. (There's way too much anonymous comments via the internet.) Ranee
It's actually a brighter color than show here hanging on the bathroom door. And the gal's hair was bright to match it. I have several seersucker shirts like this, different colors and plaids or stripes. They are cool and comfortable, and have a pocket on the front that I MUST HAVE. It's like my retirement uniform, heh, heh.
DeleteThat gal was friendly, and her child was well-behaved. I would have gladly chipped in if she needed more gas than her change would allow.
You never cease to amaze me when you go to that place. I love the plaid.
ReplyDeleteI go there every day. Sometimes I wish it was less eventful, but this time it was positive. I also love my plaid!
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