Encounter at the grocery store

Chickie is very curious.  Good thing in general, bad thing when I'm in a hurry.

When I was visiting my parents, I took the kids to Wal-Mart Supercenter to pick up a few groceries.  Chickie was walking instead of riding in the cart, and she was in prime question-asking mode.  She saw some pipes (plumbing, I guess) in the corner of the dairy section.  "Wha's that, Mommy?" she asked.  "What's that?"

"I don't know, honey, they're some sort of pipe," I said.  "Come on, let's keep looking."

A male shopper overheard our conversation and decided to answer her question.

"That's where the boogie man hides!" he said with a smile.  When Chickie appeared not to hear him and I (pointedly) did not respond, he repeated his statement.  "That's where the boogie man hides!"

He looked at me, laughing.  I didn't join in the laughter; I simply moved on as quickly as possible, glad Chickie doesn't have boogiemanophobia. 

I could really turn this into a massive vent post, but I don't even think I need to.  I think it all goes without saying.  (But if you want to say it for me in the comments, by all means, please do!)

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Are you going to watch Survivor tonight?  Remember, my in-laws' good friend Ben will be on it.  You can see Ben's bio here.  The newspaper in their town did an article on him--it's pretty glowing for an "objective" article, but I still really enjoyed it.  And The Engineer and I had dinner with him and The Engineer's parents a few years back, which pretty much means we can claim him as a very close friend if he wins a bunch of money, right?

It premieres on CBS at 8:00 Eastern/ 7:00 Central, tonight.

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Freecycle Resolution update:

29.  Swiffer & refills

30.  3 novels

I did it!  I offered my last two items yesterday!  That means I used Freecycle to give away 30 items in 30 weekdays, if you don't count days I was out of town.  I do still have to take some stuff to Goodwill that wasn't claimed.  I still have way too much stuff so I'll keep Freecycling.