exactly, Pudgie~

Ok, seriously.....

Why am I always that person that people want to chat up their ideals and beliefs with, at the most inappropriate times?

I made the "simple" decision to take Justice to the dollar store with me... to grab some pool stuff and get the heck outta dodge. Well, as luck would have it, we were like 2 minutes too late to check out before "woman with 1000 items" got to the checker. Now, she immediately apologized for all her items.... which was random... because why apologize for the snazzy stuff you are buying... right?

So being me, I check out.. ok, I oogle, all her goodies. She is planning a par-tay... least that is what I deduce. I am kinda right. I make the huge mistake of commenting/questioning...... "wow, are you having a huge end of the year party for your kids with all your fun stuff?" Common sense right? 50 palm trees, 20 blow ups and party supplies later........I am thinking, wow, we need to up our party supplies for our party that is coming up........ WRONG...............

Dear Lord, here it comes............and I will sum what quote was, from there on out, continuously, with one breath.......... spewed.....

"well, I was raised Penticostal and my father is a Baptist Minister but I am now learning Jewish Sabbath which has a huge party later on in the year having to do with trees. Now I am not a cult freak or anything like that, because most people think when I start talking I am talking about a cult but you should really look up how the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday but we still honor the Sabbath on Saturday which makes it hard because all of our sporting games and such are on Saturday so I never know what to do because most of the town is Mormon....they honor the sabbath on Sunday," pause for a breath, look at me, (which, at this point I think I may have some drool puddling around the corners of my mouth and my eyes have rolled back into my head, and I am thinking, WHY DON'T I EVER JUST SHUT MY MOUTH??????) She asks, Are you Mormon? I kinda shake back to reality and say,

"UM No."
(seriously....I am wearing a tank top, a push up bra, a cross on my necklace and I had just pretty much told my son to stop flippen touching everything and asking to buy everything he could grab or I would beat his ass in the store.. and you know I didn't say flippen' right?)......

So then I ask....
"Uh yeah, no I am not Mormon, why, do I look LDS???

Not offending anyone here... but they just don't wear tank tops in my neighborhood and boobs are not talked about let alone seen......... Seriously, the cross shoulda been a dead give away!!!

Any whose....................she wasn't even listening again..... she just started with her gobble-de-gook.

She gurgled and started in, with. "You should google "blah blah blah, it will explain how the Jewish believe..........." Blank stare........I seriously could not keep up with this woman.
Something about going camping for a week to celebrate trees or something.
Something about fasting to save paper
and then there was the whole, "my father keeps asking me if I am in a cult."

"Ahhh."
"Hmm, Are you?"
(WTF, where in the world did that one come from? I mean come on DeAnna, do not encourage this woman.) I needed Tommy there. He would have ignored the woman and walked out with nothing. Yep, he woulda left everything on the belt and kept on going.

She starts in again.

The checker was finally done and I really believed it would all end right then and there. Nope. Not my luck. She pulls her cart to the side and keeps blah blah blahing.........

Now, I truly love to learn about religions. I ask people all kinds of questions about their religion... all the time. I probably irritate a lot of people. I am so not kidding....... With that said.. I am not a lost soul that needs saving. I am just curious about what and why people believe the things they do. I do find it really disturbing that so many people feel the need to defend what they believe and then repeatedly tell me they are not part of a cult. Which chatty Cathy just kept going on and on and on and on about......

Thankfully Justice stepped in. My oh so wonderful little boy finally just looked at this woman and said,

"We have to go swimming. Can you please stop talking."

My thoughts exactly Pudgie, my thoughts exactly!!!