I was standing in line at the grocery store watching a couple ahead of me.

The guy put his food up on the counter and the cashier rang it up. Then the guy turned to his girlfriend and said he didn’t know what else was his and what was hers. She seemed to glance down into the basket and just stare at it. She finally just said, “I don’t know why I grabbed all of this stuff.” He replied that he didn’t know why she did either, but wanted to sort his from hers.

So he just started putting stuff on the counter he thought was his and she would make comments here and there about what might be hers. He asked for a subtotal and that’s when it got interesting. She flipped out!

“I don’t want any of this stuff, I don’t know why I got this in the first place.” And she kept saying that over and over. Her boyfriend just gave her the strangest look, then stared at the cashier with a look of helplessness.

The cashier seemed to keep her cool through all of this and suggested they void the transaction and start over with just his stuff and then she could get want she wanted after she decided. This caused the girlfriend to go Ga-ga and she walked off toward the door, waving her hands around and repeating over and over, “I don’t want any of it, I don’t know why I grabbed it.” I was trying to clamp my mouth shut so I didn’t laugh out loud, it was funny, in a sad sort of way.

In the end the boyfriend bought his stuff and ran after his girlfriend and I got to the register. “Typical day?” I asked. “More than you know.” She answered.

The Moral to this story is: Write a list and stick to it when you go grocery shopping or your boyfriend/girlfriend will be chasing after you as you rant about how you don’t want to buy it and don’t know why you picked it up.