My adult daughter lives with her husband and two small children in a town ten miles from where my wife and I live. My daughter was quite sick yesterday so her husband stayed home from work to take care of the kids. Because today (Wednesday) is a day off for me, I offered to drive in to help her. She and her husband accepted my offer.
After Sesame Street ended at 10am she put the baby down for a nap. I had errands to run so I took my 20 month old grandson with me. That would give my daughter a rest.
I needed to buy a few things at Menards so I put my grandson in a shopping cart and away we went. Now I was dressed in drab because only my wife knows that I like to dress up. My hair was kind of wild because of the wind and rain. It's longer than usual because I'm overdue at the beauty shop. I wore my plain women's jeans with a unisex zip up jacket.
Because I don't like to hold up the line, I usually fill out the check and register in the store before checking out. Then all I have to do is enter the amount and hand over the check. When it was my turn the checkout lady said," How are you today Ma'am?" I was surprised but said" Fine" in my softest voice. After I handed her my check she asked for my drivers license. It has my fem picture on it but it says that I am male of course. She looked at it and then circled my wife's name on the check. She must have thought that my husband had presigned the check for me.
Then she handed me my license and said," Have a nice day ma'am." I said thank you and then my grandson and I left the store without looking back. I was afraid that someone that knows me might want to say hello. But I did have a smile on my face as we left. Leanne