CHEW ON A THREAD ABOUT PEOPLE YOU MEET IN WALMART

So, after yesterday's marathon at the doctor's office, I swung by Costco on the way home to pick up my own prescription & also because my mom treated me to take out so I wouldn't have to cook supper when we got home.

On the...

2)...way to Red Robin because we decided on burgers, I run into Walmart to pick up a few groceries & a can of Bustelo espresso because it's across the highway from it.

So, there I am, tryna hurry because my mom's waiting in the car & this dude is in my way, staring at the...

3)...cottage cheese. I say excuse me & he gets up the nerve to speak to me.

"Do you know anything about making lasagna?", he says.

I finally take a good look at him & dude is kinda hot in an Alexander Skarsgard from STRAW DOGS kind of way but w/Jax Teller tats from SONS OF...

4)...ANARCHY.

"Yes, I know how to make lasagna," I say.

Dude holds up cottage cheese & asks if he can make it with that. Foodie chef in me is horrified & I direct him to the ricotta.

After telling him step by step what to buy, he thanks me, tucks his head bashfully & says...

5)...He just started doing his own cooking only recently.

"I just got out of prison after 12 years," he explains.

I'm completely speechless. 12 years is hard time in my state, done at the maximum security pen in Jessup.

CHEW'S TRUTH POSSE believe me when I say I politely...

5)congratulated him on his newfound freedom & wished him well but I got the hell away from him & out of there.

I know when a man is interested & while I don't doubt some woman will snap him up, I am NOT her

My mom & real life friends here continue to laugh. Only at Walmart./EJC