woodguru wrote:
So I'm in Safeway Thursday, light crowd, eggs and milk restocked, plenty of bread and baked goods...no TP, paper towels, or hand sanitizer. I needed a couple of big packs of paper towels for my wife's veterinary clinics, she goes through a lot constantly wiping down and sterilizing surfaces between appointments.
Two older farts (I'm getting there myself) were standing by the produce section laughing hysterically about the stupidity of the over reaction to this whole thing...and here's where a heightened sense of humor gets me in trouble...
I walk behind them, they moved out of the way toward the produce cooler, watching me. I go into an emmy caliber coughing and hacking fit, bending over like I can't even stand up through it, it was truly epic. These two scrambled away from me into the refrigerator, one almost falling, and I thought oh crap, the old fart is going to go down and break a hip. I stood up, no cough whatsoever, and said "now that right there was some funny chit".
To say they were pissed is a profound understatement, they were so deeply livid they couldn't even talk. Three of four who had seen it were in hysterics, trust me this was way funnier in person, those two guys reaction was priceless.
My wife said she was seriously glad she wasn't with me, I said come on, give it up, you would have laughed, and she said that's why she is glad she wasn't with me.
In reference to what it meant, why were these guys so freaked out when they had just been laughing about what BS this was? My theory is that people who talk that crap know it's serious, but they talk the crap anyway.
So I'm in Safeway Thursday, light crowd, eggs and ... (
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Maybe they thought you had TB.