Silly Shopper! Tinsel Deely Bobbers are for kids!
Silly shopper! Tinsel Deely bobbers are for kids!
I decided to wear my Tinsel Deely Bobber headband into Olive Garden – while sitting at the bar area, eating my appetizer; before going food shopping. I got to interract and have fun with a mom and her 4 daughters, sitting in a booth, near me. The littlest girl was belting out HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! So, I went over and gave her a Laughter Club CHEER! with a big YEAH! She smiled and her mom thanked me. Before I left, I gave her a couple of my smiley face bookmarks and an ‘I Love to LAFOLOT, it’s Healthy! pin; telling her, YOU WIN THE PRIZE FOR BEST SINGING VOICE! She smiled brightly and jumped up and down in excitement. I let her mom know I was a laughter yoga instructor. I then sang the HA HA Happy Birthday song to the eldest daughter, when I found out it was her Birthday.
I headed over to do my food shopping and wore my Tinsel Deelby Bobber headband into the grocery store. On my way in, I passed a mom with her two toddlers – telling them to Look! Look! So I shook my head and made the bells ring on the headband.
The FUNNY thing is, when I play my SMILE game to see how many smiles I get returned, when I’m NOT wearing my headband, I get a lot of smiles. It was different – I got a lot of people avoiding my glance, looking down, keeping straight looks on their faces! It was interesting!
When I first entered the store, and picked up a small shopping cart – I headed directly for my younger sister’s friend Lynn. She works at the ’speedy checkout’ line. Her back was turned to me, so I snuck up and was going to nudge her with my cart like a fake accident, but she turned around and saw me. She was hollering at me (as is her nature – be a very outgoing person) WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU WEARING!? I talked to her briefly and headed on my way.
As I said, I had MORE people avoiding me – guess that thought I was ‘questionable!’ HA HA When I got to the Greeting Card aisle, I had to head down the aisle. There was a woman in a red skirt with white trim and a red cap with white trip (like Santa). I headed directly towards her and said: ‘YOU GOT A LOT OF NERVE COMING IN HERE DRESSED LIKE THAT!’ She looked up, saw my Tinsel Headband and laughed. Yes, she said – people are looking at me strangely, too! What’s up with that? HA HA
Then, I found one of the store ‘cart collectors and baggers’ in an aisle with two huge bags of ‘paper trash’. I said: ARE THOSE SANTA’S SACKS!?’ He gave me a big smile. I don’t know his name; the store hires ‘developmentally challenged’, ‘loving souls’ to collect carts and do bagging. This guy is great, always has a smile and is fun to talk to.
When I went into the juice aisle, a woman and her husband were shopping. He nearly stepped back into me before his wife warned him to STOP! I said: ‘Yes, don’t step on the rheindeer!’ He laughed as he turned and said: ‘Oh No! Wouldn’t want to do that, rheindeers can attack!’ We laughed as we went our separate ways. I finished my shopping and didn’t realize I was passing the same man coming out of another aisle. The funny part is, his black baseball cap had a silhouette of an ALIEN on the front! I said to him: ‘Oh, I didn’t see your Alien hat earlier!’ THEN, I realized whey HE hadn’t minded my tinsel headband!
So – I went to the SPEEDY checkout and encountered my sister’s friend ‘Lynn’ – once again. The funny thing is, Lynn tends to talk away at me while I’m scanning my groceries, and she leans on the bagging area. This causes the ‘loudly talking’ automated voice to constantly shout out errors. ‘PLEASE PUT THE LAST ITEM BACK IN THE BAG!’ ‘PLEASE RESCAN THE LAST ITEM!’ HA HA Then, she started taking my food items out of the bag, after I would scan them to see what I had bought! This caused the automated voice to squawk even more: ‘PLEASE PUT THE LAST ITEM, BACK IN THE BAG!’ ha ha ha I had to keep telling the other attendant to clear the errors so I could continue! Then, what does Lynn say? ‘YOU HAVE TO WATCH ‘THIS’ ONE!”
Oh geez!
The wonderful thing is, the cart collector/bagging guy then came up to me, he was heading out of the store, too. He mentioned that he REALLY liked my tinsel headband. I told him I had some in my car, if he wanted one and wanted to follow me, I’d give him one as a gift. He put a BIG SMILE on his face and said yes, he’d walk out with me. Once I gave it to him, he said he’d wait till later next week to wear it. I said: ‘WHY? JUST START WEARING IT NOW AND HAVE SOME FUN! IT WILL MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH AND SMILE!’ He was thrilled he had been given permission to start wearing it sooner, gave me a big smile and thanked me!
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm and is filed under Ha Ha Helen Blog.
