Shopping Trip, Part II

It is beginning to look like I can’t have a normal shopping trip anymore……

I was in the checkout line at Wisconsin’s very own Man Store (if you can’t buy it there, you don’t need it) and behind me a few spots was a 20 something male and a woman in her mid 50’s. I noticed them earlier shopping because they both were wearing dark sunglasses in the store, which I thought was odd. They were both wearing workout suits but it was fairly obvious from looking at them that neither wore them for that use.

The store had very few lines and consequently, the few lines were long. As soon as they got in line they began to talk with one another. The both had a soft southern accent that reminded me of a Tennessee or Kentucky drawl. After a few seconds of small talk, the 20 something started saying repeatedly “only in America” with a dismal tone in his voice. The woman asks what he means. He goes on about “only in America” would people be willing to wait in lines like this. He continued on, with a touch of smugness in his voice that no where else would people be willing to wait like this and he offered up Germany as an example. The Germans wouldn’t wait in line like this he stated emphatically. They just wouldn’t he said. He got back on to muttering “only in America” dismally.

The woman gave up a little “I know” with an air of understanding. She continued on that “that was why she was voting for Obama-he’s gonna change things”. She then added that the “McCain-fella scares” her.

Yep, “only in America” would someone link their Presidential vote to waiting in line at the Man’s Mall.