The cashier asks, “Are you married?”
Confused, I look up and ask, “Excuse me?”
The cashier leans over to look for a ring on my left hand and repeats her question.
As I start to answer no, she points the two loaves of bread that she just scanned and states, “Your wife must have asked you to get those.”
Perplexed as to what bread has to do with being married, I reply “No, I am not married.”
She then asks, “Well, why else would you be buying that bread? Do you have allergies?”
I look at the bread and remember that it is not the ‘traditional’ type of bread for it is wheat-free and from the frozen food section. I indicated that it was not so much for allergies, but me just wanting to get off of wheat for a while. At hearing this, she opens up that her daughter is allergic to wheat and that she bought bread like that for her daughter once. Being the good mom, she decided that she would try the bread first before having her daughter eat it. She did not like and, therefore, she never gave it to her daughter.
This was a conversation that happened to me today as I was checking out of the grocery store that I thought was necessary to share. I am still confused as to the relationship between buying wheat-free bread and being married, though. Maybe that has been my problem all these years – ladies see my buying that type of bread and they assume that I am taken!