Sunday, December 13, 2009

In Store

The footage from the security cam shows that girl caught shoplifting had been eyeing you with interest for some time. Was she hoping you'd notice her, or making sure you didn't? There's no way to tell now, which is why you take her number, promise to call. After all, she has nimble fingers, bad judgment and indifferent taste. What more could you ask for? You consider that this might be love but discount the possibility, there being too many left over from last year. With every chance you buy you get a second one free, is how you put it to the young couple looking shy and lost and happy by the sporting Good, before directing them to Aisle 15, which is where the weddings are. "Did you take this modem to boost your illegally stolen wi-fi?" you ask the girl, and she says she did, so by the power of your company vest you take it away from her, show her to door, where she proceeds to inform you that you may now kiss her ass, but you don't take it personally because you're still thinking about what a great story this would make to tell the grandchildren the two of you are never going to have.

5 comments:

Shruti said...

:)

rakhi said...

Brilliant! :) Took the tubelight in my head a second reading before catching on.
Loved this.

Anonymous said...

I am probably missing something; but should not it be 'there being too many...', instead of 'their being too many...'?

Falstaff said...

shruti / rakhi: Thanks

Anon: You're right - my bad. All fixed now.

Indian Home Maker said...

:)