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January 5th, 2009...

“How much are these cookies?”

One of the after-school regulars was at the counter inspecting a pac of heart shaped vegan cookies that look like bird suet.

“Two-fifty plus some tax,” I answered.

Wow. A kid who is thinking healthy.

“Are they good?” she asked.

Go ahead, Read on!

“Very good,” I said and then cautioned, “Now look, they’re healthy for ya. That means not so much sugar, chewy whole grain. You have to have a taste for something like that.”

Geez. I don’t want to have to refund a half-eaten cookie to this kid because (inserting a whiny voice here in my imagination) “It doesn’t taste good.”

“Do you like them?” she asked.

Judas Priest.

“I like them a lot and eat them all the time.”

She looked at me. “Then I guess my horse should really like them.”

“You’re buying them for your horse?”

“Yeah.”

“Because I like them, you think your horse will (pause, pause, get it right) really like them? She laughs.

“Yeah I guess so.”

I love it. This kid’s a stitch.

 
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