beetiger

I'm home from work today, having had another appointment to get Mothra's picture taken, and then to give blood. Then I went grocery shopping. Maybe it's just that people like to talk to pregnant women, or maybe I looked in need of interaction but:

-several stocking clerks said hello to me, and one cheerfully told me not to worry that I'd knocked some stuff over.

-a man in the seafood department noticed my appearance enough to smile and say: "I think you gave too much blood today. Your fingers are turning blue." (I used the morning part of my hookey day to paint my nails electric blue. Pregnancy has been good to them, and they are long.) I'm pretty sure he was flirting. This never ever happens to me in grocery stores.

-a woman on line chatted with me about secret methods to figure out which line will move faster. She talked to me first.

-The checker asked me if I'd "found everything okay". I have been shopping in this store for years. No one has ever asked that.

It was pleasant, if bizarre.