Monday, October 03, 2005

A Weird Little Observation...


My Donut Holes!
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Man...I can't believe it's already October. The air is kind of crispy in the mornings...fall is on it's way. We're getting just a little preview.

I have a weird little observation. It's been going on for, well I guess several years now. There's a little donut place a few blocks from our house. Just a little mom and pop place. The boys and I used to walk down there every couple of weeks or so. Tyler would always get a couple of maple bars and Tanner always bought donut holes. So would mom. (that's me :)
Anyway, they're pretty good donuts and even better donut holes. Today felt like a donut hole kind of day. So I decided to stop and get a dozen for the drive to work. I know I know ... I should be _walking_ to work and _NOT_ be buying goodies. But o well. It's been a while. So back to the observation...

There's this girl who's been working there for several years. Part of the family I believe. She always works the drive-thru. And if I'm by myself, I always use the drive-thru. Over the years, I've noticed that when she hands out the tiny bag of goodies, she takes great care not to touch my hand. When she takes my money, she grabs it by the corner of the bill and kind of, but not really, snatches it out of my hand. When she gives me my change, she holds the coins by the absolute least amount possible to keep from losing it, and drops it into my outstretched hand. I believe she has a hand phobia! I have never seen her wear and gloves or any hand covering in all the time we've been buying donuts there. So it's not just she wants to keep her hands clean.

It's almost become a contest to MAKE her touch my hand. Okay, now I know she works in a food place. I know she prepares food. and I know she probably has a hundred or more customers every morning. Some of them probably have yucky, filthy hands. Hands are just not the cleanest things in the world. But COME ON!! Money is the DIRTIEST thing on the planet! If you're going to be weird about touching people's hands, shouldn't you be the same kind of weird about handling money??

I think I'm going to send her a box of nitrile gloves. Just because.

Weird observation over.
Posted by Randi at Monday, October 03, 2005

2 comments:

truckdriver_sefl said...

Randi that is weird. I kinda like the glove idea lol!

10/03/2005 8:41 PM
truckdriver_sefl said...

By the way thanks for the comments about my friend Cliff. That whole thing just caught me off guard when it happened. During that very same week he too his life someone who was starting to become very dear in my life stepped out of it for awhile and it was a bunch my fault by the way because I didnt tell them how I felt about them.Even when this person came back they were going through a bunch at the time so I still didnt tell. I am lucky and get to talk to this friend every day now and they know where I stand without a shadow of a doubt. I ask lots of questions and I sure I go overboard but I just know that true friendships are very hard to come by and I will do all I can to guard this one from anything. I do still think about Cliff all the time its sad he left behind a wonderful young son who has the brains to be anything he want to be and now he has no father to watch him play sports or be at the top of his class. I have to wonder if I had taken more time but I will never know so now I will be the best friend I can be to my best friend.

10/04/2005 8:21 PM

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