It's Like They're Reading My Diary

CNN, about the Mercedes CLS: Sexy, but a little weird

If I had a nickel for every ex-boyfriend I could use that phrase to describe...I could probably buy that Mercedes.

I was in Buffalo Exchange this week using up a store credit before it expired, and the woman who rang up my shirt (47 cents out of pocket) was wearing a shirt that said DITCH HIM.

I said "If only you'd been around wearing that shirt when I was in my early 20's, it would have saved me a lot of grief."

She said, laughing, "You know, every woman who sees me wearing this shirt says something like that..."

There was additional desultory conversation, during which I felt the need to state that I am now over 30, probably because I feel so out of place in Buffalo Exchange that I'm compelled to broadcast that I am not trying and failing to fit in, I'm JUST SHOPPING.

However, it didn't occur to me until now how boring she must find that conversation after the first five times it happened. Shame on me for making that joke!