The first was with a woman, about my age, as I shelved magazines. She wanted to call my attention to a Newsweek cover story that appeared to tell President Obama that he's through. She was obviously a right-winger and delighted in the piece because she felt that the press has been too easy on the president.
I agreed with her point in an attempt to try and stay neutral, but had I known that she was trying to convert me, I would have said that both the right and the left sides of the press (in general) have been too easy on Obama. I would have noted my disappoinment that the president took so long to get us out of Iraq, and that if I remember correctly, that Guantanamo crap is still going on when the president promised to shut them down in one year. Or I could have talked about the near-death of investigative reporting, thanks to most commercial news outlets being afraid to offend their sponsors.
Well, after she started touting Romney, I'd had enough. I respectfully told this pushy person that I would be voting for Obama--that shut her up.
Much more light-hearted was the interaction between a young girl and her father in the children's section as I was there working. Hey, I can keep a straight face when someone farts in a public place, but with what this little girl was saying, I almost lost it. It was
hard to hold a snicker over this:
Girl: "Daddy, will you read to me?"
Father: "How about reading to me?"
Girl: "No, you read to me...spank your butt!"