So, MFH (My Favorite Husband) and I went to our local Utility Co-op Open House today.  They had free food, door prizes, health screening….

We were waiting for our turn at the cholesterol blood draw and there were a lot of people there.  The place was packed!  I was talking to a Utility employee at the time…

He said to me, “Looks like you have been out in the sun a bit, Ma’am.”  (I have quite the tan from my sports bra and unfortunately, the strap marks do not match my shirts and they show.  A lot.)

I replied that yes, I do spend a lot of time outdoors.

He asked what I do to get that deep of a tan.

I told him that I am a runner.

That led to the inevitable conversation about how he would run but his knees are too bad, blah, blah, blah.

I nodded politely and listened.  He was really warming up the his subject when all of a sudden, quite loudly, a voice interrupted!

“Ma’am!  Do you still have those chickens in your house!?”

My head snapped up.

I looked around and sure enough, there was one of the men who installed our new heating/air conditioning unit this past Winter.  That man, bless his heart, worked in our house around one dog, two cats, one bunny and four baby chickens.  He must have thought he was in a barn.

I laughed!

I assured him that the baby chickens were all grown up and out of the house.  Finally!

He thought that was pretty funny.

The guy talking about his knees and how he could not run was left scratching his head because it was my turn to get my blood draw.  I did not see him again.  I did, however, notice that I got a lot of strange looks from people who had overheard this exchange.

There is no accounting for who you will run into in a crowd of people!    🙂