Summer Friend: Overheard at Target

Overheard at Target

"Well, there's fifty-six dollars in two plastic bags."

9 comments:

Angela said...: Ha! I love scribbling down the fun things overheard.

Yesterday at the movie theatre a little gils was dragging her feet and looking over her shoulder. She told her mother. "We should go back and sit down because I think they are going to play one more."; April 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Kimbra Kasch said...: Strange things make my ears perk up.; April 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Charles Gramlich said...: Sounds like a story there; April 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Rena Jones said...: Sounds familiar to me.; April 26, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Sandy Nawrot said...: I'm impressed that the person made it out of Target for only fifty six bucks. According to my studies, I can't make it out for under a hundred...; April 26, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Travis Erwin said...: Sad, but far too easy to do.; April 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Christina Farley said...: Funny! I just started reading your book. Love your voice.; April 28, 2009 at 6:38 AM
Mary Witzl said...: But...why? Why $56, and in TWO separate plastic bags? Weird. That would have kept me up all night.; April 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM
AprilGarden said...: That is HiLaRiOuS!!!!
:D; May 1, 2009 at 6:45 PM

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