Walmart Confessions
“Sometimes grocery shopping isn’t about groceries at all…”~Random Life Absurdities~
Driving home, completely exhausted, I remembered Gozer—that face only a mother can love, with those big bulgy eyes and crooked teeth crimping the cutest bite, and folding a little tuck to show a hiding underbite. Despite how adorable my fur baby is, his charm does not pull off when he decides to cop a squat and pee in the house, so he gets to wear big-boy undies with disposable pads. I usually just grab the biggest and cheapest pads because, well… it’s pee, for heaven’s sake. Not that blood is any different, but… yea…
Anyways, I end up at Wally World, and some guy passes my cart while checking it out and stops me to say…
“You know, that just reminds me,” he starts…
He begins to tell a story about how he has vivid memories of being an only boy growing up with women, saying how the cycles would be so bad and the doctors would just prescribe advice to “DEAL WITH IT!”
Totally in shock, I don’t think I have ever been stopped to have such a conversation with a stranger before. I smile with cringe…
He adds, “I totally understand what you guys have to go through, and I think it’s just so terrible, but my hat truly goes off to you…”
Still kinda stuck and at a loss for words, I had to break it to him that the big, bulky, ridiculously looking pads were actually for my pee monster of a dog, and I, fortunately, don’t suffer from a hemorrhaging organ falling from my britches.
He didn’t seem to care and kept on with the storytelling even as I inched my way slowly backward.
He stood there, realizing he was very much alone in his thoughts after a while, while I was making a dash to the checkout lines.
Wild horses couldn’t stop me.
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