Mommy at the deli counter...

This post doesn't have anything to do with me! (Insert big dramatic dog sighing sounds here.)  It's all about Mommy!

After work one day this week, Grandma told Mommy to go to the supermarket and buy lunch meat.

Grandma doesn't like when the deli department pre-slices lunchmeat because she says they slice it "too thick."

So, Grandma told Mommy to wait in line (however long it takes) and get some "extra thin" sliced ham.

So, Mommy went to the supermarket and you have to pull a number, and wait your turn in line until they call your number.  The number they were on was (95) at the time.

Mommy's number on her piece of paper was  (01).   Mommy was tired from work and just wanted to go home --  she kept repeating in her head...I'm number Zero One... I'm number Zero One...

So finally, after waiting and waiting for like 87 hundred hours.  The number they were on was Zero Zero (00).  Mommy thought in her head... I'm next.  I'm number "Zero One."

Then finally the lunchmeat man called out... "Number One."

Mommy excitedly shouted out... "I'm Number One!"  And she was waving her number way up high in the air!

Mommy kinda made a scene, shouting it out like that!  You would have thought she won a contest or was at a sporting event or something the way she said it!

She was expecting them to say "Zero One" and didn't put two and two together that her number was actually just "One" instead of "Zero One." (Like I said, Mommy was tired and wasn't thinking straight.)

So, after a bunch of people in line rolled their eyes at Mommy. (Because they were jealous that Mommy is #1 and they're not!).    Mommy said to the lunchmeat man as soon as she made her way to the counter...  I would like ham sliced "extra thin".

Mommy said, if the other customers didn't already roll their eyes at Mommy before -- they sure were rolling their eyes at Mommy now! People were kinda grumbling about how long it was gonna take for them to slice lunch meat "extra thin."  People were looking at their watches and pacing back and forth.

Then Mommy said to the lunchmeat man, "Please, I'm your #1 customer."

The lunchmeat man sliced the ham perfectly, and Mommy got out of there as quickly as possible.

Mommy is glad to have made it out of the deli department in one piece!  (Guess you had to have been there -- in hind sight, Mommy thought it was funny!)

Mommy holding the #01 paper.

 

I'm #1.

Lassie and Benji

P.S.  Mommy says...isn't it easier to just put one slice of thick sliced lunchmeat on a sandwich instead of lining up about 5 slices of extra-thinly sliced lunchmeat! 

P.P.S.  Benji and I got to taste the ham when Mommy made Grandma a sandwich -- and it was pawsome!