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15 December 2005
You Say It's Your Birthday→[More:]Actually, I say it's my birthday!
I was just in Staples and the guy behind me in line sang the entire "Happy Birthday" song to himself. Out loud. The paranoid New Yorker in me was waiting for him to pull out an Uzi and spray us all as a finishing touch. But it really was quite funny.
When the cashier asked him "did you find everything you were looking for today, sir?", he said, "well, you didn't have the USB cable I was looking for, or the type of memory card I needed, so there's that...You don't serve beer here so I can't get one of those...I'd like a T-Bone steak and a cognac, but you don't have those...I'd love one of those Penthouse Pets..."