Have you ever done this?
I did it yesterday.
And I am still cringing.
Oh… PLEASE make the memory disappear.
Barry and I were at a little farm stand, just having the best ‘ol summer time picking out beautiful ripe tomatoes, sun-touched corn, perfect peppers, luscious squash and nice, firm cucumbers.
Maybe it’s the cucumbers that got me into trouble. Hmmm.
Anyway, the farm stand was about four-deep with people hungering for the last days of summer, and a couple of people began to push just a teeny bit in their enthusiasm. One older “lady” was being kind-of pushed/leaned into Barry in an awkward way, so I said to Barry (very kind of me, huh?), “Honey, that lady wants to get by.”
Just tryin’ to help.
My husband shot me a glance that could fry tomatoes.
I thought to myself, “Hey, just trying to help a lady out.”
Well, the “lady” was a man. Well, he was a man who looked an awful lot like a lady. Hence, the “look” from Barry.
OK. I stood there. Trapped.
I locked my eyes on the cucumbers.
“These look nice, ” I said.
Well, maybe the “lady” could have given me a little more of a hint… !
5 responses so far ↓
1 Karen (Pediascribe) // Aug 25, 2008 at 9:30 am
Happened to me at IKEA the other day. Figure like a woman. Voice like a man. Talking “man stuff.” Beautiful skin–no man stubble.
Luckily I didn’t say anything, but it was like a car wreck. I couldn’t stop glancing over there as (s)he talked to his/her friends (all women, btw)
2 Heather // Aug 25, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Hilarious. I’ve been in the same situation recently except that instead of me calling out the wrong gender, it was my three year old. And it was LOUD. When I quietly told him that the man was actually a lady, he said, “Well why does she look like a man, then?”
3 MomOf3 // Aug 26, 2008 at 9:28 am
Sometimes people make it difficult to tell!
4 trisha // Aug 26, 2008 at 2:56 pm
LMAO!!! Thats funny.
trisha
5 Jen @ One Moms World // Aug 27, 2008 at 12:30 am
I tell ya these days, you just don’t know LOL. Too funny though hehe!!
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