What We Did Today (Also Entitled: Why I Will Stare At You if You're Wearing a Face Mask in Public)

Yikes! Ridiculously long title.

Today Sarah and I took the boys to a movie and out to lunch before all the Christmas madness begins. We also made them do a small amount of shopping with us. Nothing too complicated, just Sam's and Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Seriously though, it's about all I could take. I thought that maybe on a Monday afternoon there wouldn't be too many crowds. Wrong. It was a madhouse.

Whilst checking out at Sam's, I looked across the way and saw a lady holding a mask over her face. Of course, my curiosity was piqued, and I proceeded to stare at her without shame (yes, I know that's extremely tacky, and no, I wasn't as blatant as I sound). I had already seen her around the store, and she had not had a mask on any of the times I had passed her and been sharing an airspace with her. At first, I thought she may just be a huge hypochondriac like myself and didn't want to catch anything. But then she took off the mask to talk to the checker, and everytime she spoke, she covered her mouth with her wallet. But alas, I suppose the wallet wasn't good enough because she started covering her mouth with her hand, and then she would take her hand away from her mouth and touch the keypad. You know, because covering your mouth does a whole lot of good when you turn around and touch everything within reach. Y'all I kid you not, I would not have been able to stand there and continue checking her out as if nothing was wrong. Clearly she had some sort of contagious ailment, and all I could think about was "Contagion". Which I didn't actually watch by the way. Really people, if you are sick enough to require a face mask, keep yourself at home and don't contaminate the rest of the free world. Thank you.

In less traumatizing news, Andrew apparently thinks I'm completely deaf because he has now told three different people, within six feet of me, exactly what he got me for Christmas. And then he says, "Shhhh, don't tell my Mommy!" Ummm, hello child I'm standing right here. And he got me a red, flower necklace from the costume jewelry section of JcPenney's. He showed it to me before he hid it from me and headed off with my mom to buy it. He doesn't get it.