" Can She Cook ? "

 

This afternoon I was sitting in my car in front of our IGA supermarket just minding my own business ..... simply whiling away the time ...... while Fluff ran a few errands inside. A wee old lady exited the store and headed in my direction. I noted she was carrying two bags.... one with three big cartons of milk ( easily identifiable through the thin plastic sack ) , the other with a stock of celery stickng out of the top. I remember the milk because I said to myself , " Good girl ! Milk's good for a "seanbhean " like yourself !" Now all this time I was listening to the radio and recall seeing just her silhouette pass by the pasenger side of my car. Then followed two loud thuds on the trunk of the car. I started to spin around ..... when all of a sudden the passenger door flew open and an arm .... and a hand , of course .... ... shot inside . It was the old lady and she was reaching the for lock  button on the back door !! She looked at me and immediately went red and flustered .... explaining that her husband had an indigo - coloured Toyota Corolla like mine. Truly an honest mistake !   

The poor woman , in a moment of distraction , had walked right by her husband sitting in his car almost directly across from me and was now trying to go home with me. LOL. He had seen her walk by and let her go. At the very moment she was pointing  him out to me the old fellow stepped out of his car so I stuck my head out the window and called out to him , "Can she cook ? If she can , I'm keeping her !" He laughed back and it ended there. That was the second time on the same parking lot in the last 15 years. That first time the woman got in and closed the door before she realized she was in the wrong car with the wrong guy !!