Careers Are Made at Wal-Mart

Did you know I should model? Yes, I have completely missed my calling. Or so say the guys who use such lame pick-up lines. They obviously haven't seen how graceless I am, or how many times I fell down the stairs when we first moved into the house. And yet they insist. Which leads me to my adventure this morning...

First of all, it was at Wal-Mart. How many great stories have started this way? That and 'hold my beer.' God bless America. You never know who or what you'll find. It's always great people watching, like the time everyone was staring at the girl walking through the store wearing a Rogue costume in August- oh wait, that was me.

Well anyway, I popped in to get light bulbs, a meat thermometer, and hamburgers for a science project that's due next week...and was assigned more than six weeks ago. My son's motto- if it's not due today, why start early?

So I'm in the light bulb aisle- did you know there is an Entire aisle for light bulbs?? and an older man walks towards me looking me up and down. I'm tall anyway, but in boots, it's even more obvious. He boldly announced that I had the nicest legs he'd even seen- and he was a professional photographer, so he should know. This was followed by him asking if I model, had I ever thought of modeling, and would I be interested in doing some promotional modeling? I laughed at him, but hey, it's Monday and I needed the ego boost. I got the guy's card. Who knows? Maybe someday you'll see this old mama out on the runway all because of a morning shopping trip.