JUST A USUAL FRIDAY MORNING

Every Friday morning, my friend Rena and I go for brunch. Sometimes it's to the mall or Angel's in Nayot. Doesn't matter where we go...we always eat the same thing and spend hours talking and laughing.

After checking out the menus, we always settle for two scrambled eggs and salad...coffee and I get a diet Coke.

When we're in the mall (Malcha Mall down the road from my place) we usually end up in the Supermarket. Now you would think that two grown women would have better places to go to have fun, but not us. We look, we comparative shop, we walk up and down the aisles and keep a running conversation as we fill up the shopping cart.

Today I needed some 5% salad dressing and she needed some of that stuff you put into the toilet to make nice. You know what I mean. That blue stuff that seeps out of the container when you flush. (Is this too much information for you?)

Here is our conversation:
M: Here it is.
R: I don't want stuff that stinks. How will I know what it smells like?
M: I don't know. My kid gets this blue one in the three pack. Twenty-one shekels for three of them.
R: What's this? (She asked holding up a different kind of toilet thingee.)
M: I don't know. They all look the same to me.
R: But how do you work this?
M: Says that you push something into something and then pull something out.
R: What do you pull out?
M: Beats me. Looks like this white thingee under the bottle.
R: But how do you get it out?
M: I think you shlep this thing. Listen to us. Two college graduates and we can't figure out how to put in a toilet thing.
AT THIS POINT WE NOTICED A MAN STANDING NEXT TO US.
R: I don't know. Maybe I should get the three pack.
M: That's what we use.
R: But how do I know what it smells like? I don't want stinky stuff.
M: I have no idea. I told you we get this blue one.
R: Wait. It tells what scent it has. This one is peach. I don't want peach.
M: Then don't get it. Look, there's apple, and peach and the blue stuff and one that says Classic.
R: I don't know which to get.
M: Listen. Pick one. They're not diamonds! If you don't like it throw them in the garbage! They only cost twenty-one shekels.

She laughed, took the blue three pack and we walked to find the salad dressing. About five seconds later I turned around to tell her something when I noticed the man walking behind me and grinning from ear to ear.

Shrugging my shoulders, I smiled at him and burst out laughing. I can just imagine what he was thinking. First of all he knew we weren't big on the cleaning department as any of THOSE women would have known what to buy. Second, he knew that any man who had those toilet thingees on their list would have grabbed the first one he found and walked away...if he would have had that on his list at all. Third, he must have thought what stupid broads. But finally, he had to know that we were bright, funny women who were picking out toilet stuff like someone else goes shopping for a Picasso.

And, he had a great sense of humour and appreciated ours too. We laughed for twenty minutes in the supermarket as we thought of all the things he must have been thinking. But, he didn't walk away. He stayed till the bitter end wondering how we would solve the problem of the stinky toilet stuff.

Yahooooo. Good to laugh.

A sweet shabbat shalom. ( a peaceful weekend)

Have a great day...stay safe...and thanks for dropping in.