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this that a gentleman, such as Yours Truly, should never enter.
• I am not sure how I got out of that store, all I can remember was a great deal of hilarious laughter thrown in my direction from inside. I just hope they did not recognize me. They probably did not, because I had all my clothes on.
• It has been a long time since that incident and now I had to go and pick up my order. I put together a plan to sneak in very quietly, pick up my order and tiptoe out as quietly as I came in.
• You know what they say about well-laid plans! Whether mine was well laid or not, it blew up in my face.
• I did slip into the mall and found the store where my order was. I picked them up and quietly turned around and started for the door. How I got turned around is any man's guess. Actually, I think it turned around too many times. For the next 15 minutes, I tried to find the way I came in so I could go out.
• The trouble started when I hesitated. I stopped to try to get my bearings and in stopping a young woman approached me.
• "How do you do today, sir," she said most cheerfully.
• I nodded and tried to get away as graciously as possible.
• She would have none of it. "And how do you smell today, sir?"
• Had I been in my right sense of mind I would have told her I smelled with my nose. Being in a confused state of affairs, I had no quick come back for her. It was then that she introduced me to her product.

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