Wasn’t Born In The Pumpkin Patch
(It’s fall, time for pumpkin and pumpkin spice everything. I run to the store to get canned pumpkin, and I’m having trouble finding it. I look in three aisles I think it might be in, as well as at the ends of some aisles in case it’s in a special pumpkin display. No luck, so I’m getting frustrated. This store always has excellent customer service, so an employee stops to help.)
Employee: “Can I help you find something?”
Me: *speaking very fast, I’m so frazzled by now* “Yes, please! I’m looking for canned pumpkin. I’ve looked with baking, canned vegetables, and canned fruit, but I can’t find it.”
Employee: “What is it you’re looking for?”
Me: *speaking at a normal pace* “Canned pumpkin.”
Employee: “Can… what?”
Me: “Pumpkin.”
Employee: “Can you spell that?”
(He pulls out what looks like his phone, or a hand-held computer, to try to look it up. I spell it and he types in “pumping.”)
Employee: “I don’t know…”
Me: “Like just a can of pumpkin. For pumpkin pie.”
Employee: “I don’t know what that is.”
(All of a sudden, I see it up the top shelf.)
Me: “Oh! There it is! Thank God. Thanks for your help.”
(As I rushed away, he went over to look at this mystery item he’d never heard of. Not sure how he’s gotten through life never hearing about pumpkin, in this pumpkin/pumpkin-spiced obsessed society! I appreciate his efforts to try to help me!)
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