I was just standing in line at Safeway, picking up an assortment of healthy foods.  Cheesies, cookies, ginger-ale, chocoalte, etc.

As I’m standing in line, a couple comes up behind me and they stand there.  What else can you do, to avoid looking at, or talking to, the person standing a foot away?  Well, you start looking at all the really funny magazines they have there.  The girl looks at them and sees a little book called “Natural remedies”.  She picks it up and says - “Oh, cool - natural remedies!”  The guy openly laughs, and then says:  “What, are you an idiot?”

With considerably more restraint than I could have mustered - she puts the book back and says “Why?  ’cause of the book?  I guess so, then.”   And he responds with “I’ve got a book you should read.”  Which, of course, is ridiculous, since she was just trying to pick up a book about the very subject and read it.

Now, at this point, I really wanted to know - other than that being a ridiculously rude way to talk to someone you’re with - is it the concept of natural remedies that he’s against?  Or is it this particular book?  And why would either of those cause him to think she’s an idiot if she felt like reading the book?

If I wasn’t so immersed in reading about Angelina Jolie’s weight problems, I totally would have said something.  Actually, no - I wish I had the guts to stand up for random strangers, but I really don’t.  So, to compensate for my general cowardice and inability to say anything that might actually matter to the people it applied to, I will just randomly post this on the Intertron.