Embarassment at the Big Box Store

Red-faced Sue made a dash for the exit.

Embarrassment at the Big Box Store

 

By Elton Camp

 

Sue was checking out at the crowded store

Then occurred something that she did abhor

 

Although the checker tried to do it twice,

A bar code just wouldn’t scan�"no dice

 

So, loudly over the store’s public address

The equipment malfunction he did confess

 

“On super size Tampax I need a price check.”

It was misheard as “thumbtacks,” then heck

 

Over the public address system came the call

That was unavoidably heard by one and all

 

And so loudly the question then did come

“Is that the type you push in with your thumb?”

 

“Or is the missing price you need me to trace

Ones that with a hammer you drive into place?”

 

Red-faced Sue made a mad dash for the door

And resolved never to shop there anymore