I love purses a lot…..a whole lot! I have purses of every shape, size, color and price range so I really didn’t need a new purse but I wanted a new purse. The reason I like purses so much is because they are the one thing that you can buy that doesn’t make your butt look big. As a matter of a fact if you get a really big purse it can actually make your butt look smaller!
Anyway, I went shopping the other day and I found the purse of my dreams. (Maybe it wasn’t really the purse of my dreams but that is what I told Devin so he would know how much I wanted it). I didn’t buy it that day but I went back a few days later and it was still there! I take that as a sign from God that I am supposed to get it :-). I quickly grabbed the purse and headed for the register. I was like a kid with a brand new toy. As I was checking out, I started a conversation with the cashier. She told me she liked my nails and I told her I like her hair, you know, girl talk. After I had paid for the purse I thought, I really want to use my new purse today so I said to the cashier, “do you have some scissors that I can use?” “Sure” she said, and she handed me a pair. I very discreetly slipped the scissors into my bag and snipped off the tags so that when I got in my car I could transfer all of my belongings in to my new purse.When I was finished I quietly handed them back to the cashier and said, “thank you”. Just as I was about to grab my bag and leave, this lady in the line next to me said, “you might be a red neck if y
ou wear, out of the store, what you just bought.”
[silence]
What did she just say?
Did she just call me a red neck?
Did I hear her correctly? She don’t know she is fixin’ to draw back a nub!!!!
This felt like a scene right out of Sweet Home Alabama! One million things ran through my mind. So many things I wanted to say. I wanted to say, “Sugar, if I was a red neck you would be pickin’ yourself up off the floor ’bout right now!” But I didn’t, I just smiled like a true southern lady, turned around on my high heel and thought, Bless her heart……she dont know.
Or worse, she is fortunate you didn’t tell her boss !! That was pretty rude !!
That was a tongue tamer !!
she wasn’t an employee she was another customer!
It takes a sassy classy lady to carry a cowhide purse!!
Tonya Rohr, I love u!!! You’re the greatest!!! I felt like I was reading my own thoughts lol! I will def remember this the next time I’m tempted to fire off with a comeback ;D
Don’t tell anyone (hehe) but….I keep a pair of scissors in my glove box for such occasions.
Tonya, I bought a purse at a conference booth last year. Mine I was carrying was so worn out I switched my purse right there and threw my old one in the trash. I love reading about your life. 🙂
Well…you might be a red-neck if you make a rude comment to the people you are in line with at the register! You are better than me cuz I would have said, “Excuse me! Are you speaking to me!” Then I would have given her the stare, ya know the one, then looked her up and down with THE smirk on my face. And then I would have ‘umph’ at her!
So glad I am not the only one that THAT term aggrivates! That crawls all over me! Let me at her!