Sitting quietly at lunch in Subway, the room was almost
empty. Besides myself, there was a table of three young guys, in their early 20’s
and a table with a youngish couple.
After a few minutes the young woman (of the couple) walked
over to the three guys and excused herself, and explained (I could not hear the
whole conversation clearly) she and her husband were opening a new business in
Dundas, and she wanted to know if they regularly came to Subway in Dundas, or
were they mainly a Westdale crowd? She excused herself a number of times for being
nosey but wanted to know. They gave her an explanation, missed by me, and she
was satisfied.
Clearly she didn’t’ want to hear from the old man as she
ignored my presence.
A few minutes later, after I was finished lunch, I got into
my car and went to the bulk Barn. I shopped and bought a number of bags of
candy items and when asked about my purchases by the young woman at the
register, I told her how every moth I brought candy to my regularly scheduled
meeting and how much fun it was for people who do not always have candy access,
to be able to choose from a whole bunch of items.
She asked what kind of a meeting I attended and I told her a
Board Meeting. She apologised for asking because she said, “It may have been an
AA meeting or something”.
OK, so here it is, I am ostracised for being an old guy and
fingered for maybe being an alcoholic or even a sex addict! This was surely
not my day!
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