On Saturday night I went to Wal-Mart to pick up a couple of things. Checking out at the Germantown Wal-Mart is usually a terrible, slow experience, regardless of how many cashiers they have working. Fortunately, I was happy to find myself almost immediately in front of a cashier in the 15 items or less line.
As he rang up my stuff, the early twenty-something cashier said something I didn't catch.
"Excuse me?" I said.
He said the same thing again and I still didn't quite catch it. Then I realized he had said my "Scarlet A" was cool. He was talking about the Red "A" pin I've been wearing for the last few years.
I said thanks, and quite effusively, "You are the first person ever to acknowledge the pin and know what it means."
He asked where I got it and I told him they were for sale at the Richard Dawkins website. He said that he has a Darwin fish on his car. I told him I was a little afraid of putting one on mine for fear of getting my car key-scratched. He said he's never had any trouble.
After he rang me up I shook his hand and departed happy, feeling a little joint fellowship and a little bit more connected to humanity.
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