When Buying a Plunger...

Question:  Have you ever gone into a store with only one thing on your shopping list...a toilet plunger? 

It's not as easy as you may think - to walk into Menard's, walk back to the plumbing section, grab a plunger, walk back across Menard's, plunger in hand, pay and leave.

Everybody you walk by, all the guys in the blue smocks, the 17 year old girl at the register...everybody...knows.  They know you didn't go at Menard's for a screwdriver and thought, "Oh, wait!  I need a plunger, too." 

Well, I had the joy of this experience today.  Usually when I go to Menard's I have an entire list in my head.  All kinds of goodies in mind and a few things I run into along the way.  I walk back to the plumbing section and stand at the wall of plungers.  I grab the biggest, most professional industrial strength one I could find..."NO TURD TO TOUGH."  That's the one for me.

I made my selection and walked down the aisle.  "Wait," I thought to myself, "I need some more stuff.  I can't walk through Menard's with only a plunger."  I blushed a little.

I grabbed one of those little baskets and put the plunger in and walked around the store a while.  I didn't want it to appear to obvious there was only ONE thing I needed.  Well, one box of light bulbs, a plunger, a cordless screwdriver and a bag of maple nut goodies later, I was at the check-out.  They'll never suspect that all I really needed was a plunger.