UNUSUAL BIRTHDAY STORY PART II
"Allow me to help you please" I said like a true gentleman (which I am). I scanned her items adroitly before she could utter a word of protest. It was only when I attempted to pay that she spoke for the first time. She refused my offer but I had earned her trust. She thanked me and mentioned her name to me. I told her mine. "Today is my birthday", she said completely out of the blue. I was taken aback. "Today is my birthday too", I said. But she wasn't even slightly taken aback. So I was taken aback again that she wasn't taken aback. But she is an elderly person and elderly people seem to know everything. I half-expected her to say "and I know you called in sick at work because they won't give you the day off and there are a truckload of men in your house consuming all your chicken and Pepsi" . But of course she didn't say that. "How are you celebrating?" "Not doing much really? I'