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I found myself in the center of downtown St. Petersburg tonight. I did so, however, because I work there, not by sheer chance or coincidence. So there I was, at the Sunglass Hut, which isn't a hut at all so much as an actual retail store, from the hours of about three PM to about nine PM. It was at about seven PM when the events that even make this short story worth telling transpired.
This old couple...well, old doesn't really do them justice I suppose, when they seemed late forties at best. So I greet this middle aged couple, probably around mid to later forties, that comes into the store tonight. The gentleman, a heavier set guy, he's looking for some Oakleys; Juliet's, no, XX's to be exact, which happen to be a quite large, metal framed Oakley. He sees our only pair and tried them on, commenting politely on how they're twenty five dollars cheaper than when he bought his. His wife came over to where he was, commented on the glasses, and then tried on similar, yet smaller styles, to which they each compared and contrasted her look from one pair to another. Her husband turned toward the other side of the store and said back to her, "see anything you can't live without?" He asked this twice, I believe, the first time met with no real response, and the second time to a simple, "nope, I'm good." In any event, it was a fun scene as they seemed quite happy together. She walked down the aisle, if it can even be called that in a roughly twenty two foot by fourteen foot store, and came slowly to the clearance glasses then to the watches which followed.
A couple minutes had passed by now, and her husband ended up cutting slowly across the center of the store to approach her from behind, seemingly trying to peer at what she peered. He said to her one last time, as if to let her know anything in the store she desired, if even on a whim, could be hers, "see anything you can't live without?" She turned around to face him, putting both her arms over his shoulders as I tried to avert my gaze, and said quite simply...
"Yup."
This old couple...well, old doesn't really do them justice I suppose, when they seemed late forties at best. So I greet this middle aged couple, probably around mid to later forties, that comes into the store tonight. The gentleman, a heavier set guy, he's looking for some Oakleys; Juliet's, no, XX's to be exact, which happen to be a quite large, metal framed Oakley. He sees our only pair and tried them on, commenting politely on how they're twenty five dollars cheaper than when he bought his. His wife came over to where he was, commented on the glasses, and then tried on similar, yet smaller styles, to which they each compared and contrasted her look from one pair to another. Her husband turned toward the other side of the store and said back to her, "see anything you can't live without?" He asked this twice, I believe, the first time met with no real response, and the second time to a simple, "nope, I'm good." In any event, it was a fun scene as they seemed quite happy together. She walked down the aisle, if it can even be called that in a roughly twenty two foot by fourteen foot store, and came slowly to the clearance glasses then to the watches which followed.
A couple minutes had passed by now, and her husband ended up cutting slowly across the center of the store to approach her from behind, seemingly trying to peer at what she peered. He said to her one last time, as if to let her know anything in the store she desired, if even on a whim, could be hers, "see anything you can't live without?" She turned around to face him, putting both her arms over his shoulders as I tried to avert my gaze, and said quite simply...
"Yup."