Conversations at CVS
I am standing in line with a handful of cleaning products, additions to my arsenal in my ongoing war against my horrible fiberglass shower tub surround which gets dingy if you look at it crosseyed and won't get clean no matter what I do to it. At the counter are three young guys buying cigarillos...if they were over 18 it was just barely. CVS is running a fundraiser for ALS and the cashier asks them if they want to donate a dollar.
Guy 1: Nah.
Guy 2: What's ALS?
Cashier: Lou Gehrig's disease.
Guy 3: Is it a brain thing?
Cashier: I think so.
Guy 1: Didn't somebody famous have that?
Cashier: (blank face) Like Lou Gehrig?
Me: *snicker*
Guy 1: (oblivious) No, somebody else...some guy, he was on TV...
Cashier: Doesn't ring a bell.
Guys: *leave*
Me: *goes to counter*
Cashier: *rings me up* What is ALS, anyway?
Me: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It's a degenerative nerve disease.
Cashier: Did somebody else have it besides Lou Gehrig?
Me: Some other famous people have it but I can't think who at the moment.
Cashier: What did Christopher Reeve have?
Me: *beat* He fell off a horse.
Cashier: Oh. *laughs*
Now I feel dumb because I've looked it up and Stephen Hawking has ALS. David Niven had it too, which I didn't know.
Guy 1: Nah.
Guy 2: What's ALS?
Cashier: Lou Gehrig's disease.
Guy 3: Is it a brain thing?
Cashier: I think so.
Guy 1: Didn't somebody famous have that?
Cashier: (blank face) Like Lou Gehrig?
Me: *snicker*
Guy 1: (oblivious) No, somebody else...some guy, he was on TV...
Cashier: Doesn't ring a bell.
Guys: *leave*
Me: *goes to counter*
Cashier: *rings me up* What is ALS, anyway?
Me: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It's a degenerative nerve disease.
Cashier: Did somebody else have it besides Lou Gehrig?
Me: Some other famous people have it but I can't think who at the moment.
Cashier: What did Christopher Reeve have?
Me: *beat* He fell off a horse.
Cashier: Oh. *laughs*
Now I feel dumb because I've looked it up and Stephen Hawking has ALS. David Niven had it too, which I didn't know.