Of Secretaries and 7-Eleven

The secretaries at Grace are pretty awesome. I walk into the office today to make copies of the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in C minor... which has absolutely no relevance to anything.

"Hey you almost college girl."
"Hi Heidi."
"Hey, I see you have a new printer."
"Yeah, sure do, when do you leave for college?"
"Oh, August sometime."
"How long are you staying?"
"Eh, three years-ish. I've got 40 credits out of the way already."
"Wow. Why didn't they have that kind of deal when I was young??"
"Have you ever heard that song (hums the tune to old quartet song)"
"I would have complained about the college credits to someone for you, but I wasn't alive. And yeah, my grandparents used to have a CD of that..."
"Grandparents?!? ...I'm not THAT old yet."
"Oh...sorry. Why is the printer beeping at me?"
"It wants you to take the paper out of it."
"Um. That's kind of ironic. Isn't it's entire reality built around being useful with paper?"
"Well yes, but this is quite the snobbish printer."
"Ah...so printers are developing personalities now, eh? Pretty soon we'll be paying for them to have therapy sessions."
(Secretaries giggle...Heidi leaves office.)

(In the hall...hilarious 7th grader)
"I didn't know you had glasses."
"I don't. Technically."
"Why are you wearing them then?"
"Only for headaches and mega-reading."
"That's cool. It's almost like a fashion accessory...the glasses I mean. Those are cute pants."
"Oh, thanks..."
"Did you get them at the mall? I think all cute things come from the mall."
"I'd disagree..."
"Well most things then! We should go shopping together again!! Anyway, got to go. Bye!"

(On the way home, stop at 7-Eleven...at the counter, follow conversation occurs.)
"That'll be $1.69"
(Hands little old man at the cash register money)
"Out of $1.75... Say, that's Pina Colada and Cherry, right?"
"Yup, sure is."
"Oh, those are the best kind of Slurpees."
"I completely agree."
"You know what makes them even better though?"
"What?"
"A shot of rum!"
"Oh...well..."
"What? You don't believe me? You should try it."
"I'm only 17. It'd be illegal."
"Oh, that doesn't matter. Back when I was a boy we didn't worry about laws like that, and I'm still alive."
"Maybe so, but I don't need alcohol..."
"Why not?"
"Well, a friend of mine once told me, 'Heidi, you're not missing anything by not drinking. Boring people drink to act the way you do all the time!"
(Silence)
"$0.06 is your change. Have a nice day."
"Thank you sir."
"But I'm telling you! If you ever get yourself some rum, you should try it! It'll change the way you think."
(Walks out of 7-Eleven)

(Laughs and thinks..."Yeah, I bet it'd change the way I think...")

And this is life. Little stuff like that makes it all the more amazing. That is all.