BuckSpin - A Year Of Change

This is dedicated to all those of the O35…

Last night I went grocery shopping after work. I like going grocery shopping. If that makes me an rarity for the male gender so be it. It was dusk in Maine and the light from what was left of the sun was low and dramatic. Being unusually warm for late October, I did not need a coat, which is saying something given my now pathetic excuse of an subcutaneous R Value.

I was wearing what I had worn to work - a pair of boot cut jeans and a buttonless, longsleeve black, waffle-weave shirt. The shirt is looking better and better in that what matters underneath it has gotten steadily bigger and bigger. If I say so myself, I look good in it.

Anyway, as I was locking the van to head into the grocery a young couple was leaving the store. Probably in their mid-20s, their body language just screamed "married for just long enough that there are no real reasons anymore to try to impress you".

She was blonde, attractive, in good shape. He was pushing the cart and apparently somewhere else in that he was talking very animatedly and looking God knows where. In short he was taken for granted the pretty lady walking next to him.

I checked my cell phone and while repocketing it just noticed them out of the corner of my eye as we passed.

Now, I’m no male model, but I look a helluva lot better than I used to. I take a lil’ pride in my appearance now. But what I saw about made me drop the phone.

She SCOPED me. Scoped me while WALKING RIGHT NEXT TO HER GUY! For a LONG glance.

Now, I have to say this just does NOT happen to me. Heck, its NEVER happened to me.

Made my year, er, night….

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