Tao in the Supermarket

Went to the local supermarket here in Hawaii for a Thai watermelon to put into my smoothies.

I picked up a watermelon and was testing it for readiness when another started to roll down from the pile where they were precariously perched on one another.

As I went to grab it, a couple more watermelons start rolling and fall onto the floor, one managing to make its way, unbeknownst to me to the metal baseboard of one of the produce stalls across the aisle.

All of a sudden I hear a bang and then this crash!

Something falling onto the floor and I turn around fast and I see the metal baseboard fallen over to the floor, with a Thai watermelon right beside it, and everyone in the vicinity of produce, including several grocery workers looking at it and then back at me and then back at the scene.

I immediately get the story and without thinking or missing a beat, yell out,

“She shoots, she scores!”

As a follow-up I must say nobody else there appeared amused. Not noticeably anyway but this is the land of lots of Japanese. The inscrutable. I think they were shocked actually! It wasn’t until later after checking out that I went back in and one of the produce clerks came over and said how funny it had been!

Thanks, Tao!