The Only One Laughing

Do you know that feeling you get when something is truly funny and you laugh, but nobody else gets it? Such was the feeling when I was out grocery shopping today. I got into the shortest line, which happened to also be the loudest. The woman in front of me had a cart full of groceries and a cart full of screaming kid. It was about 2-years old and screaming like a banshee.

The woman clamly told her daughter to quiet down. She reminded her daughter to refrain from screaming. She requested that her daughter quit screeching. Finally she said, "Miranda, you need to be quiet, this is a store".

Then I chimed in, "You have the right to remain silent".

Then all activity in the busy grocery store froze and you could hear nothing but silence and crickets. An uncomfortable void hung in the air for about five seconds before everyone exploded back to work again.

The mom gave me an evil glare. Hey, I wasn't the one that, one, has a screaming kid, and two, named it something punworthy. That kid will hear it for the rest of her life, might as well start now.

I thought it was fucking hilarious.