[EN] SUPERMARKET TALKING

- “Hello, hello ¿are you lost, kids?, I love children!” - I heard this words when I was shopping in the fresh product department of the supermarket. When I saw the person who was speaking, a dirty, bad-dressed, teethless and ruffled hair old lady, I couldn’t avoid thinking in the witch of Hansel and Gretel* tale. I grabbed the shopping trolley in which my twins were sitting. - “I love children when they are so young!“.
My kids gazed at her open-mouthed.
- “Say bye-bye, kids” - I said. This trick always work: they raise their hands and wave them good bye, so we can go, leaving the person we are talking with with a happy smile in the mouth. But this time, they were still motionless and gazing at the old lady.
- “I do love children!. And the love me to also, don’t you see so?” - I nod my head in agreement with a false smile and go, pushing the trolley.

Three minutes later, she is back to us, bringing two chocolate easter rabbits for the children. “Take them, I bought them just for you“. The kids, surprised, take the rabbits, now they are smiling. “I do love children!” - repeats again the lady, and starts telling me what had happened with a huge chocolate rabbit she bought for her grandson, “it was big, more than 20 dollars“, which collapsed totally because of the hot, even when it spent several days in the fridge “you have to be careful with chocolate” says, and then she tells me the recipe of something I couldn’t understand but its made with boiled potatoes and something that was on the shelve at our left. After, she recommends me to buy meat for the dogs in this supermarket, because it costs only 3 dollars.

Meanwhile, Ruben had eaten the half of his chocolate rabbit, and Rosa was doing the same, what caused them such a sugar overdose, strength and euphoria that they were able to mess up all the house in less than two minutes, and delayed for 4 hours their everyday afternoon nap.

*Po polsku “Jaś i Małgosia”