I was in a checkout line at a 99¢ Only store today. A woman got into line behind me, picked up a package of condoms from the “impulse buy” rack, and said, directly to me:
Woman: This is a good starter kit.
Joshua, internally: [Working ... working ... working ... nope, have no idea what that means]
Joshua, so close to uttering: Yeah, well, they’d be too small anyway.
Joshua, out loud: Probably not something for which you want to go bargain hunting. That would be an expensive failure.
Woman: Yeah. Probably too many holes.
Joshua, internally: [OK, that was really weird]
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Um, yeah . . . weird. What prompts a person to start a conversation like that? “Starter kit”? What?!?!?!?!
Maybe she thought it was a starter kit for making balloon animals? Those things take a lot of practice.