Donut man

The boys and I were running errands today and we had about 20 minutes before we had to go pick-up PJ from school. So what best to do with 20 minutes? Yup, get donuts.

We walked into this old fashioned donut shop, were the coffee is a quarter and the donuts are 45 cents. The boys decided on long johns with sprinkles and I decided on coffee.

Me: We’ll take two long johns with sprinkles, two waters and a small coffee, please.

Donut man: (looking at CT) Are you sure you don’t want a soda pop or some juice?

Me: He’s fine, he’ll have water.

CT’s eyes begin to dart between me and donut man.

Donut man: (still looking at CT) Are you sure? I’ll give you a Sprite for free. Go ahead, take one.

CT continues looking at him, then me, then him, shaking his head and not sure what to do, all the while trying to hide the fact that he can hardly contain himself at the thought of a FREE soda pop, but knowing inside that Mama would not allow this kind of renegade beverage drinking, especially with donuts.

Me: Thank you, but the water will do.

Donut man hands us our order and we sit down. I then asked CT why he decided not to take the Sprit. His response, “I didn’t want to have too much sugar.”

Score one for mom and imparting good nutritional information to her children.

Two minutes later…donut man walks by and drops a bag of donut holes on the table for the two poor boys whose mother wasn’t nice enough to buy them a drink.

And donut man wins…with a Hail Mary pass from the back of the counter in the last fleeting moments of the game.

Damn you donut man.

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