Lamb Chop Part Deux?

I thought I had seen everything. I mean teaching in the Bronx, living in NYC, living in Boston and now Atlanta, but oh no, no I had not seen everything until last night.

Last night I had to make a pit stop at the QT (it's a gas station), because as the commercial says, "I had to go right now". So I walk into the bathroom and I hear this mom talking to her kid, but she's talking in this real funny, high-pitched voice. I didn't think much of it, because I thought, well maybe that's how she really sounds, she was in a stall, so who knows. And she's saying things like, "flush that toilet, boy, now let's go wash our hands". Normal, right?

But, nooooo, she comes out of the stall with her kid and she has a RACOON PUPPET on her hand. And she's talking THROUGH the puppet, thus, the higher-pitched voice. Although my raccon would have been all manly and kick-ass like. But I digress.

We looked right at each other, I said, "hi", she said "hi" (via the puppet) and I went into the stall. When she was gone, I laughed to hard, I was choking. It gets better.

She was still in the QT with her kid, getting a Coke or something and she's STILL talking through the puppet, the kid is about 5 or 6 and he's encouraging her. I couldn't help but simultaneously think, "okay, weirdo" and "wow, you got alot of cajones for doing that in public." I wasn't really embarrassed for her, I was sort of envious, you know?

But funny? Oh my HELL it was funny and something I'll never forget.