I was in Wal-Mart about a month ago. A man caught my eye. He was an older white man, with a white beard, white hair, and dark eyebrows. (The fact that he was white made him stick out a little, because in this town and especially this walmart, whites are a minority. That wasn’t racist, just fact.) He was lifting cases of canned food and putting them in his cart. This guy had a lot of cans. I didn’t see his face very clearly, but he kind of reminded me of Sean Connery.
When I got to the check out line, he was in front of me. I saw his face, and WOW, this guy really looked like Sean Connery. Wait… Was this Sean Connery?! In my walmart?! In my checkout lane?! I kept looking around, trying to figure out if other people were freaking out, too. But no one seemed to be looking past their own carts and the check out lady looked too depressed to be begging for autographs. Mr. Connery must have noticed that I was staring (I really couldn’t help it…), and he decided to explain all of his canned food, “I’m going on a camping trip!” I flipped out – he had a funny Scottish accent! Holy cow, surely it couldn’t be? Time to figure things out. As he handed his license to the cashier, I leaned forward to see it. Texas. I’m doubting a rich actor would take up residence in this area of Texas. But what if he was just passing through? What if he’s one of those actors who wants normalcy? He accidentally tried to take my cart instead of his with all the cans. He apologized, and since I was still staring, he motioned to all of his canned food, “This isn’t all for me!” I snapped out of it and said, “Uh huh…Sure it’s not!” Then told him to have fun camping. And he was gone. Like that.
No one else noticed or cared, but I’m telling you – this guy was spitting image. So now I think I must’ve come across some crazy impersonator. I called Kevin as soon as I left the store!
What’s your craziest Walmart experience?
lovewillbringustogether said,
April 15, 2009 at 6:36 am
i’m not saying it wasn’t Sean – stranger things have surely happened – even in Walmart Stores
but this might hold a clue, perhaps?: http://www.lookalike.com/lookalikes/sean-connery2.htm
Note the contact address.
We in the West of Australia must surely be one of the few places in the civilised world that does not yet have a Walmart!
We do have K-Mart and Target tho’ – do they count?
I have a poor ability to recall such situations in general and am sure that most of my whackiest experiences in such stores involve parents and kids and their interaction in the toy sections or chocolate/candy aisles.
About the whackiest personal experience i can recall at the moment was walking through the 8 foot high aisles in one store casually scanning for a present for someone special and accidentally turning into one of them only to pull up short as the visual image of an entire aisle dedicated to Barbie and the intolerable amount of Vivid Pink almost made me fall backwards. I quickly retreated back out of that aisle rubbing my poor, sore eyes.
No man should be made to witness that much shocking pink without some kind of warning!
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Joy Renée said,
April 22, 2009 at 4:13 pm
dude….how do you find this stuff?
mirandabean said,
April 17, 2009 at 2:07 am
that’s funny jess! you should have asked him who he was.. if it wasn’t sean connery, im sure the guy would have been flattered anyway!
espressoeyes said,
April 19, 2009 at 2:04 am
How funny! I would have been way too forward and asked…
onesetofjoneses said,
April 19, 2009 at 5:42 pm
In xanga you can do “@soandso” and comment on other people’s comments. Can you do that here? How?
@Lovewillbringustogether – I looked at that link, and I think that must have been him, because he lives in Coppell, which isn’t terribly far from here. And he was on a camping trip. So maybe?
Australia is so intriguing. My husband and I have wanted to live there for a long time. Our only fear- those spiders you have. Are they really a prominent threat? Or is assuming they’ll bite you about the same as assuming you’ll get kidnapped by cowboy-bandits if you come to Texas?
Joy Renée said,
April 22, 2009 at 4:10 pm
yup. just click the reply button.
lovewillbringustogether said,
April 20, 2009 at 9:32 am
Depending upon the ‘theme’ you choose for your blog you either may reply to a specific comment on your post ( click on the ‘reply’ at the end of each comment in your blogpost window on a pc) or can only make a ‘general’ comment such as the one you did above this. Your theme sems to suport both and you don’t need to typae a specific @name to comment to them – or did you mean a private comment?
Lol @ spiders.
Like anywhere you need to do your research before deciding where you want to live for a time.
i live on the West Coast and we don’t have the Funnel Web spiders i suspect you are referring to anywhere within a thousand miles from us.
WE do however have something called a ‘redback’ which is closely related to your ‘Black Widow’ spider that some care is required as the large females that prefer dry dark places to build nests in can give an adult a nasty bite if annoyed and it has been known to kill children.
The chances of you getting killed in a car crash though are something like a thousand times or more greater than being killed or bitten by any spider in Aus.
If you can handle the drivers the spiders won’t be a worry – mostly!
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Joy Renée said,
April 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm
all i wanna do in this life (okay, that’s me being dramatic…) is to sing at the sydney opera house.
just sayin…
onesetofjoneses said,
April 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm
You mean that’s what the “reply” thing is for? Missed that somehow…
Okay, so it’s for sure. One day, we’re moving to Australia! The way things are going here…it might be sooner than later. Joy Renee, come with me! Fulfill your life’s purpose! A few scary spiders can’t be worse than a venomous president. As for the driving, Kevin learned to drive in Houston, and we live in Dallas. I feel mostly prepared, having developed a stomach lining of iron.
It just seems like Australians have all the fun.
Joy Renée said,
April 23, 2009 at 4:24 pm
“fancy no-pants” hehe.
lovewillbringustogether said,
April 27, 2009 at 6:37 am
You would feel ‘right at home’ here i am quite sure.
I have lived here almost 40 years now and in that time i have seen a ‘few’ Redbacks, but never been close to being bitten by one – I watched in Horror as a friend of mine found one and said how ‘pretty’ she looked – a large black poisonous female with a bright red figure of 8 shape on her abdomen – and he then let her walk over his hands!
(He lived – no bite!)
I have never personally seen a Great White, except in the movies and on our local news when there was a rare ‘alert’, and have only ever seen one live deadly snake – while driving along a highway close to the beach – it was cutting across a side road between the dunes.
I have however had a LOT of fun over those 4 decades and can not see that changing much in future
I’ve never had the opportunity to see Sandra Bullock though – pants or no pants!
I might just have to visit, maybe?
But only at a time when Paris Hilton is in some other country – that’s too much for me to want to risk seeing ‘face-to-face’
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Joy Renée said,
April 22, 2009 at 4:09 pm
so funy, jess!
ya know…sandra bullock has a home in austin.
onesetofjoneses said,
April 23, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I know. I used to live there. On Miss Congeniality (the first one), when she gets her make-over in that hangar? That was my dad’s hangar. Couldn’t come in to work that day.
Sandra has a rep for being stuck up. Rumor has it, she also is a nudist. When I lived there, our youth leader’s dad was a contractor on all those fancy pants homes. Or…fancy no-pants homes.
Joy Renée said,
April 28, 2009 at 2:43 am
@love…hehehe. no paris hilton, eh? funny.