Grin… I had another of my asperger-moments today. Silly thing is… I have to go prepared when shopping, because if not, I come home buying nothing. Not a real problem, you might think, and generally you would be right. That is, untill things go completely different as expected. I went to the local ‘Kruidvat’ for shampoo… I looked and found it quite speedy, irrespective of the amount of choice, and went to the counter to pay. This comprises of walking past some aisles with all kinds of products screaming for ones attention. Suddenly my telephone followed suit in ‘screaming’… 
I hardly ever answer my phone in public, unless comfortably sitting somewhere and it will always take me out of my comfort zone. Reaching the cashier a little later, to avoid the buzzing when doing my payment, I tried to regain composure.

The lady helping me said something… I didn’t understand her, because it wasn’t within expected parameters. “You know you are entitled to 500 grams of candy? (schepsnoep)” At first I didn’t have the foggiest of what she was saying. I tried to run it by in my head, listening to the available echo as fast as possible, while I shook my head to win time. I still didn’t understand, when she was in the process of repeating herself, pointing in a particular direction. Which made me look… 

Suddenly there was this line of people standing behind me for their turn. At that point I decided not to be interested in whatever she was suggesting, and I said so. Probably at the same time, it finally dawned on me… 500 grams of free candy! Considering the word ‘schepsnoep’ as completely idiotic anyway, I would never have guessed. As a child I would have lamented my decision. Now I could only laugh about it and consider myself lucky I was alone this time. This kind of thing also happens when with friends or family and I’d have a hard time explaining myself.