You don’t know the half of it.

preceding the icing on the cake

                                       he didnt

he was just trying to get out of the grocery store

                                                  stepped back  let a woman who suddenlyappeared left on a diagonal that cut off his exit

stepped back

she stopped

             Oh, excuse me, you should go first. he would have had to leap her cart  not even in his youth

No  Please   Come ahead

That’s awfully kind of you. as a secondthird and a fourth cart varied bodies aimlesschildren obliviousmen what would be thankfulwomen scrambledup on her heels

No please oneanall  come ahead he rocked back on his heels he wasnt going anywhere

a fifth cart a Mexican couple nodding to him as they waited

the third crawled past

who knew a bottleneck could happen on a doublewide automatic door

                                                                            it remained yawning

    as the Mexican couple came abreast came a fetchinredhead her breasts ahead of her  as if she were affixed to the bow of a ship figurehead an understatement was suddenlyup behind them

she was quick on the grin

beat him

           Aren’t you a peach.

Possible

she giggledsighed

                       You don’t know the half of it.

breezing by himhe tossed a gander at her ass learned the other half   she was righton

                                                                                            muttered Ohbrother

given the train of carts Wha a caboose

louder than he thought he had

                                  she braked just beyond the entry  turned sidewise  looked him over

Thank you. 

No  Thank you

neither balked or were embarrassed                                             

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