How's your vacation?

Yesterday, as we had been shopping for a pair of picture frames at T.J. Maxx - yeah, we've got one of these in Park City! - and were lining up to check out, my wife and I were speaking French together and the lady behind us asked in a smart aleck way “how's your vacation?” thinking we were bona fide French tourists.

I answered “just fine, thanks” and left it there. I could have said that I had been on vacation (retirement) for more than six year but that kind of answer would have literally opened up a can of worms and I didn't have the gumption to replay my whole life story inside a discount store.

I did just right and the morale of today's blog goes straight to the lady behind us: Never assume anything!