Yes, this really happened.

So we were at Wal-mart today (don't all blog-worthy stories start that way?) when a particularly amusing dialogue took place that I knew I just had to share with you all.

After gathering all of the necessities for the week, we proceeded to the check-out lane. We informed the cashier that we wanted to put a few items on a gift card (we get $30/month in Wal-mart gift cards from my company's wellness program, FYI!), and pay for the rest on a debit card. And here is what happened from there:

Cashier scans the dog food container, a box of First Response ovulation predictor kits, and a box of tampons.

Me: Oh, and I have a coupon. (I then hand the woman a $1 off coupon for the tampons.)

Cashier, as she is scanning in the coupon: Congratulations!

Me, very confused as to why she congratulated me on purchasing a box of tampons, but assuming perhaps she was just congratulating me for getting $1 off my total: Oh, ha, yeah- thanks!

The cashier then proceeds to scan the rest of our groceries, all the while chatting about the approaching holidays and declaring her great love for egg nog, noting that last year she purchased a whole quart of it as soon as it hit the shelves and drank the whole thing in one sitting. Her affinity for egg nog seemed so intense that I actually felt guilty for offering up that I'm "not really a fan" of it, but I just wasn't really sure how else to respond. Thankfully she didn't seem to take offense.

After she finished scanning everything, she told me the total, and as I was pulling out my debit card:

Cashier: So far how along do you think you are?

Me: Excuse me? (then remembering the random 'congratulations!') Oh, I'm not pregnant- that was a box of tampons that I bought... I'm definitely not pregnant... but we're hoping to be soon!

Cashier: Oh. But you also bought a pregnancy test...

Me: Ohhhh- no, that was an ovulation predictor kit, not a pregnancy test... (Dear God, PLEASE do not make me explain to her what an ovulation predictor kit is for.)

Cashier: Oh, so you can get pregnant??

Me: (Relieved) Yep, that's the idea.

Cashier: Well have a great day!

A few thoughts on this exchange:

1. Isn't it slightly presumptuous to congratulate someone that is buying a pregnancy test? What if it's negative?

2. I would like to apologize to the person standing behind us in the check-out line (who most definitely was in earshot of the whole conversation) for taking the phrase "TMI" to a whole new level.

3. I realize that I am 27, but I was still slightly embarrassed to have to publicly declare that I was buying a box of tampons.

4. But apparently not that embarrassed, because I then felt the need to INFORM THE CASHIER AT WAL-MART THAT WE'RE "TRYING" TO GET PREGNANT. Apparently I have lost all of my shame.

5. That cashier is really lucky, because as emotionally unstable I have been lately, it would not have been out of the ordinary for me to start crying. But with the irony of the whole situation, I really just had to laugh. And then come home to blog about it, of course.