Chivalry is… omigod.  Did he really just do that?

I was in line at Ikea yesterday to buy a yogurt cone.  Look, you thought I could go to Ikea while pregnant and NOT buy one?  I was next  to be served when I dropped my wallet (pregnancy makes you clumsy. and a little ditzy. all the blood in the belly. none left for the brain.) and a couple pieces of paper and some cards fell out.

I bent down to pick them up (not an easy task when 36 weeks pregnant) and you KNOW WHAT THE DUDE DUD BEHIND ME DID?  He stepped forward in line as if HE was now going to be the next person to be served.  
He had the audacity to get all opportunistic (nicest word I can come up with) about my wallet drop and hoped he could be served next!  He was just hoping I’d stay down on the floor picking up my wallet long enough for him to be served before me.  Can you believe this guy?  A woman from the line behind us came up and asked if I wanted some help.  “In your condition I thought I should ask”, she said.  We giggled.  I guess I look my 36 weeks.

Can you believe that guy?  I should have pretended like some of my things dropped near his feet and when I stood up, accidently elbow him in the balls!  But I didn’t think of that until just now while writing this.  D’oh!

Thankfully today I was at Target making a return and encountered a very thoughtful dude.  I was returning a fairly heavy box so I left it on the ground at my feet as I waited in line.  When it was my turn, some guy in the line behind me quickly walked up, picked up my box and said “I’ll get that for you.”  And he carried it up to the counter for me.  Isn’t that sweet?

The guy at Ikea would have seen me reach down for my box, knocked me over and then kicked my box on his way to the counter.