I stammered and said thank you. I then blurted out that I was sorry, and I even offered to buy him new clothes. He said it was okay, and I thought that would be the end of the conversation. But he just stood there.
“Why didn’t you get the ones with the cartoon characters?” he asked.
“What?”
“Your band-aids. They have lots of designs there. I like the Ninja Turtles ones.”
“Oh. Thanks. I think I’m going to stick with these.”
He stood there and looked at me. The aisle was pretty narrow, so I couldn’t just walk around him. I told him I had to go, and then he said, “Aren’t you going to apologize?”
I was confused. Didn’t I just finish awkwardly apologizing?
“I’m really sorry that my pen accidentally hit you, but I really have to go.”
“That wasn’t an accident.”
“Well, it was an accident…
