Oh, Nicolle from the Bay Shore NY CVS, you are quite the flatterer.  I want to buy my Newports from you every day.

You made this 42-year-old laugh like a schoolboy — so much so that you silenced the pedant in me who wanted to ask why “Nicolle” is spelled with two “L”s on your nametag.  (The guys I am meeting up with out here tell me to get over it, but I won’t.)

Is “Nicolle” a mistake?  Or a gag, maybe?  When I worked at a video store and lost my nametag that time, the other guys handed me one with “George” on it, and I wore it because you could actually get in trouble for not wearing a nametag.  Then they spent all night laughing their asses off whenever they laid eyes on me.  There apparently was some excellent joke that had been made at my expense.  “Curious George?”  “George Kaplan” from “North By Northwest?”  George Bush?

Retrospect now suggests “Back To The Future’s” “George McFly.”  A LITTLE ON THE NOSE, DON’T YOU THINK?

[It would be so hilarious if  the subject of this post actually reads this.  I’m going to tag her name, store and location.  Because this is what I do with my time.)

Maybe “George Kaplan” from “North By Northwest” could actually be cool … I don’t know.  Or … maybe not.  Were the other guys suggesting that I …  didn’t exist?  Because that’s pretty abstract.  Whatever.