Here’s how it went down.
Fabio and I were grocery shopping today. We were doing the self check-out, where Fabio was scanning all of the things we were buying. He likes doing this, and likes to think that he is more efficient than those who are trained for this job.
A little girl came up to him, while he was scanning items, and said,
“Excuse me? I’ve lost my sister and my dad.”
Fabio, still scanning the produce, didn’t even look up and replied,
“Yah. Okay, umm, just one second. Let me finish with this”.
WHAT?! Is this the any-day-now-to-be-daddy that I married 10 months ago?
Just a second? Let me finish ever-so-efficiently scanning my items while you are lost in the grocery store? Come on. Really?!
I, mother-to-be-any-day-now, side-stepped my husband and started talking with the little girl. As I was walking her to the customer assistance stand, she heard her sister calling her and turned around. The little girl who was lost asked her sister,
“Where’s dad?”.
Momentarily, neither girl knew where their father was. I was bringing them both over to customer assistance, when their dad called to them from 50 yards away.
They ran to him, and that was that.
As I asked Fabio what he was thinking, telling the little girl that he just wanted to finish checking out his items before dealing with her situation, he said,
“Come on. It was clear that it wasn’t urgent. She wasn’t crying. Why did she ask me, anyways?”.
Moral of the story: If you have something you want Fabio to deal with on the spot, you better start crying.
Nice story. But totally made up. Like the allegation against DSK.
Now imagine THIS scenario: Fabio is doing the scanning of the items. The phone rings. He answers and on the other end THE MAN says “Fabio, I am coming right now at the airport in Chicago. I was at the yearly Elvis look-alike contest. Can you come and pick me up at the airport? This way we can talk in the car about thighs and consciousness”
btw I agree that DSK stuff is all made up.