Judge Ye Not.

I was at the grocery store picking a watermelon this afternoon with Alex and Sarah when we noticed a lady watching us. She was obviously waiting until I was finished so she could pick her own watermelon. I began thumping from one melon to another, and when I heard one I liked, I picked it up and put it to my ear. After giving it a good thump, I decided I liked what I heard and placed it in the basket with Sarah. Throughout this approximately 15 second process, I noticed the expression on the woman's face go from quizzical to condescending. If I could read her thoughts, they would have said something like, "yeah, right. Like you have any idea what you're doing." Or "yeah, right. Like knocking on a few melons is going to get you a good one." She literally rolled her eyes at me as I left. I thought to myself, "Go ahead and laugh lady. I'll be laughing the entire time it takes me to eat this delicious, perfectly ripe and juicy watermelon, while you go on guessing which ones are good or not for the rest of your life! I know exactly what I'm doing here." You see, after I left, I noticed her look around the box without touching anything, grab one out and put it in her cart. There's no way she could tell just by looking whether the melon was ready or not. Well, here's to you watermelon lady! Hope yours is just as scrumptious! Now the only thing that would have made my watermelon even better is the $0.19/lb I would have spent on it if I had gone to Wangsgard's instead of the $0.33/lb I spent at Smith's!