Last weekend as I was walking through the cosmetics section of a department store in Long Island, NY, this happened:

Store Clerk: Hi miss. Would you like to smell this men’s cologne and maybe buy it as a gift for your father?

Me: Sorry, he actually passed away. He’s dead.

SC: Oh, sorry!! What about your husband? Father-in-law?

Me: I have no husband or father-in-law.

SC: Boyfriend?

Me: No boyfriend either….

SC: Oh… (with an apologetic look on her face)

Conversation done. Full stop.

She shut down and I was laughing on the inside.

I love these types of awkward interactions. Ha!

At some point I will have a husband and father-in-law to give a Father’s Day gift to. But for now, I’m enjoying the single life. And enjoying these gaffes.

So, Happy Father’s Day to my future baby daddy.

Yeah, I said baby daddy…..

“The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.” — Proverbs 23:24