something weird just happened at the safeway

i had dinner with erich and vera and then, on my way back from boulder, i stopped at the en route safeway to pick up a few supplies.

on the way out of the store, i dodged some kids that worked there and were talking to their friends during a break.

then, as i got into the batmobile (or, fumbled with carkeys), i was approached by a woman.

(this is where shit gets weird--and i'll kick this out in a weird format to match)

hot, 40-something granola-ey woman: is this your car?

me: indeed, it is.

h4sgw: what year is it?

me: it's an '83.

so i talked about old volvo wagons and shops and engines and crap for 45 minutes with a strange woman. what was not attractive about this woman was that she approached me in a parking lot. she had to be derranged.

she starts in on the sex appeal of these cars. this was truely a FUCKEED situation.

i decided that i wanted to go at this point and she wouldn't let me. she kept talking and talking, and standing behind the car, preventing my escape. i didn't want to run her over--this is the one time that i didn't get totally awkward when having to speak to a strange, attractive woman.

questions that i want the answers to:

• am i not scarey enough anymore to keep this from happening?
• what am i doing differently now?