Scene: Alice, aka me, goes into a GNC in search of fenugreek because there isn't a pharmacist in a fifty mile radius who a) carries it and b) knows what it is. (For the uninitiated to the world of breastfeeding, Fenugreek seed is widely used as a galactagogue - milk producing agent - by nursing mothers to increase inadequate breast milk supply.)
Big Burly Weightlifting Guy wearing skintight blue polo shirt who works at GNC sees me coming in, looks me up and down and points before I even have a chance to open my mouth. "It's over there."
Me: "What?"
BBWG: "What you're looking for."
Me: "Huh?"
BBWG: "You want fenugreek, right?"
Me: "Um... yeah."
BBWG points again to the same spot in the store, "It's over there."
Me: "Oh. Thanks! What tipped you off? The twenty pound car seat hanging by my side or the enormous bosom?"
BBWG: "You don't really want me to answer that, do you?"
Big Burly Weightlifting Guy wearing skintight blue polo shirt who works at GNC sees me coming in, looks me up and down and points before I even have a chance to open my mouth. "It's over there."
Me: "What?"
BBWG: "What you're looking for."
Me: "Huh?"
BBWG: "You want fenugreek, right?"
Me: "Um... yeah."
BBWG points again to the same spot in the store, "It's over there."
Me: "Oh. Thanks! What tipped you off? The twenty pound car seat hanging by my side or the enormous bosom?"
BBWG: "You don't really want me to answer that, do you?"
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April 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM
I think that is one of the funniest things I've ever read! I love that you took his picture.
April 3, 2008 at 11:47 AM
That's interesting! My brother brought me some Indian spices when he went to India last year, including some fenugreek seeds. I still haven't used them. Maybe I should hold on to them until the Baby's born...could come in handy! :-)
April 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM
@Beth: Oh this is not the guy. This is some random guy from a GNC ad I pulled off the internet. I guess I should have made that clear. My guy was much bigger and much burlier.
April 3, 2008 at 1:43 PM
A) HILARIOUS!
B) the guy needs to get either a promotion for being so in-tune, or fired for staring where he shouldn't have been.
April 3, 2008 at 3:36 PM
LOL. That's really funny. Bonus that they had it.
April 3, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Soooooooooo funny. Love it.
April 3, 2008 at 4:52 PM
I guess you didn't have bodybuilder written all over you?
Whole Foods & Wegmans also carry it btw if you are scared to go back.
April 3, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Too funny.
Perhaps what is obvious at that particular GNC is that lots of breastfeeding mommies shop there. As a result, you all have a look about you that screams "FENUGREEK!"
April 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM
I randomly stumbled on your blog... I just bought "blessed Thistle" to increase my milk supply. supposedly, it works better than fenugreek. And, my health foods guy told me that you can take both of them together if you need to. Good luck!