yesterday i was in the checkout line at the [name of grocery store redacted] and in front of me there were these two dudes, about my age, one taller and broader with a messy ponytail and head-to-toe Carhartt, and his slighter, slicker, short-haired friend (brother? I mean basically) wearing khakis and black pullover (and the cute little girl in the shopping cart coulda been either of theirs; still works) and they were just out grocery shopping together and i was just 🤭🥰😄 bc in my peripheral/through furtive glances the situation read very “just dudes being bros on a thursday” (but come to think of it, maybe they were a married couple (which, c’mon, they basically are 😉)), but then one of them (idk which, i was too busy trying too hard not to stare) was so courteous as to retrieve that little plastic divider strip (which was up by the cashier, out of my reach) and place it on the conveyor belt behind their stuff so i could start putting my stuff down, and he just looks my way and goes: “here ya go” and i was just 😮😳😶 and i’ve been giggling/cringing about it ever since. And would you believe I am thirty-six.