I laughed when my 4yo son told our cashier "I wanna marry you!" and she replied "I'd take you home in a heartbeat!" He's the sweetest and this woman, who's at least 70, has worked at the grocery store since we've been here (about 2 years). I pretended to push both my kids towards her and I said "Take them both! I'll go home and have a nap!"
And just prior to this, his "deli friend" (the woman who works at the deli counter), who had just started her own break, saw us and stopped to chat with the kids cuz she saw them yesterday with their dad (who's the cook, which I've mentioned before lol) and wanted to ask why we were back. So I learned 2 things at the store today: 1. my DH and our kids go to the grocery store a LOT and 2. my kids make an impression. Wait, I learned 3 things: our grocery store retains its workers, which I think is a good thing.
I also laughed when my 8yo called it "a catastrophe!" that we forgot the cream cheese, which was the whole reason we were at the grocery store in the first place. I laughed because hearing her vocab makes me so happy. Plus, we were still at the store (I realized it literally as I scanned my debit card), so we could still easily grab some and check out again--and the second time we checked out was when DS gave our cashier the marriage proposal.