Reflection

I was at Crossgates Mall doing a little shopping.  I was coming out of the store
Cohoes when this man yelled out, “Excuse me Miss.”  This man was the person in the mall who goes around checking I.D.’s at the mall after four p.m.  I thought to myself, “Are you serious, is the man really coming over to I.D. me?”  Instead, he asked me where my smile went.  I immediately smiled and told him it had been a long day.  Then he went on to tell me this really weird and awkward story.  He told me about how if it wasn’t for me he wouldn’t be here right now.  He told me that it takes two people to make a baby, but that I was the only one who could carry one.  He told me to think about that for a minute, I did, and told him he was right.  He told me to keep that in mind, have a good day, and god bless.  The whole time he was talking to me I was thinking, oh my gosh, what is this guy talking about, why is he talking to me?  Did this whole conversation spring from the fact that I walked out of a store and wasn’t smiling?  When the man was done talking I walked away thinking to myself, how did that just happen?  That was the weirdest conversation I think I have ever had with a stranger in my entire life.  Who goes up to a total stranger and starts talking about how lucky they are to be here because females are the only ones who can give birth to children?  Random.