I guess this wasn't all that random, considering how bad we looked, but last spring, after my husband and I had been working in the yard one hot afternoon, we decided to run to the store for some drinks and a few things for supper. I had on shorts, muddy tennis shoes, and a ratty t-shirt with a couple of holes in it. He had on shorts and sneakers and a t-shirt.

We got up to the checkout line and the cashier looked at us and asked, "Is this a Lone Star card purchase?" The Lone Star card is Texas' food stamp debit-card program. We got so tickled at that because we realized we really should have changed clothes before we went shopping.