Pretzel story

It was a thursday evening and I left work with the thought of going to shop for a specific item in Afi Palace. I was on my way to see specific shops where there were the highest chances of finding what I wanted when I met with the specific push-cart with pretzels "Covrigul Plimbaret". Usually when I am in Afi I buy a cheese pretzel I like very much, not any other, this is my favorite and this specific kind I can only find here. If they do not have I simply doný buy anything, it's not the pretzels it's the cheese one I like so much. So here I am in front of the pretzel push-cart searching with my eyes for the cheese ones. A lady was also stopped and she was asking the sales lady about...cheese pretzels. I myself was not seeing them. To my disapointment I heard the sales lady saying she is out of cheese pretzels. The shopping lady sais she is going to try her luck at another push-cart. Just then I noticed that another push-cart was also stopped near by. So when the sales lady asked me what do I want I also replied that I too was gonna try my luck at the other push-cart. 10 seconds later and 3 meters further I was next to the other pretzel push-cart. Here a large family was ordering, the shopping lady was circling the area and was not seeing the cheese prezles and I had my eyes on the last two. The large family order finished with one cheese pretzel. There was only one cheese pretzel left! My mind was having an argument...one pretzel, two ladies...difficult decision. The shopping lady was still circling and still not seeing the cheese one when the sales lady asked me what do i want. This happened because I was closer and the other lady seemed undecided. She also seemed a bit lost in her thoughts and maybe tired. My better half won so I open my mouth and asked: Do you want the last cheese pretzel or should I take it? The shopping lady looked at me mystified and said: what? I repeated my question. She was surprized and asked me how did I guess. I said I heard her at the first push-cart. She seemed less suspicious now. She said I could take it since I was there before her - well this was not quite true. I said she could have it and I can take something else. She insisted I could take it, I said I am fine, she insisted again being nice, sad, unsure and surprized all in one. When I said that ia ma sure, she suggested that maybe we can split it in half. When I said I am really fine, she asked one more time if I am sure because she really does not want to ruine my evening and after some seconds she added more to herself that she actualy had a bad day. I said smiling that it's really ok and my day wasn't actually so bad. So she took the cheese one, asked me one more time if I don't want half of it, I smiled and ordered one with apricot jam.

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