i talk to strangers

yesterday, i gave my phone number to a nice-seeming young man at (this) cvs:

my response to his barrage of texts and calls (which i felt so bad about sending that i used an emoticon):

his response to my response to his barrage of texts and calls:

all this because i couldn't find where they kept the toothpicks, and you simply can't make a toothpick ferris wheel with a bottle of elmer's glue and no toothpicks.