National Donut Day

Because it's the last day of school, we made special stop on the way home by our neighborhood 7-11 today so the kids could enjoy a Slurpee. We celebrate big, don't cha' know?!

As the kids are filling their Slurpee cups, one of Allen's Finest walks in and proceeds to the drink counter. Upon seeing him, Ben...in awe of the uniform...says, "Hi!". The police officer says, "Well, how ya' doin'?" Ben continued to tell him how it was the last day of school so he was doing very well, thank you. The police officer said he was aware of it being the last day of school and how the police didn't care for it very much because it made their jobs a lot harder. He said they had already received 22 calls regarding juvenile disobedience JUST in our area. Good grief!

So we start walking to the cash register and Ben stops, calls out to the police officer who is in front of us heading to the counter and says (and I'm not kidding): "Aren't you gonna get a donut?"

Oh my word...did that really just happen?

The police officer literally stops in his tracks, the people in front of him turn and look with huge grins on their faces and he slowly turns to look at Ben - who he can now tell is serious. Ben wants to know why on earth a cop just passed by a yummy display of Krispy Kreams without grabbing one.

The officer says, "Do you think all police officers eat donuts?" with a smile on his face. "Or are you just asking me that because it's National Donut Day?" (seriously...come to find out, it is).

Ben replies with a grin, "They do on TV."

Trying to diffuse the situation (though the officer is clearly tickled, thankfully), I ask Ben if it really looks like this officer eats many donuts (he was fit and by no means overweight at all...again, thankfully).

I shouldn't have asked...

"It looks like he may have had some," says Ben, now trying to make the officer laugh.

Which he did. "That kid just made my day," he replied. I can't tell you how many times in my life someone has told me that exact thing about Ben. He just has a way of making people laugh.

When he got to the counter, the nice lady working said she wasn't going to charge him for his Big Gulp to which the officer said, "Thank you very much." then turned to Ben and said, "And it's diet, by the way!"

Thank you for letting there be approachable officers out there with a great sense of humor. Whew!

And, Happy National Donut Day to everyone!