{"id":6084,"date":"2025-11-06T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=6084"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:06:33","slug":"a-stranger-kept-tailing-him-then-he-learned-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=6084","title":{"rendered":"A Stranger Kept Tail\u00ading Him \u2014 Then He Learned Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man noticed an elderly lady following him around while shopping in a supermarket. She stopped when he stopped and kept staring at him. Eventually, at the checkout, she approached him and said, \u201cI hope I haven\u2019t made you feel ill at ease; it\u2019s just that you look so much like my late son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man replied, \u201cThat\u2019s okay.\u201d<br \/>\nShe then made an unusual request: \u201cI know it\u2019s silly, but if you\u2019d call out, \u2018Goodbye, Mom\u2019 as I leave the store, it would make me so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obligingly, as she left, the man called out, \u201cGoodbye Mom!\u201d She waved and smiled back.<br \/>\nFeeling pleased for brightening her day, the man proceeded to pay for his groceries. The clerk said, \u201cThat comes to $121.85.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprised, the man exclaimed, \u201cHow come so much! I only bought 5 items.\u201d<br \/>\nThe clerk replied, \u201cYeah, but your mother said you\u2019d be paying for her things too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man noticed an elderly lady following him around while shopping in a supermarket. She stopped when he stopped and kept staring at him. Eventually, at the checkout, she approached him and said, \u201cI hope I haven\u2019t made you feel ill at ease; it\u2019s just that you look so much like my late son.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}