Scan Man

I took my boy to the grocery store today, and of course he started chit-chatting with one of the workers.

"What's in your hand?" he asked.

"A scanner," the lady replied.

"What does it do?"

"It reads bar codes and then makes a beep noise."

"Cool.  Can I try?"

The lady gave Bubba the scanner and showed him what to do.  At first he had a little trouble, but then he got the hang of it. Pretty soon he was making all kinds of beeping sounds.  "This is awesome!  When I grow up I'm going to be a scanner!"

The lady smiled.  "It's fun for about five minutes and then it gets kind of boring."

"No, it doesn't!  I'm going to scan everything in the store!"

He scanned a whole shelf of products.

The lady laughed.  "This is pretty good.  I think I'll just let him do my job and stand here and watch!"

Bubba grinned.  "I'm the Scan Man!"