Innuendo

    When I got to the stand,  the farmer and I greeted each other as people do in small shops, when a bussiness owner knows each customer. I was already inspecting the produce that he had displayed on the table, when I noticed he was fixing me and trying to say something:

    "You have... you have..."

    I moved my ayes from produce to him, and waited, having the impression that he was going to tell me he'd finally figured out why my credit card was taking so long to go through his device. But his comment took me by surprise, even though he said it in such a casual manner as if he was talking about his radishes, or tomatoes, or onions...

    "...you put something on your skin...some oil or something...that when you come here, my whole stand gets filled with certain smell..."

    "...I think it's lavender..." he continued after some time, in an effort to guess.

    I did not have words right away, but I could not stop thinking at my friend who had bugged me for months with the miraculous effects of some kind of oils, and so forth, that eventually I gave in and tried...

    "I use roses oil," I replied in the same casual manner.

    "Oh...but you know, it's the same smell every time you come...the smell is all over my stand..."

    Realizing suddenly that he may have been right with his guess, I added:

    "Oh, yeah...I use lavender soap too..."

    So, I finished shopping and left, but after that occasion I saw him appearing from nowhere right at the  food stand where I found myself again,  and other person was in charge there...

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