Friday, August 20, 2010

Ohhhh Mr. Sylvester!


So...I'm a cashier at Tops. I know, it's so glamourous it's hard to handle, but what can you do. Those Sabres tickets aren't going to buy themselves...I tried.

Anywho, night shifts mean smaller orders but dumber people. We had issues tonight because I was the only cashier on register, and a lot of stuff needed to get so I was back and forth off register, usually only there when people moan and groan because the self scan is sooooo awful.

Moving on.

A guy came into my line just as I was trying to put my close sign up, and I even put the sign around the groceries he had on the belt. He made a comment about it being rude, but I think it was a joke because I said I was just trying to get away but I could still take him.

As I kept watching him and listening to his voice, I kept thinking I know who this guy is, but it wasn't clicking. Then, something in my head told me to search for dimples, and I did. The mystery man wasn't smiling (no one in Tops ever does). Instead of keeping everybody waiting, I just blurted it out:

" Are you Kevin Sylvester?"

Not to be mistaken with past tough questions such as " are you Jason Spezza?" and " are you Rick Jeanerette?"...those these seem to happen every two years.

There was a pause. Looking back on it, I don't think it was that long, but long enough for in my head to go ' ahhhh, he's not.'

But, obviously if he wasn't, there'd be no blog post.

He said ' yes' the way I said ' yes' when my dad asked me if the tattoo on my ankle was real...like you were sorry the answer was indeed ' yes.' Maybe he's like the Patrick Lalime of broadcasting- adorable, but isn't sure if anyone really likes him. Then there's Tamara, secretly in love with him.

I told him, while laughing, that I didn't recognize him. That was actually true. The man was in shorts, a t-shirt, and a baseball cap. What do we usually see Kevin in? Suit and tie...he's usually talking to the guys IN the baseball caps.

After a brief chit chat, I told him that I was one of the two girls that approached him at the end of the season with the Patrick Lalime bobblehead to get a picture.

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And he looked at me as though there were multiple occasions. Maybe, and that is a big maybe, I'm not the only owner of said bobblehead in Buffalo, but I am the ONLY ONE who went up to Kevin (with multiple other adventures) for a picture.

He eventually did remember, most people can recall events with the terms ' Patrick Lalime scrapbook.' He was then concerned with whether or not the scrapbook actually made it to Mr. Lalime. I had to think for a minute before responding ' yes...during the playoffs!'

We both had to remember there was something called the playoffs recently in Buffalo.

Then there was something about being able to see Rob Ray's head from a mile away (that was my response to Kevin saying he gets asked if he's himself a lot, I think it fit at the time) and a brief statement of the places the bobblehead went (I stopped when he looked concerned).

Regardless, I had a smile on my face for the rest of the night.

Oh, and he had a bonus card.


Thank you for shopping at Tops.



3 comments:

  1. Kevin would have a Bonuscard.

    I love 'thinking as if there were multiple occasions'. Then again, I wonder if anything weirder has happened to Kevin while working with the Sabres...I can only imagine.

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  2. that's what I asked, and then he said ' Festivus'

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  3. it also included:

    " We brought the bobblehead to the park named after him when we were there in Montreal for a game. That was a bad idea"

    " Well, it depends"

    " We were there in April"

    " Yeahhhh"

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