"Working out, eh?"

       I got a peculiar, shy look from the bag boy at the grocery store. 

       I had started by asking him to put in as few items in each bag as posssible, not wanting too much weight per bag due to my upcoming hernia surgery.

      After paying the clerk, etc., I noticed three lightweight things going into my last bag, and that's when I said,  "Working out, eh?"  He was a well-built young man, no doubt in his late teens or early twenties, and I realized after he responded to me sort of shyly and scatteredly that he probably did "work out" and thought I was commenting on THAT rather than what I was.

       Words perform wonders.  They answer to several calls.   Any one you want to hear, you can take.