40 lb. watermelon!

We went to the commissary today to get a few groceries for a youth school's-out party tonight. We started int he produce isle and the kids (older ones who went to the American school) immediately spotted a rather large watermelon. They figured that since we were having our whole ward youth program over to our house this would be the perfect melon. I relented and told them to haul it over to the hanging scales to see how much it would cost. The needle on the scale flew around so fast that we had a hard time counting just how many times it wrapped around. We tried lifting it up (that took two kids to accomplish) and slowly letting it down while the rest of us tried to count the revolutions that the needle made. No luck. I decided that at $.24/lb. it couldn't be that much. So we put it into the cart and did the rest of the shopping.

At the check-out we unloaded everything and put the watermelon on the conveyor last. The checker's eyes got big and as she was moving it onto her scale she said " now that's a big ol' watermelon". She tried a couple of times and then stated that it was too big for her scale. After calling 3 times for assistance, someone from produce came up and took our massive melon to the back of the store to the "big" scale. The lady returned a couple of minutes later and asked if I minded if they cut it in half because it was too big for the "big" scale. Everyone laughed and I told her sure, as long as it wouldn't leak all over my car on the way home.

When they came back they had put both halves into a large box and covered the melons with saran wrap and put a price tag/bar code on each half. The final weight was just under 40 lbs. all of the customers, checkers and baggers from two registers on either side of us were all asking how much it ended up weighing.