Best. Ever. (rah)
F / 35 yrs old.
member since: jul. 7, 2006
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posted
January 23, 2008 6:58 PM PST
all lost in the supermarket
it's my brother's birthday today, so on the way home from work i stopped at the supermarket to pick up some cake mix, and a carton of milk, and when i was queuing up to check out, there was a fracas going on in the express lane next to mine. some old man was totally freaking out because a woman (a HUGELY pregnant woman) who had been standing in line in front of him holding a carton of ice cream, had let her sister (and small nephew) into line with her (sister and nephew added no more than a bag of slivered almonds to the pregnant woman's total). Old Man wad NOT having this and starts yelling and calling them vicious names, swearing he's not going to let them cut in line in front of them, and then actually PICKED UP HIS CART AND SHOVED IT AT THE PREGNANT WOMAN.
meanwhile, the whole rest of the store has stepped forward to try to keep this old bugger from harming someome, and we're all looking around wondering where the fuck security is...
finally, a manager shows up and takes the old man and his two measely jars of Ragu somewhere where his temper won't hurt future generations, and the rest of us just kind of stand around making "Can you BELIEVE that guy??!?" faces at each other.
meanwhile, this was only distracting us from the fact that at the end of my own line -- the check-out end of the line -- is a woman who can't afford her groceries. she's tried every credit card, turned her wallet inside out, and thrice emptied all of her bags looking for loose cash. this was going on the ENTIRE TIME irate grandpa was causing trouble one aisle over, and CONTINUED to be an issue for easily 15 minutes afterwards, while the rest of us in line slowly watched our lives tick away. the cashier wouldn't just tell her to stand aside while she checked out those of us WHO HAD MONEY, and the manager who came over seemed to think that looking disdainfully on the scene was all that was required. finally, the poor schmuck who was standing in line behind the cashless wonder told her to take the two bottles of vitamins off her tab and she'd be able to pay for it, but it turns out she can't afford even a few things of yoplait and a tray of hamburgers. in the end, it took the entire line and the line next to us yelling at the woman to shame her into standing aside.
i hate people.
last updated January 23, 2008 6:57 PM PST
posted
January 29, 2008 2:35 PM PST
posted
January 24, 2008 10:45 AM PST
Its a sick sad world. I can't believe he'd be such a douche bag about adding one item to cart at check out. i used to be a movie theater manager and I would have customers go all ape over the smallest things like "there's a couple in row in front of me with food and it smells really stong, I can't enjoy the movie". I swear somedays i just wanted to say, "wtf?!?! do you realize there are people in africa starving, parents that beat children and a war going on and you're freaking out over a smell?"