...Would you like to be My Sacrifice?
Let's face it we all have really shitty days where everything can act as a trigger of annoyance. The other day I went to my mom's house to spend the evening. I got to the house before she came home from work, so I decided to be nice and clean up for her. When she arrived home she wanted to head up to the market.
Now, I originally come from a small town where the big events each year is the parade held on Labour Day and the annual tractor pull. Exciting, huh? Everyone in town knows when someone has died due to the marquee outside of the funeral home (no I am not joking). When all is said and done.... my home town is warped. The ol' saying: It's in the water does apply.
Anywho.... gandering into the one-street farming town with mom we arrive at the wonderful Wilco. This is the grocerey store at the North end of town (Costa's at the south).... both privately owned. Wait before we get to the market... the bank. Mom gets out of the car to grab some cash before our shopping experience. While using the ATM, a guy about 25 is waiting to use the machine also... but besides waiting at the end of the walk he decided to stand behind her as if it was a drinking fountain. Of course it being mother my eyes perked and glared a nasty look at the few-fries-short-of - a -happy-meal 25 year old. All I could think was:
I have had a really shitty day..... go ahead mess w/ her ... it will give me a vaild reason to hit someone.
.... at Wilco:
Now, I am a sucker for a good mullet joke and coming home is like a mating ground for them. Although I may think... I'd never say it... but DAMN it is hard sometimes. Walking into the buggy area there are two children with mullets(unattended) playing a game of crash the buggies together (You know it's all the rave). Finally the parents came out to round their kids... and would you believe the mother, father, and the 2 children all had the same haircut.
... the Deli...
Stopping at the Delicatessen to pick-up some fine, fresh, processed meat product (aka. lunchmeat), a lady placing an order in front of us was giving the clerk a hard-time to the point it was uncalled for....
I said a pound of the turkey breast.... does this look like a pound to you? (shoving it in the 17 year-olds face).
The young clerk weight out the meat to show the 45 year-old, dressed in Abercrombie, that what she ordered was actually a pound. This still did not please her..
How am I suppose to feed my family for a week w/ that amount?
Suggesting that she order more, the clerk, offered to re-cut another pound in thinner slices- the lady agreed and watched. After the another pound was cut this still didn't appease....
Just give me a pound shaved...
Cringing, the clerk began to slice, yet, another pound of meat. I just couldn't believe this lady, and she continued nagging the poor girl which she was cutting. Having little patience at this point.... I casually turned as said:
Oh, I love your daughter's outfit! Too bad it doesn't shave off a few pounds and 20 years on you.
The lady threw the meat into the buggy and stormed off. The clerk smiled. And I bought what the lady didn't.
....in the aisles...
In the colorful aisle of tasty breakfast cereal, mom was aiming to pick-up her usual box of Muslex. Seeing the red box filled w/ fruit and bran goodness, she reached and was instantly plowed over by a lady w/ 4 kids hanging off a buggy. The lady turns around as says:
You should have moved, can't you see I have my hands full?
My mother's jaw dropped at the fact she couldn't believe what was said. The lady grabbed 3 boxes of King Vitamin, and continued down the aisle.
.... in the car park....
After leaving the store our Wilco shopping experience was not quite over, yet. Walking to the car mom sees the lady from the cereal aisle. With her 4 children already loaded into the car, she was sorting bags from a fully packed buggy, into the boot. Our car happend to be parked 1 over from hers. Before approaching our car mom shoves the lady's buggy in the opposite direction while the she was in the process of loading. The lady quickly turned around saying:
What the hell did you do that for?!!
Mom smiles and says: Can't you see I have my hands full, you should have moved.
Human nature... gotta love it!