Wrong groupie
Fri, November 2, 2007
Filed under: Humor
Ever since I’ve got a job (i.e. May), I kept wishing I could sleep in. Contrary to popular belief, chances to do so aren’t as rare as one might think. I even took a brief holiday (2 days right before the weekend), to finally manage to indulge in said longing.
Naturally (i.e. ironically) I slept even less. As such, it is no wonder that once I’m not busy with work, I can give any sleepwalker a run for his/her money. To solve said problem at work, I took up a ‘Coke diet’: meaning that I pretty much live on Coca Cola these days. Obviously, I cannot drink from the bottle while at work and canned Coke would be much too expensive in the long run. Solution: buy a sodding cup already! This wouldn’t normally be a problem, had my work place not been on the outskirts of the city. Most stores there are small food… barracks, for lack of a better term.
For once, luck was on my side, and I did find a cup: a garish plastic one with some red roses. Then again, when the alternatives are sheep shaped1, you tend to be less picky. So then, equipped with an even more garish red shopping basket, roughly seven times the size of the cup2, I drag my feet towards the cash registry. Being on lunch break, I had over 45 minutes to spare, with the company at 5 minutes feet-dragging distance. So a short napping opportunity cam right on time. Or rather, it would have come right on time.
All of a sudden, the elderly lady in front of me, starts to dramatically roll her eyes, randomly raise her arms, give me meaningful looks and alternately shaking her shopping basket and sighing as loudly as possible. Since I’m equally mean offline as I am online, all this amused me to no end. She did look completely ridiculous: her acting was completely off.
The customer at the front was being served by a deliberately obtuse cashier, trying to settle a difference of 0.2USD.
Annoyed beyond measure, the old eye-rolling lady, plunks her basket on the counter, getting everyone’s attention:
Lady: Could you PLEASE stop all this? We really can’t afford to wait anymore.
The cashier3 was left literally gaping at her. I felt a brief pang of sympathy for her, but since I my professional motto is “my client , my master”, I refrained. She WAS paying after all.
Cashier(stuttering): Well… I look… I… if I explained it to you then… it would…
Lady(pointing at me): This poor girl is waiting for a mere cup.
I promptly proceeded to frantically flail my arms, assuring the shop assistant that I wasn’t anything of the sort… much to the chagrin of the old lady.
Cashier(dramatically): There! And we will leave off 0.5USD.
Customer(equally dramatically): Oh no: I can’t have you end up with such a loss!
The old lady was ready to blow up, most unfortunately she didn’t. And I lost precious napping time: all for the sake of crappy drama! Unforgivable!
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1 yes, literally.
2 a regular tea cup.
3 a woman in her mid 40s, not a teenager.
Lol, some people really hate waiting in line. Especially if it’s for a few cents!
A sheep-shaped cup sounds kinda cool
Vera: In theory, maybe. I much prefer simple cups.
LOL! She tried to help, didn’t she? Nap time…ah the glory of childhood. I miss napping time. Unforgivable indeed, great entry.
Vera: possibly, but you don’t chastise 40-year-olds like you do teenagers.
Hey I got it before. Always old women. Rushing for time and wanting to get the extra few cents. Don’t get whats wrong with these women, bulling young little ladies like myself. Because they’re jealous.
I bet cashiers see those types of people every day.
that’s a what a job does to you… =[
you can never sleep in.. unelss it’s an afternoon job
Hey..wow. I never commented you. I know allll about Barbi and her nonsense.
She has been starting her drama with me non-stop, except for maybe a week. But, when she had your review posted on her site, I found your page (google is my best friend. lol) to see if she was giving you the same kind of harassment that I was receiving from her. And sure enough, she was.
So, Barbi is now posting comments as me on your blog, to start drama between others. Reason being, we kinda had a “confrontation” on a forum site, and she was playing the role as the victim. So I mentioned to her (in the forum), that I had seen your site, and I saw what she said to you. I felt like commenting that post when I saw it about her review, but I was trying to avoid more drama from her. So I didn’t post anything at all.
Truth be told, this is my first comment to you =]
If you have any doubts, my email address is provided if you wish to contact me.
Ahh heck, since I’m here now. GREAT review by the way. You hit the nail on the head with that one
Sorry about that. I can now see that the IPs are completely different. *sighs* Oh well, this means I’ll have to pay more attention to IP addresses from now on.
I e-mailed you a screenshot of the comments in question.
@Beth: Oh so, this is the first real ‘Beth’ comment?
I received 3 other comments, which I’ve left in moderation.
Oh I just reread and I must ask: sheep cups???
Interesting concept, I myself also prefer plain cups…
Vera: in theory yes, it’s interesting. However these particular cups were of the cheap and kitschy kind.