Standing in the Line

Grocery Shopping and standing in line at most department stores annoy me. I love shopping. I just hate being in line. Now before you scold me about waiting my turn, it's not about that. It's the people in the line in front of me. For instance;

Those lines for 12 items or less. Count them before you get in the line please. 2 one gallon jugs of milk count as TWO. Three boxes of cereal count as THREE. 3 packages of Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage count as THREE, 2 heads of lettuce count as TWO, do you see where I'm going with this?
Then those little old ladies that are in the line in front of you that place their items on the belt, then you began placing your item behind them. They frantically try and find that little plastic bar to put between the items that are hers, and yours. God forbid if the sales clerk accidentally rings up your box of tidy cat cat litter by mistake.

The there was the episode tonight. I stopped on the way home to pick up, yes you guessed it, cat litter. In front of me was an older gentleman, obviously in a hurry, with one item. In front of him a young yuppie female that apparently didn't read the 12 items or less sign. When she was rung up she didn't have enough money to pay her bill, she was .45 cents short. The man in front of me, wanting to get out of the store, and trying to be a gentleman asks;
"How short are you?" the girl who is rummaging through her purse turns and states.
"That's okay, I PAY MY OWN BILLS." Emphasis on the last five words, then asks the clerk to take off one of her bags of groceries, which of course takes forever because the clerk is not sure how to do that.

Why couldn't she have just politely replied, no thanks. Why did she have to prove she was so much better. Nobody was insulting her, or trying to call her a loser with no money, this guy just wanted to get home with his bottle of Excederin. If she was such a good person, she would have brought enough money to PAY HER BILL, and she would not have went through the 12 items or less line with 32 items. I just stood back and watched as she finally left the store and the gentleman that was willing to offer some assistance just looked at her. The clerk rolled his eyes and gave her back her change. People....

So the moral of this little blog is when going to the store, make sure you have enough money to pay your bill, and don't ever try to do something nice for someone. It's not worth it. To the young girl who had to be rude to someone trying to be nice, just one word honey...It's called KARMA.