Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 12:17 pm
I was trying to play it smart.
Had a few things to pick up, but I avoided Walmart, today.... it tends to get packed on the first of the month when the attractive and successful city peeps all get their checks.
So I hit Kroger instead. Another, different mistake. Wall to wall old people... old, slow people. I assume they are getting some check on the first, too, or something, for them to be packing into the grocery store like that. Even in the parking lot, rows jammed with unmoving cars, because an old man stopped directly in front of the doors, diagonally, to let out his old woman. Blocked car traffic in 3 directions. I am personally having a painful day, nerves all inflamed and it isn't quite EXCRUCIATING for me to walk today, but it can see that neighborhood from here.... and of course all the handicap spots are taken. Then it is an ordeal getting in the door as they all try to shuffle through the bottleneck of other old people. Then it is an ordeal getting a cart. Then it is an ordeal getting through the store.... old people just stopped anywhere to try to read a price tag, or rifling through the folder to see if they have a coupon for that. In pain I am still moving faster than these people. Then the old lady in front of me at the checkout line kept trying to wave me past her... in the narrow little checkout aisle... because she still had to pay for her groceries ($168 cash pulled out of one of those little bank withdrawal envelopes) and she was confused and thought I was trying to get by her, while I was just waiting my turn with my shit on the conveyor.
But then there was the guy with the 2 full sleeves of tattoos... and I thought "cool.... I respect it when they don't half-ass it..." and then I took a closer look and it was all swastikas and SS symbols.
Happy May Day! Get me the fuck out of here.
Edited By GORDON on 1367425120
Had a few things to pick up, but I avoided Walmart, today.... it tends to get packed on the first of the month when the attractive and successful city peeps all get their checks.
So I hit Kroger instead. Another, different mistake. Wall to wall old people... old, slow people. I assume they are getting some check on the first, too, or something, for them to be packing into the grocery store like that. Even in the parking lot, rows jammed with unmoving cars, because an old man stopped directly in front of the doors, diagonally, to let out his old woman. Blocked car traffic in 3 directions. I am personally having a painful day, nerves all inflamed and it isn't quite EXCRUCIATING for me to walk today, but it can see that neighborhood from here.... and of course all the handicap spots are taken. Then it is an ordeal getting in the door as they all try to shuffle through the bottleneck of other old people. Then it is an ordeal getting a cart. Then it is an ordeal getting through the store.... old people just stopped anywhere to try to read a price tag, or rifling through the folder to see if they have a coupon for that. In pain I am still moving faster than these people. Then the old lady in front of me at the checkout line kept trying to wave me past her... in the narrow little checkout aisle... because she still had to pay for her groceries ($168 cash pulled out of one of those little bank withdrawal envelopes) and she was confused and thought I was trying to get by her, while I was just waiting my turn with my shit on the conveyor.
But then there was the guy with the 2 full sleeves of tattoos... and I thought "cool.... I respect it when they don't half-ass it..." and then I took a closer look and it was all swastikas and SS symbols.
Happy May Day! Get me the fuck out of here.
Edited By GORDON on 1367425120