muley

Today (12/08/2008), I was at the grocery store to get some Coca Cola and pie to take to my buddy Antone's house for dinner. I go to the self-checkout area, and there is no line, so I wait for a register to open.

It doesn't seem like it will, so I go to the area next to this one and am going to wait for a register there, but these two young ladies walked up at the same time a register did open and I motioned for them to go ahead and went back to the original area I was in to begin with to wait.

As I wait, this big fat hippie guy comes walking past me and goes right up to one of the registers.

"Excuse me, sir," I say politely, "I am waiting for a register."

"What line are you in?" He snaps?

"There is no line, I'm it."

"Well, ya gotta pick one!" he shruges and goes turns back to the register.

Now, the guy isn't only rude to me, he's rude to the person using that register because she still hasn't completed her transaction. I wanted to get more upset, but didn't because the regsiter behind him came open, so I walked over to it and put my stuff on it and began to check out.

The regsiter the hippie guy jumped onto is now having a problem after the woman finishes her order, and I'm finishing mine. He moves to the register down from the one he was on and finally begins checking out as I walk past, wave my receipt at him and sarcastically smile, and leave.

Now, if he was in a hurry and had asked, "I'm in a real rush, can I go ahead of you?" I would have let him. But, no, he just jumps line.

I think that he got what he deserved for jumping line and being rude to myself and the one woman: He had to wait for her to finish, then the register broke down, had to move everything back into his basket and to the next register, and was still checking out while I was completed.

The moral is to be nice and wait. It's not that hard to be nice to other people because, in some way or another, it comes back.