checkout
just woke up angry.
I was in a checkout situation at some computer store, buying video game systems and a new graphics card. I was cleaning the packaging meticulously with a tiny sponge, and talking to the cashier about strange packaging of old. I thought i was making friends.
the next person in line started going through my graphics card box. like opening and unpacking it. i kept asking them what they thought they were doing, but i was focused on finsihing the cleaning of the box i was holding, and the story i was telling about old nintendo packaging, and how i was longtime nintendo fan.
finall i put down what i was doing and got in their face about messing with my graphics card. it was an ugly muscled woman, and her shadowy man friend (i never saw his face). she laughed and said they just bought this. like it was a mistake but we should laugh it off.
the cashier agreed. he had just sold it to them.
but i just bought it. but she repurchased it. And since she'd purchased it most recently, it was hers.
So i found myself yelling at everyone and trying to explain that i wasn't selling it. it wasn't the store's to sell since i had just bought it. of course there were no more on the shelf. they didn't see why i was being such a jerk. since i was just buying it for work, why didn't i take my work credit card elsewhere and get another one. what did i care? i couldn't explain that my boss wouldn't stand for that.
and i found myself trying to keep them from walking away, although the line for this sole register was already very long. I ended up calling the cops instead of my boss, and yelling about being defrauded. and how there would soon be a violent crime if they didn't show up preemtively.
and i woke up at this point, all angry as hell. and dehydrated. maybe 8 hours of sleep.
weird.