
Originally Posted by
kru-kut
I ran into one yesterday at a feed & grain store. I'm getting out of my old work truck and she pulls into the lot driving one of those powder blue Subaru wagon/SUV things that pretty much announce what the driver's all about (NIMBY Vanity Socialist, perpetuating the stereotype, probably living off a $10M trust fund). She's got a perfect page boy haircut, like she thinks she's still 21 and an 8, even though she's a Q-tip pushing sixty with the build of a junior high school linebacker.
By the time she walks into the store, I'm already walking the aisles, collecting what I'm going to buy.
By the time I'm done, she's already up front at the registers. I walk up there with my stuff and wait while the checkout guy asks for her name for the "rewards" program they have. It's actually pretty good and you can save a lot. She gives her name, but you can tell from her insolent, snarky tone she's pissed about something or other. (Probably about how crap her life is and she knows its trajectory is downhill except for the trust fund.) While the guy's looking up her name, she asks him how come they don't offer coupons any more.
I feel like asking her whether she came in here to buy supplies or complain, but I know better.
She completes the purchase, the guy says thank you, she says nothing, and she walks out of the place with a dark cloud over her head. I start wondering where she's going to stop off next, and who'll be the next poor bastard whose day she's going to pollute, probably with intent.
I pay the guy for my stuff, I look at the door while he's watching me, I shake my head, I look back at him, and we smile at each other.
Oh yeah, us guys, we know the story. Every word, apostrophe, comma, and period. Seen it played out too many times not to.