4/11/07- What The...?!?

A Festival of Frustration

You guys know about the people who push their shopping carts up and down the left side of the aisle at the grocery store. What the heck are they thinking? They're jamming up everything, making shopping into misery! WHY?

The only other explanation is that 2/3 of the people in my store are visiting from the UK or somewhere else where they drive on the left. I don't think so. I would bet that the British have 2/3 of their people walking on the right making a bunch of trouble for the normal ones.

I stood in line at the Post Office today waiting patiently while some goofball tried to exchange 39-cent stamps for 2-cent stamps, in anticipation of the rate hike on May 14. You might wonder why he didn't just wait for the 41 cent version, and exchange for those. No way!

Four of us stood in line for about 5 minutes while he did the math in his head, and asked for 60 2-cent stamps in exchange for 20 39-cent stamps, wasting $6.60 in the process! The postal worker told him that she could not give him any change for the difference due to some government rule. The man said, "OK, well give me 80 2-centers then." She did it, smiled and that was the end of the most ridiculous exchange I have seen in quite some time.

So, next I can expect to stand in line watching someone balance their checkbook before they will get their butt in gear and let the rest of us buy our plastic junk and go home.