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This morning, a work friend and I ran a couple of errands. I'm sick and needed some echinacea and we stopped at the local Borders to use some coupons. In this Borders there's no demarcated line, so people wait at one end and are called forward when the next cashier is free, so no one is standing behind you.
Anyway, my coupon wasn't working and the cashier substituted a different one, which was for less. At this point, a woman was standing just a couple of feet behind me, which was buggin'. I had been standing near my friend while she checked out, but it was obvious we were together by the way we were chatting. But this woman was close, and I'm not big on close.
Coupon wasn't working, we were trying to figure out why, it's taking a couple of minutes, literally, to figure it out. Meantime, Ms. In-Your-Bubble-Annoying decides to start the huffing. You know, that huff/sigh thing. I ignore her. About every fifteen seconds, huff/sigh. Whatever. I'm too old to care what much what other people think.
Finally, it turns out it was my fault, as the coupon was not good until tomorrow, so I take it back, decide not to get the CD, and buy my other item. Of course, Ms. IYBA has to toss in a couple more huffs while I'm paying and getting my change.
That was it. I turned, shoved my face forward into hers, gave her a HUGE smile, at which she smiled back, and then I said, "Happy I'm leaving now?" She immediately dropped her face and started pawing through the bag she was carrying.
But that was nothing, because when I got back to work, I found out that they were doing layoffs and a friend of mine was let go. What a day.
Anyway, my coupon wasn't working and the cashier substituted a different one, which was for less. At this point, a woman was standing just a couple of feet behind me, which was buggin'. I had been standing near my friend while she checked out, but it was obvious we were together by the way we were chatting. But this woman was close, and I'm not big on close.
Coupon wasn't working, we were trying to figure out why, it's taking a couple of minutes, literally, to figure it out. Meantime, Ms. In-Your-Bubble-Annoying decides to start the huffing. You know, that huff/sigh thing. I ignore her. About every fifteen seconds, huff/sigh. Whatever. I'm too old to care what much what other people think.
Finally, it turns out it was my fault, as the coupon was not good until tomorrow, so I take it back, decide not to get the CD, and buy my other item. Of course, Ms. IYBA has to toss in a couple more huffs while I'm paying and getting my change.
That was it. I turned, shoved my face forward into hers, gave her a HUGE smile, at which she smiled back, and then I said, "Happy I'm leaving now?" She immediately dropped her face and started pawing through the bag she was carrying.
But that was nothing, because when I got back to work, I found out that they were doing layoffs and a friend of mine was let go. What a day.
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