I thought LTMB could use a little bit of ethnicity in the mix, entonces aqui estoy! (so here I am)

I was at the hardware store yesterday picking up a couple of items. It’s a moderately sized, privately owned local hardware store so there was only one register open with approximately 5 or so people in line. At first I reacted in the standard American manor we all know and love - I was annoyed. How dare I have to wait an extra 2 minutes to check out. Then I realized it wasn’t so bad: it smelled like popcorn, I wasn’t stuck in traffic, and of course there was all sorts of amusing useless shit in the checkout line aimed at impulse buyers (like anti-monkey butt powder, pictured above)

20 seconds after I got in line this “professional” looking guy walks over. I don’t mean a guy in a suit, I mean a tradesman, a guy who clearly makes his living doing hardware store type stuff, a carpenter, gc, painter, plumber, something like that. He proceeded past the line in formed at checkstand #1 to the service counter where he demanded they open another register. He then walked to register #4 (because why would they open up two checkstands right next to each other, that would make too much sense and I’m sure there’s a union rule against it somewhere).

2 Minutes later, he was still over there all by himself and decided to go bitch at the service desk again (not realizing that the people there were taking their sweet time because he was being a jagbag).

So here this guy thinks that he’s more important than everyone else in line, as well as everyone working at the store. Consequently not only did he whine until they opened a new register cut everyone else who had already been waiting in line patiently, but he also only saved himself at most 10 seconds (since he still finished after me, where he would have been anyways) and got flicked off by an 80 year old woman in the parking lot as she got into her Olds 88.

I wish I thought I was better than everyone else in the world, that guy must really have some great self esteem. Hopefully he’ll get his one day when he’s on the other side of the coin. As the golden rule says treat others as you wish to be treated”

Un Saludo, (best wishes)

Juan Luis