people are rude

i scraped myself off the ceiling for like the 5th time today. it's becoming a regular thing--me, quietly going about my business. Rude person, obliviously buzzsawing through my tranquility.

i wanted to pay the man and get my car, freshly lubed and oiled in record time, and get on the road. but the man was nowhere to be seen. so i stood at the cashier's window, alone in the waiting area except for the ghettoized lumberjack who sat in one of the chairs and heaped vulgarities into his cell phone.

i waited for the man to see me through the window and come collect my money, but he was jiffily lubing away, so finally, i stepped away from the cashier's window and opened the door leading to the car bays get his attention. Two feet. I stepped two feet away from the cashier's window, and as i turned back to the window with the cashier in tow, i bumped my back into my lumberjack friend, who had bellied up to the counter in a jiffy, while i got the cashier. He rewarded my effort with a glare and blared loudly into his phone about "how f%^$#ing slow is Jiffy Lube" anyway?

i think i suffer from line rage. whereas i know i suffer from road rage.

This just in--my shift key won't work on any letters in the top row--the qwerty guys, and the iou's. so annoying.   

Comments

[Ron]

1. 'Jiffily'? Ah, a play on Jiffy..
2. You were getting your car 'lubed'? lordy!
3. We can never be in a car together. Actually, two road ragers might be funny, probably end up egging each other on...:-)

[lou lou]

ooooh em, you is back, and u was missed
welcome back

i too suffer from line rage. here in this god foresaken country they do not know what a queue is unlike blighty where everyone queues politely for the most part

[Greavsie]

People jumping queues is a long standing problem.

[Southern Bird]

Oh dear greavsie. You must be destroyed.

(hey em.. wb!)

[em]

aw, i love you guys! :-)

but don't chip in my line. serious consequences.

[Southern Bird]

Just like if you eat my last roast potatoe.
Now that means death.
Obviously

[Splee]

I'm always the arsehole who says to the line jumping arsehole "Do you think it's *ok* to do that? You do know everyone else is waiting too, right?"

It's funny, but usually they get to the back of the line, even if they mumble "nosy git" under their breath. :)

And welcome back em :)

[Ian]

Have some patience Em! He probably had to get back to something important, like shooting Coors cans in his back yard.