Open Letters to Assholes | In The Powder Room - UnInspired's Take

Awesome Post at In the Powder Room:
Open Letters to Assholes | In The Powder Room

Ah yes, the second letter particularly reminds me of something recently!

I was at the Dollar Store on Black Friday around 1 p.m. (Yes, I know what that makes me look like, but it was for kids' craft crap only!).  I had quite the load o' crap, but I was basically the only person in the store with my little daughter.  While the clerk was ringing up my *shocking* bill of ~$30 at the Dollar Store, a woman got in line behind me.  (Which by the way, I estimate the entire checkout experience to have lasted only a couple minutes... in no way excessive.)

She started signing loudly and began closing her standing distance into mine, finally invading my personal space to where our arms were all but brushing.  I refused to budge an inch for the B#$@# though, while my daughter loudly started begging for a balloon. 
Paying with Credit/Debit, the machine processing was particularly slow, so she feels the need to tell me, "You know, you have to press the green button."
"I did."
Clerk looks at her and says, "Yeah.... it's the machine."

She doesn't back off an inch, and after the transaction completes she instantly and completely occupies the space by the card-swipe machine before I've even gathered all my bags and stepped away. 

Like, give it up Lady! You go ANYWHERE on Black Friday, you better have your patient pants on especially, and this wasn't exactly the zoo you'd find pretty much anywhere else!

I don't particularly like confrontation, therefore I usually avoid the passive aggression route out of fear of retaliation by such obviously aggressively disturbed people, but man they inspire me to take the direct approach of slapping them!!!

Annnnd it's December 17 already!

Well it's been a while.
But I have a good excuse (this) time.

We've been on our family's Epic Journey 2012 to visit both halves of our extended family. This included a wedding celebration in which our daughter was the flower girl, our 8th Wedding Anniversary, our daughter's 4th birthday, multiple early Christmas celebrations, catching up with some old friends, and visiting several museums and the zoo! The day after we drove back in (~17.75 hours including stops) it was my husband's birthday. Whew!

So, more on the flower girl bit later, because it indeed was Epic and deserves its own post. ;-)

In the meantime, I find myself staring at the pile of Christmas presents needing to be wrapped, and thinking ahead to the holiday baking I promised I'd do, and realizing it's all to be done within the next week. And I'm back to work. And the holiday cards I meant to send.  Yeahhhh

Anyway, here's to coffee this week, and Happy Holidays to you and yours.