I'm quickly losing faith in humanity...

There must be something about the combination of living on Long Island and going shopping (or maybe just walking into a PetCo) that automatically turns someone into an extremely rude snob. Now normally this involves someone yelling at me over $0.11 or something equally as trivial, but today I witnessed something on an entire different level.

I decided to make a quick stop by the store today to see if the schedule was finally made (because it's apparently too difficult for my manager to make one more than a day before the current schedule expires, but that's another rant entirely) and buy Emma some new food. As I walked through the door and towards the registers to say hi to my fellow comrades, I noticed there was water everywhere on and around register 1. EVERYWHERE. Standing next to the register was an irate looking woman, saying "I don't know where she went. I want to be rung up NOW. And quickly etc." Now I would have been angry as well if I were standing in a pool of water and the cashier had disappeared. Granted not yelling, but annoyed. Anyway, when Karen returned I jokingly asked what she did to make that mess. Apparently that customer's daughter saw a bag of fish sitting at the register, reached her arm out, opened it and threw it to the floor. Obviously the water and fish went everywhere. And what did the customer do? Stood there, watching Karen try to save some dying fish, which she was semi-successful. So not only does this customer not offer to clean up the mess, yell at her daughter for behaving poorly, move out of the way, apologize, etc. she actually stands there yelling that it was taking too long for her to be rung up because of the mess. And then proceeded to ask why there were fish on the counter to begin with, blaming PetCo staff for the mess because the fish were placed there. ::Sigh:: Thankfully the man who was purchasing the fish was extremely understanding and patient. But when did it become acceptable to not apologize for something your young children did, especially if it happened in front of you? And when did parents stop discliplining their children?

Now I know I joke that I'd make a horrible parent. But as the daughter of a charm school graduate (of which I am reminded of weekly) I would never let my kid(s) behave like that. Hell, I couldn't imagine behaving like that myself. Maybe it's the drinking water. The super in my building did tell me not to drink it, something about it corroding copper pipes requiring them to be replaced every two years. Maybe it's all the pollution, although I attended middle school on an old toxic waste dump, approximate eight million medical problems aside, it clearly has not affected me. So I can only draw one conclusion. 99% of the people who live here are douches. And they reproduce with each other, spawning a mini army of douchebags, known as the future population of Long Island.

So what am I going to do about this? Move. Haha. Well aside from counting down the days until I leave for Chicago, I decided I am going to be the anti-douche (well to people working in retail anyway). For example, today I got some coffee from a Starbucks stand in a Stop & Shop. (Note: not stop n shop, as that is the ghetto liquor store by my apartment next to a cell phone store that advertises "no ID required!!!!" Again, yay Long Island!) Usually the coffee's not made correctly, so I don't expect much. And when the guy had to look in a book to see how to make it, I realllly didn't expect much. He asked me to try it while I was standing there, and it was hot so I just took a sip, mumbled "it's fine" and walked away. But it was more than fine! It was by far the best caramel mocciato I've had there. So I went back to let him know. And apparently that made his day, because he had been dealing with the same douchebags that I deal with at PetCo. Apparently now I have a connection there to get some free shots of expresso :) . It's really kind of pathetic, and speaks a lot about the people out here when a simple thing like that can make your day. Hell, I'm just happy when people don't yell at me or speak to me like I haven't graduated from high school. So why am I rambling about this? Probably because I really want some coffee right now, but I think a gang has assembled in my building's parking lot and I don't want to risk my life for coffee. Although apparently people risk their lives for Popeyes, so maybe one day I'll become more adverterous.

Ok enough rambling. The Yankees won today. Andy Pettitte played a great game, and my man hit a single that drove in two runs in the first inning. And yesterday I figured out how to watch Yankees games in HD in Chicago. So basically, life is good!