Instinct failure on aisle 12...
September 22, 2006
Happy Friday, blog buddies!
Generally, I have great instincts. If I get a bad feeling about a freeway, I'll take another route. Later, I'll learn there was horrible traffic on the freeway I didn't take. If I meet someone and get a bad vibe, later I'll find out that that person was arrested for shoplifting (true story). If I think to myself, "I should grab my umbrella just in case", it'll rain.
However, there is one specific situation in which my instincts will always inevitably fail me: picking a line at the grocery store.
I'm not kidding. There could be a line at one register 15 carts long and, at another register, only one person buying a Snickers. The logical choice in my mind is to get in the line with just one person. But some how - SOME HOW - that one person doesn't know how to use an ATM card or doesn't speak English or wants to exchange his Snickers for a Butterfinger or the cash register is broken or the cashier's shift is over and they need to count their drawer before the next cashier takes over. And EVERY TIME I stand there and watch the 15 carts in the other line breeze through as I wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait.
You think I'm kidding? I'm really not. If I'm shopping with a friend and they ask, "What line?", I always always always say, "YOU PICK."
It used to drive me crazy, but it doesn't even really faze me anymore - I'm used to it. I'm like the Sylvia Browne of grocery stores.
But, as I waited 10 minutes in the express line yesterday for the woman in front of me to get a price check on Pepto-Bismol (again, true story), I began to wonder - am I the only person in the world who has this... affliction?
Is there anything that YOU do that you KNOW will turn out the same way every time no matter what? Are YOUR instincts ever wrong in specific situations? Or am I just crazy? Maybe a little bit of both?
In other news...
Hallelujah. Last night was the return of new Thursday night TV! Did you watch? Didya didya?!? I watched My Name is Earl, The Office and Grey's Anatomy and loved each one. My favorite part of the night? When McDreamy told Meredith he loved her. Single tear and Idon'tevencare...
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$375.00!!!
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Tomorrow I'm going to Costco to buy a bunch of crap for my birthday party on Sunday. I'm getting SO excited!!!
Tonight I'm forcing myself to get out of the house and be social. But I don't know where or with whom. Cut to me sitting at a bar alone binging on pretzels. Oh well.
Have a GREAT Friday, blogaroonies!
Until tomorrow!
Ross
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