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Old Oct 15, 2006, 11:10 PM
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Had an altercation at the grocery store. Some woman had finished paying for her groceries and didn't move out of the checkout line while they were being put into the cart for her. I was behind her. She'd had tons of stuff as it was, and my back was killing me (it's strained. I had just come from the acupuncturist). The checker was ringing up my stuff (I didn't have much) and I was going to pay with my ATM. I couldn't get to the machine to run it through because she was still in the way. I said "Excuse me." She told me that the girl hadn't finished packing her stuff into her cart. Like that gave her the right to stand there, blocking everyone else from getting their transaction done.

I must tell you, I don't "do" rudeness well. To me, that was just rude. All she had to do was move around to the side of her cart and I could have pushed mine through and reached the machine (there was a line behind me waiting, too). My blood started to boil. Just before she started walking away, I mumbled under my breath, "If you'd move your fat ***, we could all get out of here." (She wasn't fat all over, but she had an enormous ***. It filled the whole aisle) She turned around and said, very confrontationally, "What did you say?" I asked her what part of that she didn't understand. She started yelling at me, poking her finger in my face and cursing me - not swear words. She was saying that my behavior would come back on me a thousand times, and that sort of thing. I told her "same to you." She walked away.

As I was finishing my transaction, she came back, yelling some more (and pointing her finger in my face) that I had hurt someone today (her, presumably) and I had to live with it. I just said the same thing back to her, pointing my finger (just copying her behavior. By this time I was tired of her venting).

All the way home I was pissed. This woman chose to get upset about what was said (many people would have just written it off or said something rude to me), and made me a scapegoat. She acted like she was a poor, innocent victim, all the while she was reining curses on me. This broad was no sweet, innocent person that this big, bad monster insulted. Quite the opposite!

It's California, I swear. People are so obnoxious here.
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