Quick blogging before the seder
I forgot about people-I-hate Monday, which is ok, I guess, since there don’t seem to be as many misanthropes around as I might have expected.
Since it’s a day late for that, you can amuse yourself reading how very very indignant people get over the question of under what circumstances, if any, it is appropriate to leave a cart in line at the grocery store to pick up forgotten items.
I am surprised that my answer (it’s acceptable for one or two items, and only until you’d start putting your items up while the people in front of you are being served — at that point, the people behind you move your stuff out of the way) isn’t very common. I also go to a coffee shop, put down a coat or sweater or purse (after removing wallet), then order. I have no intention of buying coffee if I am playing Russian roulette with the chance of getting a table.
In other news, one of the cats (female, I think) has decided to hide *somewhere*, and I don’t know where. This means that they are loose in my house overnight (there is nowhere for them to go, I’m just hoping they’re not destructive). But both cats have now purred while I patted them at least once. Matilda is with my at my parents’ house, shooting the evil eye at the orange cat, who just wants to be loved. She will hate me even more this weekend when I have my friend’s two cats as well.
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I’m with you on the supermarket thing, I think. I think it’s fine as long as the line is still moving. The minute the cashier would be waiting for you, you get skipped and the next person gets served. Otherwise, who’s it hurting? No one is having to wait any longer than they would otherwise.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:03 am
True misanthropes hate alone; perhaps your invitation for them to hate alongside you on Mondays has them seething in silence, a fact for which they’d thank you if it weren’t against their characters.