Missed opportunities
You ever have those golden moments; the ones that as soon as they pass you by you find yourself wishing you had done/said/not done/not said something? I had one of those at the "store":http://www.gianteagle.com/ tonight. I had to stop by and pick up a few essentials (how the hell do I go through so much ketchup?), and I get to the express line and there's a woman from the "Pittsburgh Parking Authority":http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/pghparkingauthority/html/pittsburgh_parking_authority.html directly in front of me. She sort of looks around, and then wanders off to another line a few down to see if it's going to go any faster. I didn't move up, because the line was long enough that people were having trouble getting by, and I was leaving a big enough gap for them to walk through. After about 30 seconds or so Parking Woman comes back, and slides right back to where she was. I wish I wish I had thought to step up, and tell her she had cut in front of me. Here's how the conversation would have gone:
*Me:* Excuse me, but I believe I was already in line. *PW(Parking Woman):* Oh, I was already in this line. *Me:* Let me guess... you just stepped away for a minute, right? You were coming right back? It's not even your shopping basket? Everyone else left the line too and you're not asking them to move? *PW(Parking Woman):* (stammers) I... uh... *Me:* [Grabs the parking ticket computer thingy off of her belt and proceeds to whack her in the back of the head, take her wallet, and run off] See how you like it! Haha haha hahaha!!!
But, sadly, that didn't happen. Maybe next time.