Deanna Slater

Earlier tonight while playing TF2 a friend of mine made a comment about my blog, and how I don’t do anything with it anymore. I’ve been thinking about it the last little while, and almost wrote something about a week ago, but didn’t.  So, because of his comment, here I am.  (Hi friend! :P)

The problem is, my life isn’t all the exciting, and while I want to write stuff down here so I’ll be able to look back at it later on, I still struggle with that little voice in my head that says “This is dumb.  No one cares. Keep it to yourself.”  But, I guess just one person telling me they read it is enough to get me here again. haha!

So lets see…  I woke up, had coffee…  lol  Kidding!  (Hi again, friend!)

Yesterday Scott and I went out to the newly renovated Wal-Mart on Upper James.  It’s one of them fancy Supercenters now, so it’s huge and a huge improvement over what it was.  Way back when I worked at Wal-Mart at Eastgate Square, this particular Wal-Mart was kind of known as the “loser” Wal-Mart.  They never had anything in stock, it was small and kinda shitty looking.  Well, not anymore!  Apparently we headed up there for a particular reason but Scott couldn’t remember what when we got there.  Old age strikes again!

We did end up with a few things though.  On our way to the check-out I got slightly sidetracked in the clothing area.  Scott thought I was behind him, but I showed up about a minute later.  By this time, a woman was already behind him.  He actually started talking to her but as he turned around he realized she wasn’t me.  So, I show up and get in line with him.  Some dude then joins her in line and this is how it went:

Me: Sorry, got distracted.

Woman: Are you in line?

Me and Scott: Uh yeah, sorry… (or something like that), before we could finish,

Woman: Oh, it’s ok.

Dude: You got rooked by another couple.

Woman: What?

Dude: You got rooked by another couple.

Woman: Oh yeah, well…

(At this point I’m tempted to say something but keep quiet and listen…)

Dude: You go get in line honey and I’ll just go grab a few things.

Woman: *laughs a little*

(At this point I’m all “on no you don’t! And turn around…)

Me: Yeah, sorry, that was my fault. I was supposed to be right behind him, got sidetracked a little.

Woman: It’s ok, no problem.

Scott: Yeah, I actually thought you were her, that’s why I turned around and started talking to you.

Woman: *laughs* Hey, no problem.

Scott: You can go ahead of us, we’re not in any rush.

Woman: Oh, we’re not in any rush either, it’s ok.

So yeah, she was ok, but the dude… I just wanted to punch him in the face for being a dick.  We had 4 items, no big deal.  I could see if I had a huge cart of stuff… but whatever.   I just immediately wanted to punch that guy when I heard him talk.  Then Scott says to me “That guy kinda reminded me of your brother, he had that face…” *makes the face my brother makes*  BINGO!  That’s why I wanted to punch him, even though I never actually looked at “that face”.  I could sense “that face”.  I’ve wanted to punch “that face” many times over the years.  Pretty sure I sometimes make that face too, though. haha!

We ended up waiting forever in line. Not sure why.  Cashier girl was way too happy to be there, probably new, Christmas help.

After that we went to the grocery store (after stopping at Tim Horton’s for coffee, where I waited forever for some girl who looked like she was on quaaludes to give me two coffees.  Ugh.), picked up a few things, then waited in line forever AGAIN for some old dude to first find his debit card, and then to figure out how to actually use the damn thing.

But through it all, even though I was bitching, I stuck to my “new attitude”.  Yeah, that’s right, I’ve got a new attitude.  Being miserable sucks.  Shit pissing me off sucks.  So, no more!  Well, I still get pissed off, and bitch about stuff, but I don’t let it get to me.  “It’s not gonna ruin my day!” is what I keep saying.  lol

And it didn’t, so that’s good.  I guess.