
So. There I am.
In
line, at the Pathmark. A long one. There is a
very
large woman with food in her hair scratching her
ass
in front of me. She has four preschool children
and
one teenage son in line with her. The
preschoolers
are all wearing NOTHING but dirty,
sagging
pampers. One of the little ones is pulling
every
single thing off the magazine rack, and putting
it
in her mouth. One of the children, the one with
the
MOST snot running out of his nose, has decided to
hug
my leg. The mother keeps sending the teenage boy
to
find more food to buy. Barbecue chips. The other
kind
of hot sauce. Another thing of kool-aid.

Behind
me in line, there is a very old, wheezing,
sweaty
man standing WAY too close. Every time I turn
around
he's looking. Looking. Looking.
The
woman in front of me begins screaming at her
children.
They appear unconcerned, until she grabs
one
by the arm and slaps him with a large hand on the
side
of the face, rather hard. The rest of the
children
begin screaming, all except for the teenage
boy.
He's away, getting some bacon. The woman is
hitting
all of the kids now. I let the word "Damn"
slip
out of my mouth and the woman turns and looks at
me,
obviously ready for a fight. I turn my head, and
there
is the old, wheezing man, right up in my face.

The
woman finally gets up to the cash register, and is
paying
with an Access card. There is not enough money
on
the card, so the woman starts going through her
items
to take out the unnecessary ones. She discards
the
BABY FORMULA, and keeps the barbecue chips and
four
liters of pepsi. She discards the cat food, and
keeps
the bacon. The cashier has to ring the order
all
over again. Still not enough money on the card.
This
whole cycle goes on no less than three more
times.
She's discarding items. The kids are still
screaming.
The woman has become agitated with the
cashier.
She begins calling the cashier a punk, and a
bitch,
and something else I couldn't understand,
because
she has chips ahoy in her mouth while she's
yelling
it.
Suddenly,
the elemental plane of vomit opens up and
engulfs
the entire store, drowning everyone inside.
True
story.
