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.

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