i have more to tell from this morning before i came in, since work has been pretty dull today.

i was thirsty and knew we didn’t have anything at the office, so i went to rite-aid (drugsore) to get some juice or something. grabbed some tropicana twisters, which is my favorite line of juices, a pack of gum for later, and headed to the checkout. i was two spaces behind some guy that was taking forever, but i had my headphones on and couldn’t tell why. so the checkout lady suddenly leaves this counter and scrambles all the way to the opposite end of the line of registers (at least 30 feet away) and waves the people behind crazy guy to come down there. so i do (and the people behind me somehow think it’s okay to be in front of me in this new line… what the hell?) and the crazy guy, who is alone at an empty counter, starts yelling how he wants someone to check him out. he shuffles around a bit, yells some stuff i can’t make out, then waits more. the security lady and managers are out trying to calm him, and he yells more, and runs back and forth a little in front of the line of registers, then leaves. i guess he must have been some crazy bum with no money to pay for stuff.

which reminds me of ANOTHER story. my friend melanie, working at denny’s had a bum who was eating there try to leave without paying, and when approached on the way out the door, said, “i’m god, i don’t pay for meals”. melanie said even god had to pay at this denny’s, but he just hobbled calmly out. they called the cops but when they finally got there, the guy was long gone. haha. i should try that.

question: is there any circumstance in which you’d need a dollar instead of four quarters? a non-homeless guy on the street stopped me and asked if i had a dollar for four quarters, and i did, so we traded, and that was that. i couldn’t think of a reason i’d be on the street and need a dollar instead of quarters though, enough to stop people and ask. sometimes you need change for a phone or vending machine or bus fare, but why would you need the bill? yeah, i was puzzled too. if you have an answer to this question, please fill me in.