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Complainers Anonymous?
Posted by Simple Dude | Posted in Random Simplicity, Stupid People | Posted on 25-02-2013
They always say the first step towards getting better is admitting you have a problem right? Well I have a problem… I am a Bitch-A-Holic. This is nothing new and there was no recent moment of enlightenment. I have always done a lot of bitching, pretty much my whole life.
And I have always recognized these complaining tendencies. In fact complaining for me is like an art form. The world and the stupid people that we are forced to endure each day are my canvas, my negative attitude is my paint and my verbal creativity is my brush. I’m cool with that.
I have discovered that this may be something to be proud of… in a weird sort of way. I’ll write more about that in my next post.
This wouldn’t stop me from complaining.
I’ll admit my complaining can occasionally be without merit, but more often something has happened to really irk me. Just last week, my Lady Friend and I were on vacation and we stopped at a grocery store to pick up a few items, well below the 12 items or less threshold for the express lane. Despite that lane having an extra person or two waiting I hopped right in, figuring they have less crap so it should go quicker… right? This theory would hold up if the person doing the “checking out” realized it was an EXPRESS LANE.
Or more accurately if the manager assigning duties to the employees realized it was an express lane. In this particular case they chose the chattiest, slowest employee they had on their roster and plopped her down in the express lane. Well after people paid she was still asking them questions about their lives. Meanwhile, the eye-daggers I was sending her from the back of the line was not moving things along.
I watched people in the normal lanes whipping through faster than we were. When it was my turn to pay I pushed my check card into her face before she even finished ringing up the total. And as the transaction was ending, I had my bags in hand, starting to walk away as she handed me the receipt – lest she attempt to make conversation and piss off more people behind me.
Some people would shake this off and forget it, but I complained about this incident to everyone who would listen. My name is Jon… they call me the Simple Dude. And I am a Bitch-A-Holic.
As I mentioned earlier, there may be a bright side to this addiction… I am thinking it through now and will write more in a couple days.
SD
P.S. Oh, and we had a great vacation – though it sucks to be back in “winter” now. I’ll post more about that with pictures later too!
So I am pretty sure that this was an incident that merited bitching. I have been in that situation and just the other day while in the check out line I was HIGHLY annoyed by the old bat in her hover round in front of me commanding the checkout girl how to pack her groceries in her reusable grocery sacks.
Seriously you old hag the rest of us have lives. Then she wanted to use three YES THREE forms of payment which resulted in a whole different pile of crap to wait through.
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@9:42 am
I hate that too. I purposely get in the non exspress line for that very reason. I always get done faster. Go figure.
PS: glad you had a great vacation.
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@9:45 am
Glad to hear you enjoyed the vacation, welcome back! My gf likes to remind me that I bitch and complain about a lot of stuff, and often. Seems like she’s always saying that. Hmm, maybe she’s on to something?
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@9:53 am
@Bluenote: My lady friend does the same thing. Since she is always pointing it out to me, I am starting to think SHE is the one who has a problem. Now I just need to get her to buy it.
@Sweety: I feel your pain. Glad to hear I am not the only miserable person at grocery stores – ha!
@Susan: I think you’re onto something. You actually use the NON express lane to get out quicker. What is wrong with this world??
Posted on: Feb/25/2013@10:19 am
Oh, don’t *even* get me started!
Posted on: Feb/25/2013@11:16 am
You rant is valid and holds truth. I must agree completely! And a tip of the hat to you, sir!
My name is Dan and I too, am a bitch-a-holic
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@11:37 am
I must agree with all the agreers. I go in the self check-out lane for this reason.
Sometimes your bitching is the best laugh of my day so you’re actually doing a service to the public.
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@11:45 am
I am the queen of complaining in this family, in fact if someone wants to complain about something they will say hey Jo-Anne can you write a letter complaining about……..and I do…………lol I also complement when people do good work
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@5:51 pm
I used to be a lot like that too. But I found nobody was listening. So I started a blog…
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Posted on: Feb/25/2013@6:42 pm
I think you are being to hard on yourself, that shop assitant situation would have bugged the hell out of me too and I am an eternal optimist!
Posted on: Feb/26/2013@7:32 pm
You do bitch a lot but I think it’s okay because you explain it all in your PS- “It sucks to be back in winter again.” You’ve got, “Seasonal Affected Disorder.” You’re in the right part of the country for it. Come South and scuba dive at Key West. Move to Arizona. As a last resort buy a couple of small bars of bright LED’s and Velcro them to the underside of a ball cap. Keep them turned on all the time or at least until you get a pretty good tan on your cheeks. You need more light in your life.
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Posted on: Feb/27/2013@8:03 pm
Thank God I’m not the only one. I, apparently, complain a lot. My boyfriend now has a code word for me if my complaining gets on his nerves. It’s Tommy Lee Jones, because of the character he played in Hope Springs. The guy was a complainer…just like me.
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Posted on: Feb/27/2013@11:11 pm
I was once a checkout chick on the Express lane. It was an extra half-day shift I’d picked up on Friday mornings when I was at uni. It was the only checkouts shift I worked, so I found it kind of fun, and sort of considered it a part of my weekend. Which brings me to a rather compromising confession … that I’d often go out clubbing Thursday night and show up to work on Friday morning still a little … let’s say “high” … from the night before. I would be dancing around at my register, chatting at top speed to everyone who came near me, or just singing to myself if no one was around.
It may not have been the most professional behaviour ever, but I had the fastest ring time of anyone in that whole store, and customers loved their brief but hilarious chats with the most energetic enthusiastic checkout chick they’d ever met. You would have loved me too – I took “express” to the next level.
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Posted on: Mar/1/2013@10:34 pm