Sixteenth Anniversary of his Twenty-Ninth Birthday

Barb really is evil. it's not just me, or my imagination. she's an old lady whos a bagger at kroger. okay, i knew she was mean, and i knew that there were other people who didn't like her- she got transferred to deli once and got transferred back in less than a month because they couldn't stand her- but i didn't know that she had such a horrible effect on people other than me. the first time she came through my line she got me so frustrated and flustered that i was on the verge of tears for twenty minutes or so afterwards. thankfully the lady after her was very sweet (barb had suggested to her that she go to another line because i didn't know what i was doing) i'd worked there for at least a couple months when that all happened. even now, when she bags for me, she has the talent of getting under my skin in record times of about twenty seconds. as it takes quite a bit to really annoy me or get me upset, i'm sure you all can appreciate how great a 'talent' that is. anyway, around to the point of why i'm writing this today. we have a bagger, rachel, who just started working about a week ago. she's a sweetheart. really shy and quiet, quieter than me even, i think, but she does whatever she's told and she's polite and very nice, and she tries hard. anyway, i looked up for a second today and all of a sudden i notice that she's crying, and don (who was bagging for me) said something to her about how everyone makes mistakes, and it was okay, and she kept crying, and i think judy let her go to the back to calm down for a bit. i didn't find out what happened for a few minutes, because i was still in the middle of an order, but apparently rachel had put a bag with eggs and bread on the bottom of the cart, and barb told her off for it. grr, she makes me mad. don happens to be convinced that shes evil, and is really just a walking corpse. i think he may have something there. okay, i'm being mean, but really, barb was way out of line. it wasn't even that big a deal- just move the bag, no need to yell at the girl and make her cry, i mean, geez. and i heard judy telling rachel later that barb had been out of line to yell at her, and that rachel didn't do anything wrong, which made me feel better.

as for less maddening news, apparently ken (store manager) turned fortyfive today. or turned twenty nine for the sixteenth time, as he preferred. he got a huge bunch of balloons, like two dozen or so. i wanted to hold them to see if they would lift me in the air at all.

and an update on my car: it is in beautiful working order, the only thing thats still wrong with it from before grandpas friend took it away is that the pasenger door still won't open from the outside. it does, however, have a new engine with only 70,000 miles on it, which , quote, "purrs like a kitten." i'm getting it on sunday. since its too nice to be a birthday present for just me, its technically a family car, but i'll be the main driver. yay!

and now for an update on my license: i called the bmv today, and the earliest they could schedule me was 6/23. my temps expire on 6/22. so they said if i keep calling, they might get a cancellation spot that they can put me in.


Good and evil are perfectly balanced- evil people are just louder.
~me