11/20/2010

So, I had just finished work at about 6:10 this evening, and had a ticket to go see Harry Potter tonight. I was somewhat peckish from having not eaten all day at work, and I'm always far too cheap for movie theatre popcorn, etc. So I decided to hit the Dollar Store prior to the movie in order to just grab a box of candy to chew on during the film. As I approached the door, I was met by a young, terrifyingly thin blonde girl, with a Safeway bag. She looked at me, and said 'Welcome to Dollar Tree. I'm standing here...you know...to greet people!' followed by a bout of fairly crazy-person laughter. I walked into the store, and she followed me. I watched her for a moment, completely silently, and noticed that two of the employees there were doing the exact same thing, waiting for her to leave. Upon her exit from the store, I looked at the two employees, who were exchanging knowing glances, as apparently she had been harassing customers and employees alike for upwards of 15 minutes, and said to them, "I had no idea that the Dollar Store sold meth now!"

According to one of them, they do in fact sell it out of the back of the store, which is where this woman must have procured her VERY recent dosage. After a couple of minutes of joking back and forth about "Susie Strung-Out", my starbursts were given to me for free.

Not one of my finer stories, and it really does work best if you'd been there, but having spent most of today at work, and having only created this blog at about 2 in the afternoon, it was the best I could think up. Still, a fairly amusing moment in my day. Tomorrow will be better.