Prove I'm a loser please

What more evidence did she need?

from JoeUser Forums

I hate waiting in lines.  Really, really hate waiting in line....

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... but sometimes the wait can actually be somewhat entertaining thanks to the utter irony of the situation.

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So, I'm headed out to my favorite pizza place to enjoy their lunch buffet (which wasn't as good today as I would have liked, at least not until they put out some of my preferred type, fresh and hot, right at the end of my dining period) and I wanted to pick up a news paper to read while I dined so I stopped into 7-11 to pick up the paper.  While I'm there one woman was already paying for her items as I was picking up the paper from the rack, and another woman was walking towards the register just as I had grabbed the paper and started doing the same.  Oh well, guess I'll be stuck waiting behind her....

Oh the joys of that experience.  It turns out that the woman in line that was just in front of me had some lottery business to tend to.  Argh.  Check this ticket, give me a new ticket, oh this one is a winner so give me another just like it, and let me pay for my soda, chips, pork rinds and other garbage while doing all of that.  Meanwhile I stand with $0.27 in my hand waiting to hand it to the poor cashier so I can just be on my way.  The more impatient I was getting the more I waited as the woman kept driving the cashier crazy asking about this lottery item and that lottery item, etc.

Finally, she seems to have everything done but there's apparently a problem.  One of her tickets wasn't a winner but she wants it back.  She wants it back because she needs something to prove -- her words -- that 'it was a loser'.

Lady, if you need proof you're a loser, just look at the lottery tickets in your hand.  All it takes is one to be there for any sane individual to look and call you a loser.  A winner doesn't play the lottery.  It's a fool's game and handing money to the system to get a ticket just show what a loser you really are.  Even if you are lucky enough to get back a few $$ from the system every now and again, the only real way to win is to never play the game to begin with (with apologies for perhaps borrowing a few words from the old movie War Games).

I was glad the woman finally did finish her business, even as I snickered a bit at the irony of her demands to be shown that she was a loser.

Have I said before I hate waiting in lines?  Yeah, I still do....

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
LOL, I love lottery tickets. Just the scratch-offs, though. Gambling is illegal in HI so it's fun to be able to buy them again now that we're back in Texas. I usually get one for me and one for the boys...about 2 times a year...but it's always fun to scratch them off.

I don't understand people who have tons of complicated business and tons of items who insist on being helped before others with few or one item who are obviously in a hurry. To me that is inconsiderate to an extreme level.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I usually don't end up with the waiting in line sort of luck. Just last night, I had to pick up some tomatoes on my way home. I stood behind a couple of folks at the self checkout. The person checking out finished up and the woman in front noticed I only had one thing so she insisted that I go before her.

This time I would have been happy to wait because I was having a conversation with one of my children's NICU nurses and his wife but she insisted. She said she was paying by check and didn't want to hold me up.

All I need to do to get hung up behind the worst kind of customer though is to be in a hurry.

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