( From a tiny room in NJ, here's to hoping everyone is having/had a happy and healthy holiday. )

Wrong Aid?

So, as a Rite Aid employee, I feel it's my duty to extensively document all of the crazy people that come in. Granted, this is not possible since seemingly every customer contains some level of crazy, albeit, some more than others.

The recent story of crazy contains a bit more than the others, especially since I feel it directly insulted my intelligence because it was a trap that I fell right into.

So picture 2 boys. Tall boy and small boy. Both Caucasian, white males, couldn't have been any older than 20. And even that's being generous probably. So tall boy comes up to my register and asks how much lighter fluid is. Now, I'm thinking, "That's a stupid question, walk to the front of the registers and look yourself". But, bearing in mind that 98% of the population is inherently lazy, I figured this would be too much to ask, so I walked the 4 feet away, and as I turned around to ask him if he was inquiring about the small or large bottle, a regular customer shouts, "He's stealing a carton of cigarettes!"

Now, not being a smoker, it takes me a second to process anything tobacco product related, since before this job, I knew literally nothing about anything cigarette-related, besides the fact that there's Marlboros, Camels, and Parliaments.

So, after the split second passes, and I turn around to call him out on this, he starts to walk away. And then I yell. And then he starts to run. Sans small boy. In case this got a little convoluted, let me just say, that tall boy reached BEHIND me, when I turned around to see how much the lighter fluid *actually* was (small = $4.19, large = $4.39...will never forget that one), and stuffed an entire. carton. (Ohh, about 70$ worth of Marlboro Lights), under his hoodie.

Small boy still hasn't left yet. Give him about 30 seconds. He "picks up" his phone, even though I don't think there was anyone on the other end, I think he just wanted to look busy, and when my boss told him to get out, and to not come back in by himself or with his friend ever again, he cops the. biggest. attitude possible for his tiny body. We're talking, "EXCUSE ME LADY, what are you TALKING about? What FRIEND? I didn't come in with any FRIEND." Seriously kid? Your friend just stole over 50$ worth of cigarettes, get out.

So, welcome to my life. I get tricked by thieves but I'm in school to get my masters degree. So much for street smarts.

4oh4.

This basically needs no explanation besides the fact that it's an awesome 404 page.

-less.

"Regardless of what you have heard, 'irregardless' is a redundancy. The suffix '-less' on the end of the word already makes the word negative. It doesn’t need the negative prefix 'ir-' added to make it even more negative."
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Maureen and Rachel and I were trying to think of this word over a lovelyy Bagel Chateau breakfast on Sunday morning, and couldn't think of it until we got in the car and Rachel yelled, "Irregardless!" And it totally makes sense, it's just one of those things that you don't really think about. "Irregardless" doesn't seem like it should be a real word though, but it is...

In other news, it took a painfully long 10 hours to get from NJ to Boston on Sunday afternoon.

But Thanksgiving was good. Yearly 'thankful list' coming up soon...