what's the deal with the chicks and the cheques?

so there i am at metro earlier today and i'm standing in line awaiting my turn to pay for my groceries and then i notice that the cashier tells the customer in front of me that she owes, like, $18.49 or some random figure like that but the customer hasn't even opened up her purse yet to locate her wallet so that she can pay for her stuff. and then i started thinking to myself that if it had been me standing there and the cashier had told me that i owed, like, $18.49 or some random figure like that, well, i would have already had my debit card in hand and i would be, like, "here you go, ma'am." and while all this is going on in my head, the customer is struggling to remember her personal identification number and so now i'm thinking that if it had been me standing there about to enter my personal identification number into that debit card machine, well, i would have already rehearsed my pin a few dozen times in my head so that when the time came i could enter my password without any hesitation. and while all this is going on in my head, the customer is fumbling to put her debit card back into her wallet and so now i'm thinking that if it had been me standing there about to accept my debit card from the cashier, well, i would have already had my wallet wide open so that i could shove that card back into the sleeve. and while all this is going on in my head, the customer is busy rearranging the groceries inside her plastic bags and so now i'm thinking that if it had been me standing there about to depart with my groceries, well, i would have trusted the professionalism of the cashier to correctly place those groceries inside my bags and then be on my way. but that's just me.

you see, standing in line at the supermarket is a lot like life in that some folks are prepared for what's about to come next and some folks ain't.

"you worry too much, kid. you always did." - anonymous

in honour of today's senseless mayhem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkActP-isE

p.s. you must realize by now that the vast majority of my posts are delivered with tongue planted firmly in cheek. that said, nowhere in my piece do i imply that i expect others to be like me. and you knew that anyway. but i appreciate your kind words when you suggest that i am one of a kind.