A few pet peeves

Listening to 'Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree' by KT Tunstall

1) People who honk at pedestrians who dare to cross with the light, in the crosswalk
2) People who break hundred dollar bills by buying gum and then complain when you only have fives to give them.
3) People under twenty-five who leave their IDs in the car
4) People who throw money at you rather than put it in your hand
5) Children who play with the noise-making candy
6) Adults who play with the noise-making candy
7) People who throw cigarettes and other trash on the ground
8) People who can't fill out the f^%$ing lottery slips and want you to key in their numbers instead
9) People who throw up in your restroom and don't tell you. This goes for those who throw up anywhere you're expected to clean up, like trash cans and parking lot
10) Parents who send their kids in with a dollar where the kids hold up the line by asking you twenty times whether they can get this or that (see kids who play with the noise-making candy)

The last one I actually got to see karma in action. Two kids come in with a dollar and ask what candy they can get. I tell them most of the candy is more. (In retrospect, their best bet were tootsie pops, one for each, since those are 50 cents, but with tax, it'd still be over a dollar. The candy bars are 85 cents, but I wasn't thinking of those at the time). This starts to take awhile and the line forms, and the man behind them says he'll pay for whatever they pick out. So of course they pick up the $4 airplane candies, then change their minds to the somewhat cheaper boxing glove candy. He experiences sticker shock but goes ahead and puts two on his credit card. I explain to them that they should give the nice man the dollar and tell their mother that someone bought candy for them. Then I send the little darlings back out to their parental unit and continue waiting on customers. The guy sheepishly looks at me and says, 'I can't resist kids.' I smile, not because of his good deed, but because these candies have a switch that sends the boxing glove out on an expanding spring with an annoying 'broooooiiiiinnnngggg' sound. Mind you, it's annoying the first time. The hundredth would send most adults over the edge completely. Hee hee. That'll be the last time they're sent in to choose something without parental supervision. Ha ha.

Okay, that may be my evil, wicked side showing. But you have to admit, it's funny...and as a comic store employee and a librarian I've experienced children being dropped off as if to be babysat, so I'm sure many of you can relate. I'm sure theatre and mall workers have war stories to tell as well. Feel free to share yours here. :)

Oh, and I forgot, one more...

11) People who drive off without paying for their gas. May there be a special circle of hell for them, where they're chained to a pump for eternity and have their eyes and organs plucked out by buzzards, only to have them regenerate over and over.