Walmart

     Maybe one of the strongest inspirations for me to start writing this blog was an experience I had at Walmart about a week or so ago. Before I go on let me give you a little preface about me. I graduated with a BS in Psychology and I have studied many diversity style classes. By no means am I a racist or do I endorse racists beliefs/comments. However, throughout this blog I will periodically call things as I see them. If you can't handle that, then I suggest skipping to the next post :-). 

     Anyways, Walmart. Now I never expect to make a trip to Walmart without seeing something absurd. However, there was one special trip in particular I am going to share with you today. I would also be interested to know if any of you have experienced this. I was doing my thing like normal at the checkout line, putting up groceries one by one on the conveyer belt. By the time I was done I expected the woman infront of me to be done checking out. Just from first impressions she was a white female, dressed in the most expensive clothes and jewelry and she had a very expensive smart phone. I also couldn't help but notice her continuously throwing items off the conveyer belt because she decided not to buy them. Because I had nothing better to do than stand in line I then started to observe her groceries.

     Now I am not one to judge anyone based on their groceries, but it is always interesting to me when people buy super expensive groceries without coupons or taking advantage of certain sales. I happened to then notice her continuously counting her cash and watching her total. All of a sudden she tells the lady to stop because she doesn't want the rest of her groceries (which happened to still be a lot.) I also noticed that she had many items underneath her cart that hadn't been wrung up yet.

     The reason this is so annoying for me is it held up the line for about 20 minutes. I am not always in a hurry, but that doesn't mean I enjoy spending extra time waiting in line for no good reason. My other complaint deals with the fact that she knew she had an exact amount of cash to spend, yet she paid no attention to how much she was putting in her cart. As anyone who has to work with a budget understands, use a CALCULATOR! Surely on that very expensive smart phone a calculator app is built in. Not only that, but I could have bought 4 times the groceries with the same amount of money she spent on what she bought due to poor choices.

    I find that experiences like this leave a very bad taste in my mouth. While I understand that everyone has the right to make their own choices, I am still amazed that some people are that stupid (yes, stupid.) I would personally be extremely embarrassed if I did not have enough money for my groceries, let alone the fact that I was holding up a very long line behind me while I go through things to put back. I guess this is why they say we are all "unique" and different. Hopefully next time I end up behind someone less "unique" so that my groceries don't spoil by the time I get to my car.