Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Crap I am becoming old...and cantankerous

So I am driving home Sunday afternoon and I call my wife to see if she would like anything while I am on my way home, that is code word for would you like something that I can get throw a drive through. I'm not lazy by any means I do lots around the house and I work a lot to help provide for my family, but when I am en route home I really don't want to get out of the car.

Anyway back to the phone call to the loving wife... She says sure get me a Cafe Mocha and get a vanilla dip doughnut for boy #1. I ask her what about the other one she replies that he has already been binging on sugar today so he doesn't need any more. So I am OK cool I'll see you when I get home then.

I wheel into the Tim Horton's near the house and I wait my turn in the already long line up for the drive through. I think no problem they usually have pretty quick people working the drive through. Well I sit there and I sit there. I am looking at the line from the ordering speaker to the pickup window start to separate from the line to the ordering speaker... Then the line at the pick up window is gone there is only a van sitting at the ordering speaker. And it sits and it sits and when it is done sitting it sits for some more... It felt like he was sitting there for an eternity I estimate the actual time to be just under 5 minutes, this is not acceptable behaviour for drive through activity. So I finally see this inconsiderate S.O.B move his gas guzzling monstrosity out of the way and up to the pickup window.... and he sits...and sits. I watch the three other cars behind order and move up behind the inconsiderate jackass. and I am getting kind of excited at this point because I am moving and not just because people in front of me have given up and are going in the store now. I am really moving in the line up (yay me!). So I look to the pick up window again it is still the same blue van. Dammit. WTF? This guy must have ordered lunch for an entire office, his bill must be $70.00 again unacceptable behaviour, if you have a large complex order get you lazy ass out of your car and go in the store it will be easier on everyone around you. So I finally see the van inch forward about 3 feet only to see the brake lights flash on again and the jackass gets out of his vehicle to walk back to the pick up window. Fuck me sideways what now? Apparently they forgot part of his order so he had to go back to get his cluster of sugar for his whining brat in the back seat or else his wife who is sitting beside him won't give him his balls back so he can watch the football game in the afternoon. So I see him standing at the window he is making all the stupid "I'm sorry" faces at the car directly behind him. Well my window is already rolled down and I am quite set off right now. I have had enough of waiting I have been in line for close to ten minutes now. So I spurt off the first thing that comes to mind, "Go in the store for a large order you JACKASS!" I know he heard me because I saw him looking around to see where it came from and his stupid "I'm sorry" face went away.

It was at that moment that I transitioned from accepting middle aged man to cantankerous aging white guy. I am only 36...