you're doing it WRONG!

so, to preface this, i wrote this post at work (in my SWEET ASS french journal with my SWEET ASS pen. seriously, envy me.
+=my jam.)
and seriously, after i finished, every single customer added a new dimension. they might be able to read my thoughts, which is unsettling, to say the least, but useful. 


moving on.


here is something near and dear to my heart: proper line ettiquite. turns out that a lot of people just can't work it out. they either a) shout things at me while i am clearly attending to someone else, or b), take "line" to be interpretive. it is not.


i love when people are not even close to being next in line and then waltz on up, hoping that they can just pay and leave. listen, i realize that it can be annoying to wait forever because the three people in front of you are getting some complicated things and you just want a pepsi. but as it turns out, i don't know how much the soda is with the tax and i'm in the middle of steaming milk here. stop. go to the gas station if you need your mountain dew that badly. sometimes these people try to form new lines. sometimes i ignore them. are you in front of the register? if not, you don't get served. sighing and tapping your fingers only makes me go slower (although that is always true. oh, you need your change RIGHT NOW? hold on a mo', i forgot how to count.)


now then, a line is exactly what it sounds like. picture one in your head. if what you are seeing is this ______, then good job, i am happy to give you things. buy fyi, a line is not a scrum. if you huddle all in a mass no one knows what is going on. one after another, not side by side. get it together because only you care who got there first. its coffee, not ellis island, so chill. 


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really, the worst part of it is that there has only been one time where there were more than like, 4 people in line. it is not a busy place, which is what makes it even more confusing. i've seen this happen with only two people in line, such as...


UPDATE: (this is what i mean, people) just a little bit after writing the above, some dude came up and managed to stand both next to and in front of a girl who was in the middle of ordering. rude. but, and this is the interesting part (i guess), he wasn't some impatient kid trying to buy candy, he was at least 65. and generally, the people who form the register scrums or try to start new lines are old. this really makes me wonder if lines didn't come to the states until the 60's. 


i then observed another trend, where the next person in line stands at least five feet away from the person in front of them and waaaaay off to the side. in line? looking at the menu? milling around just to bother me? THERE ARE NO RULES HERE! 


do other people see these things in life?