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The Quest to Get My Spouse a Bus Card Because People are Vicious.
I drop off and pick up my spouse from work every day. It’s fine in the morning because nobody else is even awake yet, so I can get there and back about as fast as I feel like driving, with the occasional stop light. It’s great.
But then I have to get up and go get him in the evening when everyone is getting off work, coming in from Chicago, schools letting out, schoolbuspocalypse….
Then there’s always some jalopy that’s broken down or someone in another stolen Kia or Dodge Charger that was going 100 in a 30 and slammed into someone.
It’s impossible to make good time, and gasoline is like crazy expensive now on top of that.
Today, the security guard/rent-a-cop guy at Walmart that hasn’t had any effect on the shoplifters got bored and decided to chase me out of the place that’s not really a parking spot, but it’s not a handicapped or fire zone. He walks over, looks at the other cars, glances at me for a moment, walks back over, gets in his little rent-a-cop mobile, and turns his yellow flashers on and parks next to me and gets out and starts writing down my plate number in a little pad of paper. I decide I’m getting the hell out of there, and throw it in reverse.
People behind me, so the security officer just doesn’t want to deal with this and tears up the paper and told me don’t worry about it, just don’t park there again.
I told him he could have just asked.
Then when I went up the ramp to get home there was a rather large woman in a white van that threw it in reverse and almost caused a 4 car pile up because she lost a $10 blue Coleman cooler she could have replaced at Walmart.
So I rolled my window down and told her she was crazy and “What the hell does she think she’s doing?”, and drove off while she was trying to backtalk me because I don’t care.
I have a dashcam that records everything all around it because there’s a lot of insurance scammers in Illinois and there’s like three lawyers for every human that lives here.
Half of the entire state GDP is basically just lawyers in Chicago asking people if they’ve swooped-and-squatted anyone, you know, and gives them a fake neck brace to wear in court. Saul Goodman stuff.
Your insurance cuts them a check, they go after you, you can’t afford to drive again.
So I got on the Ventra Web site right now and loaded $10 on a card and they said it will come to my mailbox in 7-10 days.
I figure with the price of gas alone these days, it’s good to have.
Walmart keeps giving him a 5.5 hour shift here and there because of the ongoing national hour cuts, and it’s just not worth going through all of this, ESPECIALLY on one of those days.
Get 4 hours sleep and go through something pretty much like what I just described to try to get him home in the evening when the Pace bus is $2.
Even if I just go park in the abandoned pizza business’s lot over by the bus stop and drive him home the last bit of the way, it would still make more sense than dealing with people pushing and shoving and some crazy asshole backing down the up ramp.
In the past few years, the attitude of the American public has gotten to where half of them are crazy and will kill you just as soon as look at you (“Bish don’t tell me to wear a mask! BANG BANG MOTHERF*****R!”) and the other half ready to stick a gun in their own mouth so they don’t have to deal with another shift at the McDonalds. (“Bish, don’t tell me to wear a mask!” *SMACK SMACK SMACK goes the COVID plexiglass on the minimum wage worker’s head!*)
The COVID masks are gone but the attitude is still there. “Don’t talk to me, or else!”.
Could you imagine having to work for minimum wage, getting your hours cut, and then deal with a public of crazies and idiots ready to go off on you, along with a stupid boss that knows less than you do, and an HR department that is cutting hours because they don’t want to say layoff?
That’s what these people go through. That’s why I never give service workers crap. Whatever you think they’ve done, be nice to them. Someone else will be so mean that they’ll have to deal with too much anyway.