Some People

I started playing the McDonald's Monopoly game. I play every time they have it just about...I've never won big and I don't even think I come close really, but at the very least it's a good excuse when I'm in the mood to eat poorly..."but hey we'll get game pieces...so let's go anyways..."


(Truthfully, McDonald's games were always a fun pasttime of mine. In highschool, I was a teacher's aide first period and she was fairly relaxed about attendance...soooo every Monday morning was Bingo at the local McDonalds. I'd skip my first period and go play McDonalds Bingo. I'd always win lots of food coupons for free food...and when you're in highschool, free food is always a plus. I also won pens and mugs and other random items that they were giving away...not to forget all the social skills I was working on. It was a great adventure and then I'd head to school and start my day off having won free food for later and having stuffed myself full of an endless cup of soda. The only real downfall was that my mother never understood why all the old people in town knew me and why we got so many "strangers" waving to us. I think at the time I just told her they were just being extra friendly people. "C'mon mom, why can't people just be friendlyyyyyyy? Do they really have to have a reason to wave?" --She's all the wiser now and she still loves me.)


Anyways, so the Monopoly game is back on again and I'm seeking out tickets because someday I think I'm going to win and I'm going to win big! (Just let me say that-I say it every time.)


I won a free breakfast sandwich, so that gave me reason to take the little one there this morning and cash in my prize ticket.




Copyright Insanity Infusion


But before I sat down to enjoy this, I really needed to use the washroom.


Strollers are a pain to maneuver through doorways. Especially if you have one of the big heavy travel combo deals like I have. So with my body propping open the bathroom door, my hands are trying to pull the stroller through the door frame without getting the wheels hung up on anything which would undoubtedly slow me down even moreso.


As I'm standing there fiddling and finaggling my way in, a woman approaches behing the stroller who wants in the bathroom.


An older crotchety woman.


She gives me this look of "moveitorIlleatyoubecauseIhaventhadmycoffeeyetandIhavetopee" look. And then proceeds to push my stroller, that has my daughter in it, out of her way and through the door.


Not taking my hand off the stroller, I just look at the woman. I was taken aback by the nerve she had of moving my daughter out of her way when I was very well in the middle of doing that and doing a fine job at it too.


In this bathroom there are two stalls. One regular small stall and then one large stall handicap accessible.


I look at the woman and say as I point to the small stall, "So, if you want to take that stall, I'll take the big one if no one's in it."


"Oh? Well, is someone in it?" and then she walks over to the large stall door and knocks.


No answer.


So the woman opens the door and walks in. She walks.in.to.the.big.stall.


So I continue, "orrrr I guess I'll wait until you're done and THEN I'll use the stall."


She stops in her tracks. "Oh, you're going to use this one?"


No lady, I was planning on leaving the stroller and unhooking my daughter and taking off her bazillion layers of clothing because it was cold outside when we left the house and there's no way she'd fit inside the small stall unless I took off all her layers not with me in the stall as well not to mention managing to hold her while I used the facility at the same time.


But instead I say, "Well, yeah I HAD planned on it since I DID need to bring the stroller with me..."


The woman replies, "Fine. I'll use this one."


And she walks to the regular sized stall and slams the door.


Some people are so strange.