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Apparently, I suck. Who knew?

I just ran out to the grocery store, and was making small talk with the girl checking out the stuff. I always do. There were two people in line behind me, I didn't dawdle or hold anyone up (that I'm aware of.) As I was pushing the cart out through the slushy parking lot, the woman who was behind me in line ran by me, and yelled over her shoulder just before she got in her car, "You suck!" My reply, "Really? Could you tell me why?" No response, she got in her car, then sat there for more than the 5 minutes or so it took me to load my bags, shut the door, go retrieve a stray cart and take it and mine back up to the store. I can only imagine why it is that I suck.

Guess #1 - I took too long in line? I didn't let her go ahead? (my stuff was already on the belt when she got behind me.)

Guess #2 - In chatting with the checkout girl, I mentioned the front page of the paper - that Bernie Kerik has withdrawn his nomination as head of Homeland Security because he (allegedly) employed an illegal alien nanny while NYPD police chief. I wondered out loud why it is that some people believe themselves to be above the law, and if he DID employ an illegal, then Homeland Security is probably NOT an appropriate place for him.

Guess #3 - She's, uh, nuts? Maybe related to the woman who, when we first moved here took one look at my Ontario plates and started berating me because "All you people are coming in here, buying all our stuff." 'kaaaaaaay...

I dunno. It made me giggle though. This woman would appear to be what is referred to around here by some as a woodchuck. Woodchucks call the rest of us "flatlanders" and spit it when they say it like it's a curse word. She had a magnificent mullet, a cigarette tucked behind one ear. She got into the passenger side of a rust-bucket Pontiac with 3 WOKO bumper stickers. (WOKO is the local OLD-style country station) I only wish she had answered me so that I could know what it was that lead her to announce my suckitude with such surety. I guess I'll never know. Scott says he's offended for me, since I obviously suck so much I don't realize I *should* be offended.

:o) As I said, it did (and still does) make me giggle, and I suspect I will use my suck-iness as an excuse for all sorts of things in the next little while. Didn't get dinner ready on time? It's 'cause I suck. Can't be bothered to vaccuum? What can I say? I suck! I'm going to revel in my suckitude. What else can I do? I mean, I suck, right? ;o)