This town is driving me nuts!

The people are rude.

The drivers are rude.

Everyone is out to fuck up my day!

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On Saturday morning, I went to 99 Ranch Market to pick up my mom. Needless to say, I got the usual shopping cart bashing from women who pretend you're invisible. If I were a cop, I think the most hit and runs would take place in a Chinese supermarket. Imagine meeting all your quota in one place. And then there are those crowds hovering over the tables with the sample foods to try. I mean, they're not giving out a whole roast pork! They are only giving you a minuscule wedge of a cocoa wafer. Or maybe a tiny gulp of YooGloo. And you can't even get by that crowd without wanting to throw a Molotov cocktail in their midst to disperse them. Then we have the folks at the veggie department who monitor what you buy. When you choose an eggplant and you put it down, someone snatches it up because they think you got the better one initially. People, let's be peaceful about vegetables. Please!

But the real action...

...is outside in the parking lot. Because you know how they drive.

How many times have you seen someone just let go of their cart and it gets sent flying into a Lexus? Or what always happens to me is that they park their empty shopping cart right next to your driver's side door. Tell me, what is the meaning of this? Is it too hard to walk another 30 steps to put the cart into its rightful depository location?

But on this particular Saturday, as I was heading out parking lot, this black 4 door Honda Civic turns into the parking lot and crosses over all lines of the equator and nearly misses my car by inches! So I throw up my arms and gestured like "what the hell?" Please note that no middle finger usage were enacted.

And you know what the bastard does? He had the balls to pull up alongside my car and rolls down his windows and in his oh-so-choppy accent yells at me, "WHAT?? WHAT??"

Ha! As if I'M the one at fault now?? Does this all stem back to how old Chinese folks never admit their faults or their wrongdoing? Especially men? I mean, he obviously turned horribly into the parking lot and completely into my lane. If I was going a lil faster, I would have been hit for sure! And now he's pretending like it's MY FAULT?

Seeing his fit of anger and hearing his valiant try at English made me laugh and in his face, I did just that and drove off with a wave. Of course secretly, I would have gone back to kick his sorry ass or key his car (my personal fave) if my mom wasn't in the car. :)

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Why I keep on going back to Tea Station? I don't know. They have the worst service and in particular it's the girls. Mind you, it's not ALL the girls but certain ones that just think they are sitting on this boba pedestal. I haven't been there in awhile but we were all thirsty one day after going to Fry's so we headed there for some to-go drinks.

I swear, I don't know how much more safe I could be by bringing a native Mandarin speaker with me to order drinks. If they were all giving me a'tude because I'm a non native Mandarin speaker, then they shouldn't to one who speaks their tongue. :P Boy, I'm so wrong. They just unleash their fucking claws to everyone.

So we order 4 drinks in total. Two of them without boba and since I had a card for a free drink, the pathetic catty milk tea girl had to do some math in her head. I'm sure it made her brain explode. So she rolled her eyes at us as if we were causing her too much trouble and I'm sure overly extending what little brainpower she had.

Then we told her we need boba in one of the Snow Ice drinks and that made her job real difficult by having to add another 50 cents on. It's not like she doesn't have a calculator in front of her. And why do these girls get employed anyway in a Customer Service industry if they hate interacting with customers so much? Why not go lay down and spread your legs and fake some muffled groans? You'll earn more with less work! And it's still Customer Service related!

But if I could capture that bitch's face for all of you to see, you'd know what I mean. No smile. No thank you. No cheerfulness of any sort to welcome the customer. No common courtesy of the sort to be labeled a worker in the "Customers Come First" field. Maybe she just hates wearing that lil handkerchief over her head or maybe it's that lame apron they have to swaddle themselves in. I don't know and I don't care. Just why do people have to be such a bitch when the customer has never done anything to you?

Maybe if I had a dick, she would smile for me.

I'm out.