I truly hate shopping.  I loathe and despise it.  I'd rather be pecked to death by chickens than go shopping.  Today is a nice rainy day, so I thought to myself, there won't be anyone out.  I'll go to Hastings because I had a list of books that I wanted.  Out of 16 books they had ONE...yes one.  ONE BOOK OUT OF 16.  And it isn't like these books were published in 1885 and have never been published since then.  Alice in Wonderland for crap's sake.  WTF???  ONE FREAKING BOOK.  I'm furious.

THEN, I get to the checkout line.  This is the main reason I hate shopping.  I was about 10th in line.  One register open.  Apparently the nice rain hadn't kept people away like I thought, or all the morons in line thought the same thing I (the moron) did.  After about 15-20 minutes I was finally 3rd in line and the stupid hussie at the check out decided to inspect every single CD and/or DVD she was purchasing/renting.  There were about 10 of them.  Apparently some of them were scratched so she made the clerk clean them or something...I don't know...the clerk put them into a machine and said lady in line was happy again.  Her total?  I don't know, but she decided she could pay the change in PENNIES.  $99.99...oh, here I have a one hundred dollar bill, but let me get the 99 cents in PENNIES.  Oh dear, I only have 86 pennies.  Friend, she says to her friend standing next to her, do you have any change?  SO FRIEND STARTS DIGGING THROUGH HER PURSE FOR CHANGE.  Then it is finally my turn at the register.  Does she ask me how I'm doing?  Did I find everything I was looking for?  Am I having a nice day?  NO.  She says nothing.  Not one word.  I had stopped going into Hastings because of their shitty service, but the rain made me wistful for books.  I won't be going back again.

So now, I have to search through half.com and get all my books that way because for some reason, I can't get them at the library.  When I try to ILL a book, 90% of the time I'm told no.  Can someone explain this to me?  Why can't I actually borrow books from the library????

On a similar note, I went to Taco Villa for lunch a few weeks ago.  My total was $4.  I paid with a $10.  My change should have been $6.  They gave me my food and my change.  I counted the change.  She had handed me back my $6 along with my $10.  I waited patiently at the window for someone to open it so I could give them their stupid $10 back.  Waited...waited...waited...finally I knocked.  I told the girl that opened the window they gave me too much change back as I handed her the $10 bill.  She actually verbally huffed sighed me and then SLAMMED THE WINDOW CLOSED.  No thank you, no nothing.

I give up.

I STILL DON'T HAVE MY PHRACKING BOOK!