Oh The Holidays...

Everyone ready for the holidays? I'm more than 3/4s done with shopping so there is hope for Christmas at my house.

So I was in a store. The last store of my search for a really simple item, a basic item, that suddenly no one has. And I was somewhat pissy because I should have just bought the substitute item at the FIRST FREAKING STORE when I had in my hand, but I decided to take a tour of the world to find the other item.

Idiot. I always do this.

Anyway, as much as I am an idiot, I don't do this: All of a sudden I heard a loud voice talking. I'm talking trailer trash loud, the kind of loud you see on the show Cops when they go to a domestic dispute. LOUD. I knew instantly it was a woman on her cell phone. She's yelling stuff like, "HOW THE HELL ARE YOU! I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVEN'T TALKED TO YOU! NO SH*T?" Then she went on to say "BULLSH*T" three times so fast I was actually impressed.

Then she cackled and the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

It was so loud I literally heard her from across the store. I followed the sound of her voice to find her in the Menswear department.

Trailor Trash from Central Casting. Bleached blond hair, gobs of blue eye shadow...and she was with her husband, or boyfriend, or whatever. She stood there SCREAMING into the phone. Then her partner leans over and says his howdy in a booming voice.

Everyone is staring at these two Yahoos. I just couldn't believe it. But of course, not one store employed asked them to have some manners or quit swearing like truck drivers on crack at the tops of their lungs.

Man, if my kids had been little and in that store, I'd have been super ticked. As it was, the writer in me was just weirdly fascinated.

What about you all? See any interesting things while shopping?