I have a great talent for picking the worst cashier line to get in while shopping. It doesn’t matter if the cashier I pick has no people waiting in line, is almost guaranteed that the other shoppers will check out before me.

Yesterday I was buying some groceries and all the lines had at least three people waiting except for one, which had a single person. Naturally I got in that line. This particular time I got a double-whammy with a bonus. The lady pulls out her checkbook to pay for her food, and doesn’t pre-fill out any of it until she gets the total. Sheesh. The second whammy was when the cash register had to be refilled with paper. Meanwhile the other lines were just cruising! The bonus was that my cashier was chatting non-stop to the baggers (there were three of them just standing around) and to make matters worse, they were blathering on about some stupid end-of-the-world theory.

These days I don’t really get too peeved at my bad fortune in line. I am just amazed at how fate can create new and original ways for me to waste my time in line.