Scenes from my Real Life

[jack_babalon]

Drove to the dry-cleaners and the Publix right around the block. Normally a fifteen minute trip tops. However since it's rush-hour on a Valentine's Day, the majority of the commuting public were fully committed to their participation in Operation: Enduring Retard. Outside the parking lot was 'a white line nightmare' with the frantic, the desperate and the walking comatose battling for a handful of parking spaces. Inside, man proved to be a wolf upon man, especially when the prize is a half-wilted supermarket rose, a last minute dollar box of chocolates and a six pack to numb the damage. Welcome to the Fall of Rome, only the barbarians are fat, frazzled and armed with cell phones to express their atavistic rage.