I'm not sure what was with tongight. Honestly, (I'm realizing how often I use the word 'honestly'. lol. but it just fits) it was like there was some crazy circus going on outside and all of the performers were coming in for their coffee.
It all started with this little crazy lady. She kind of reminded me of the little hunched over witch that tricks the prince at the beginning of Beauty & The Beast. lol.
As I was making drinks she came up to the side and said, rather abruptly, "Can I have some water???" So I said sure, and then again, so abruptly said, "and almost no ice!" I couldn't hear her so she had to repeat it again. Anyway, finally I was pouring the water and I could just tell something wasn't all quite there with her or something. I'm not sure what it was but then all of a sudden she looked at me and said, "That chocolate um shake thing you just gave my daughter, well she drank it and now she passed out!"
I was like, um. "Sorry, excuse me, what did you say??" I couldn't believe or understand what she was saying. she said the same thing again and then took the cup of water from me, without even getting a lid and that was the last I saw of her. Yes, the thoughtful side of me wondered if in fact her daughter had actually passed out...not from the drink of course, cause that's just ridiculous...and I didn't ever remember seeing her or her daughter, who I didn't see anywhere, get a drink in the first place. Maybe she thought I would charge her for her water if she didn't come up with some crazy story about why she needed it so bad....Honestly, one of the weirdest conversations to date.
I'm not sure if that's what set the tone for the rest of the evening but ever since that moment I just saw the weirdest things and people. Not to sound judgemental and call people weird. I guess everyone is special in their own way. But seriously there was a lot of special people walking around tonight.
Like this elderly man who had this insanely long white beard who looked like a combination of Gandaulf (sp!?) the Great, Santa Clause, and Moses all in one. Although the bright red sweater made me lean toward to the Santa Clause description. It was such an intense beard!
And then only a few minutes before spotting him I saw this other guy with the thickest long black beard and a tiny goatee walking around. Not exactly the friendliest looking guy to say the least.
Anyway I could barely believe I was even seeing either of them, let alone two of them in the same store at the same time. And then it all got even crazier when I realized they must have come together, as they went to leave together at the same time! So bizaare.
Then there was this girl with this crazy long bunny hat, that had bunny ears that reached all the way down her back. Again, talk about a crazy circus! And the amount of people with oddly dyed hair colors I saw tonight. I kept feeling like "where I am!?" Have we like time travelled!?
After the bunny ears girl was a girl who, no offense, but her hair looked like that crazy witch lady from Pirates of The Carribean.. again, so bizaare.
Then I had a lady tell me how she's either really indecisive or knows exactly what she wants, like when she wakes up at three in the morning craving tomatoe triscuits. Yes, tomatoe triscuits. Odd.
The list of tonight is seemingly endless.. cause then when we asked a lady if she wanted room for cream in her coffee she said 'what's that?' and we were like 'y'know like half & half..."
*blank stare*
and us again, "y'know like milk?"
*Odd blank stare*
Eventually she said she didn't need any room.
Lol.
And finally the one story that half made me laugh half just made me upset. This younger girl, we'll say like 24ish was buying drinks for her and her boyfriend when she decided to also add a bottled water to her purchase, which caused the price to rise by almost $3.
She said, "Boy, that's expensive water."
And I agreed with her, but said "yeah, it's a bit pricy but if it makes you feel any better part of the money goes to help build wells for kids in Africa." and all she said in a monotone voice was. "Nope." !!!! I couldn't believe that.
Ellie and I agreed, if you actually think that, at least don't say it out loud! Like you don't care at all if children get clean water! Seriously! I was not happy with her to say the least.
Anyway so that was my ridiculous circus of a night. It just didn't stop and I kept wanting to say, "Guys, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
