It's kinda amazing how quickly something can change. Like literally in an instant the situation can go from being one thing to being something completely different.
For example today.
After work I was meeting up with a friend at the store because I needed to check with a gift card that I had given them for their birthday.
Because I had discovered the evening after giving them their gift card and while preparing for a trip...that I had somehow ended up with a SECOND gift card in my bag of groceries...when I'd only bought one.
And I had no idea if the gift card that I had given to my friend was the one I had bought or the one that had stuck to the other when I hadn't realized it.
I'd tried checking the receipt to see but didn't see any indication of which one was the right one.
And with me going straight on vacation....we had to wait until I got back and our work schedules lined up enough that we both had time to meet up so that I could figure out which gift card was meant to be theirs.
And today was that day.
And I showed up at the store a little bit late because I had just gotten off work.
And had expected my friend to already to there waiting for me...but they'd been delayed as well.
And when I walked up to the Customer Service thing there was only two people in line.
Nice and short.
but my friend was going to be another 15ish minutes if rush hour was kind to them (it was not kind to them) and I kinda needed both gift cards to make it easier to figure out which one was the one that I had bought.
And it was kinda amazing how in the space of like...10 minutes the line went from having like 2 people in it...to having like 8 people in it.
To be honest it made me rather frustrated.
Like. If my friend had been there at the same time as me we would have only had two other people in front of us. But now I was looking at an ever growing line that seemed to have like 15 people now in it and just for seeing it becoming like a 30 minute ordeal just to wait in the line to be helped.
And considering I'd gotten off work right at dinner time....I was tired. I was hungry. And I was just a bit grumpy from work stuff. So to be made to wait longer and to see a long line forming when it could have been avoided.
Yah....I was rather frustrated.
Especially considering my friend ended up being like 30 minutes late.
But at the same time....it was kinda crazy....because by the time my friend showed up?
The line had vanished.
There was once again just two people in line before us.
So the wait wasn't long at all.
Like I've seen it happen a ton at my own job. Where there's like no one in line for the register and then suddenly you have a dozen people in line out of nowhere.
But it was crazy to see it happen in a different location.
And to have it be like....dead...and then 20 minutes of crazy...and then dead again.
Like my friend had no idea that the line had gotten so long it was heading out into the main part of the store out of the customer service area.....
Only I had known because I was there standing nearby watching the line grow.
Only I was aware how it had gone from 2 people up to like 12 people and back to 2 people in like 30 minutes.
It's crazy.
Crazy how quickly things can change.
And how you have no idea what could have just occurred right before you showed up or right after you left.
Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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