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\"angry<\/a>I am standing two people back in line.<\/p>\n

I am watching with awe as the man in line goes through this transaction as though it is the first time he has ever purchased goods in a shop. He seems amazed when the cashier asks him for money, digs through his bag for a few long seconds until he finds his wallet. Then he digs through that for a few long seconds until he finds the money. Then he digs through the coin purse until he finds the right change.<\/p>\n

This kind of thing no longer surprises me, since it happens every single time I stand behind someone in line at a shop. For some reason, when Czech people buy goods in a shop, they appear surprised and confused to the point that it would suggest that they are actually aliens in borrowed human bodies.<\/p>\n

I have no idea why.<\/p>\n

All I know is that I hate this man.This is more my problem than his. Waiting is an activity I do with great strain. Sometimes I have to actively calm myself when a tram gets caught at a stoplight or in traffic. So when someone makes me wait, they are instantly on my shit list. In reality, this guy is probably “wasting” about 9 seconds of my time by his behavior. And no doubt if I were engaged in a conversation I wouldn’t even notice his aggravating checkout attitude.<\/p>\n

I would certainly never do anything like shout at him or make a comment. I just grumble in the satin-covered, Led-Zeppelin-playing Utopia that is my brain. Nevertheless, I hate him. Like with the white hot intensity of a million suns.<\/p>\n

The cashier is a podgy woman in her early fifties. And when she sees that I am in line she literally groans aloud and rolls her eyes. She does this every time she sees me. Exactly this. So I am not surprised, but it still gives me a moment of pause.<\/p>\n

I am not the most likeable person on the planet. Oh, I am OK. I generally greet people with a smile and a hello. But I know there are people out there who hate my living guts. And what’s more, I deserve it.<\/p>\n

But sometimes I evidently elicit the extreme hatred of a person I do not know. Specifically, this seems to be this cashier, a reception guard at the university, and a woman who sells fruit at the bottom of my hill.<\/p>\n

Now, I am OK with being hated if I deserve it, but I do wonder what I could have done to inspire such hatred from these people. I have had probably twenty interactions with the women selling things, and those have been all of one minute long, and I am sure I was pleasant. I am always pleasant to people selling me food.<\/p>\n

I have said dobr\u00fd den (good day) <\/em>to the security reception worker every day for the last six years, and I have been greeted in return with the cold stare of fetid death. I can’t imagine what I have done to deserve this. <\/span><\/p>\n

But who knows? Just as I hate waiting, maybe these three women hate something that I have subjected them to for the last six or seven years. Squeaky shoes. Bad Czech. Brown hair. Who knows? I guess what comes around goes around. <\/span><\/p>\n

And then it makes you wait in line.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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