too many rats

there's too many rats in the maze. the grocery store in this part of town has six self-checkout registers. generally there are six people at the registers and two or three people waiting for a register. now for the most part this works pretty well. but occasionally there's a person who is in a big rush and they stand at the front of the line waiting for a register and fidgeting and rocking back and forth and acting irritated with the whole process. like it's everybody else's fault for existing. today there was one such person. this person happened to be waiting right next to the register that I was using. you could almost physically feel them pushing against you. but on this fateful day no amount of mental or spiritual pushing was going to move me one tiny little bit because the checkout register station was not working correctly. it said to me in a very pleasant female voice, help is on the way. well after standing and staring at it for about 20 seconds it simply went back to working correctly. there wasn't any problem in the first place.  after it went back to normal there wasn't any problem finishing the checkout. by this time the person haid rushed off to another register never to be seen again. but it was just another reminder that there are too many rats in the maze. we need to disperse into smaller mazes. we need to get out of these big giant mazes with millions of people kramden and get back to a simpler happier way of life.

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