Spent over half an hour on line at CVS yesterday to pick up medication

[conuly]

Unfortunately, we were all out, so I didn't have the option to come back in the morning.

The guy behind me would not stop whining about how "they need to open a new line" and "it's not moving, I don't know why they don't open a new line" and so on. Which, I get it, I do. I like to complain. I have, in fact, complained about this line now four separate times. But not to the same person over and over again!

And eventually I turned around and said, very carefully, "They can not open a new line because they'd need a new pharmacist. Which they don't have, so complaining doesn't make this line move any faster. All you're really doing here is irritating me". He got a bit pissy for a moment about not seeing how his incessant complaints irritated me, but then he did at least shut up.

And again - I really understand the urge to complain. I really do. What else am I doing here, after all, other than making my fourth complaint? But omg, if the other people in the same situation are not chiming in, just shut up already. You're not making things better, and you can complain just as well in your own mind as aloud!

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[conuly]

I do see how everybody commiserating over the same situation can be a group bonding thing, and even though you wouldn't consciously say "Ah, yes, let me group bond with these people on line at CVS" we're still a social species and we do these things.

But listen, cats are a social species too, and if my darling Callie attempts to bond with her mother by sniffing her face and gets ignored, she stops.