LadyButterfly she/herEvery time...
gigastasioLet’s be honest. This is everywhere you go. Every morning, millions of people in your vicinity wake up, discover that their brain is broken, they no longer know left from right, can’t complete a sentence, forgot how to count to four, lost all concept of the physical space they occupy, and say to themselves, “Yes, today I shall go out and engage in commerce!”
jballsWhenever I’m driving and someone does something really stupid, I’ve started saying to myself “don’t be mad, cut them some slack, it’s clearly their first day driving.” I started saying it as a joke, but honestly it seems pretty accurate most of the time.
bleistift2I have a theory for why OWIHTP happens: Shopping is exhausting. Having to process all the products in the store, minding the shopping list, and what you’ve picked up already and what you need to pick up what isn’t on the list, deciding between alternatives and sometimes reorganizing big chunks of the list because what you wanted to get isn’t available – is immensely draining.
When you’re at checkout and don’t have anything to do mentally, you give the brain a rest it gladly accepts.