queues

What is it about standing in queues that stresses a person out?
Just the thought of going to Constantia Village Pick n Pay makes me let out an exasperated sigh.
There are never more than 3 tills open and the cashier has been dead about 3 weeks with as much enthusiasm as a cement paver. If you hate your job, then DONT do it......
You are only making yourself more miserable and the people you are supposed to be serving, by taking longer than you need to and making them impatient.
And what is with these people that wait until all their groceries has been rung up to now decide to look for their money/debit card. Seriously.......
You knew when you set off on your journey you would have to PAY for the groceries. There is no magical check-out faery that is going to magically appear and say "surprise!! this shop is for free!!"
That ISNT going to happen, so keep your wallet handy and don't bury it at the bottom of your carry-on luggage that you call a handbag.

Next is the managers of stores........
When you see there are queues going DOWN THE ISLES, I think its time to open more tills!
3 tills open at month end is NOT appropriate, I mean seriously. Pick n Pay @ Canal Walk has about 20 tills but I've only ever seen maybe 7 tills open. What is the point of all those vacant tills? Illusions of grandeur much??

Oh oh oh ..... Parking Pay Points
How many times do you get stuck behind someone who puts the ticket in, then is 'surprised' they have to pay for parking. They must be the same people in the Shops thinking the groceries faery is going to appear.... now they are hoping for the parking pay point faery!!!
Then they need to pay R8.00....... well now we first need to FIND our hand bag in the trolley. 1 hour later the hand luggage is located, now for the Gucci purse.... mind we don't chip a nail opening the coin zip.... and what's that, oh dear you don't have coins.... standing there looking around in despair is not going to make coins rain out of the sky. We've already established there is NO groceries faery, and now we have found out there is NO parking pay point faery, so honey, there is NO Coin Faery going to make it rain some coins for your parking.
then out comes the note. Oh dear we only have R100.00. Again standing looking with despair is not going to change anything!!! Its at this point that I want to scream!! So then they decide to put the note into the machine after you point out that the machine does give change, that the note keeps on spitting out!!!! AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
I want to throw myself under the first trolley I see!!!
Have a bit of sense people!! You know you have to pay for parking EVERYWHERE, be PREPARED!!!!

Maybe I need to carry a hip flask in my handbag to keep me calm in our ever-growing-more-frustrating-queues!!!

Time

Time..........
Time is the one thing we never really have enough of, and so much of it is wasted and can never be replaced!
If you look at my posts... YEARS have passed since I have even considered posting on here!
I am guilty of wasting time, and there is nothing I can do to get that time back.
But instead of living in regret, its time to make up for the lost time by making the most of the time I have!!
We live such a pressured lifestyle, where we drive in horrific traffic to work, spend the day under pressure and get stressed out, then go back to sitting in traffic again. We are more angry, stressed and worried about where we will find the time to get everything done.
When you sit in traffic have you ever noticed that some people are sleeping while other people are raging because they have to be somewhere. In our hectic lives we need to find the time to do things that make us happy. We NEED more happiness in our lives.

I have started offroad mountain biking, and like scuba diving, I am thinking why have I not done this sooner!
I spend time outside, with some great people, having fun! (although my moaning may make you believe otherwise!!!!!)
But the most important thing is that I am spending time doing something that I can look back on and smile.
Too often we get stuck in mundane ruts and time flies by, and when you look back you can't say what you have done because its all just a blur of stressing and rushing and pressure.
We can never get that time back and there is nothing worse than regret.
I think, as a mission, we should attempt in doing at least one good thing a day that makes me smile and I can look back on and say that I didn't waste another day!
Look I don't mean I am going to go out and save the world, but we can try one step at a time!
Too many friends have been lost because we are too busy, too many hours are lost being furious in traffic, too many exaggerated sighs have been exhaled in shopping lines that never seem to move!
 
Lets take 1 minute to send that message to say: "Hello"
 
My weekends, I try and cram in everything possible, scuba diving, cycling, walking, visiting friends, and I tend to over do it, but I have created some epic memories!!

Time to stop wasting time, and time to start making some more treasured memories people!!