The worst thing..

I ever did:

It was 2000 and I was at the hospital waiting for my wife to give birth to my son. I hate hospitals.

I'm down in the cafeteria getting a cup of coffee, trying not to lose my mind.

I wanted to bolt right out of that place and never look back.


The cashier is an older woman who doesn't seem to like her job.

She doesn't like people.

She doesn't like me.



I hand her a twenty dollar bill. She starts complaining about it. How people never have small bills. How she's running out of change. She hands me a bunch of bills back.


I hand her a one dollar bill.

"here, buy yourself a better attitude," I say with a chill in my voice.


I walk away.

She goes ballistic.

I calmly fix my coffee.

"Who do you think you are treating me like that?!?"



It's a valid question but the answer is simple enough: a grown man trapped in a place he doesn't want to be.


The dollar is on the floor now. Another woman says “you dropped this sir”

“You keep it.”

I walk away like it never happened.

Whoever you are, sorry lady.