Creep Store

Have you ever been at the grocery store, just doing your shopping as usual, and suddenly noticed that there seems to be a lot of creepy people shopping that day? That guy who sort of lurches around and looks funny at everyone. That elderly gentleman who's clearly not entirely there. That middle-aged woman who's wrinkled beyond her age with a smoker's cough and a basket full of nothing but cheap beer. And that's when your mind starts wandering.

It's the same store you've always shopped in but suddenly, you begin to wonder if this is a creep store. A store where only creepy people go to shop. Maybe you're a creep—you sure don't feel like one, but the creepiest people rarely realize that they are. Or worse, you're not, but have just been too inept to notice before and have been going to this store for years like an idiot.

Actually now that you think about it, some of the prices here seem kind of high. Surely no sane person would go shop here, where everything's so expensive. Why did you never think of that before? Then again that other item is cheaper than elsewhere, so maybe you are an island of sanity in a sea of creepy people after all. But it sure doesn't always feel that way, does it?

Or am I just crazy?

Comments

1
Mom On September 14 2007 (September 14 2007 01:21)

Maybe it is because you nowdays are looking with different eyes? You are not creepy! Belive me... I know! :)

2
Elver On September 14 2007 (September 14 2007 01:22)

I've been awake for a rather long time now and this post reads the way, I think, it should.

Anyway. What if you're one of them? One of the creeps?

3
jolle On September 14 2007 (September 14 2007 07:30)

- The guy who looks funny at everyone, he's the guy who has the same thought you do, and he think you looks funny at everyone.

- I'd be interested in what time of the day this was. Because the people shopping usually depends on it. Like, there's the old folks in the morning, the 'I just got off from work'-folks at 17 or 18, and so on. Maybe there's a time when the creeps shops.

- I also approve of the kind and style of this entry.

4
Peter C O Johansson On September 14 2007 (September 14 2007 17:30)

> I'd be interested in what time of the day this was.

I think it was about 8 in the evening.

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