I just had a wonderful moment at Safeway

I went to get a cup of coffee at Safeway...it was about 11 am.
Drinking coffee in the tub first thing in the morning is my favorite way to sit and conjure what my day will become.
I walked into the Safeway after braving the bright ass sun light in my face.
Sunlight bugs me somthin fierce sometimes I wish I had a welding helmet just to get to where the overpriced coffee lives.
For some reason I always walk right passed the coffee maker we have here at the Kalisti castle to buy a 20 oz. cup from Safeway Starbucks.
For sure I go to the Starbucks because my friends work there and the local coffee shop is owned by kind of a crummy person who I'm not so inspired to give ANY money to. It's too bad...I really LOVE shopping local.
I guess I need a human to hand me my coffee rather than the coffee maker at home for me to really enjoy it.
Safeway was crowded...I walked up to the elevator all groggy eyed, I wasn't ready to run up stairs. As I stood there an elderly woman walked by me with a spring in her step...she looked at me and the elevator and laughed as if to say "This chump won't last long at that rate" she bopped up the stairs like a champ.
Then a Dad with a little girl came up to the elevator...we looked at each other uncomfortably, it was taking forever for the doors to open and more folks were lining up to get in the elevator.
Coffee called me from above and I just ran up the frikking stairs.
At the top floor; my eyes filled with what could only be called "Bustle" lots of folks at Safeway during the 11 oclock hour.
The store had just installed U check machines and the employees were learning how to use them.
Lines were long as they always are at this time and everyone seemed to have someplace to go in a hurry.
This is the chaos I enjoy most...I didn't have to be anywhere so I could just stand in the coffee line and take it all in.
Two other people I noticed also didn't have any pressing plans and these two may have just "Made" my day.
Y'See while a Mom was arguing coupons at the check stand she had told her little boy and girl to sit at a table and play with their new toys...two plastic harmonicas!
From where I was at the coffee line I could see her hand them the harmonicas, point to a table and then the dumb-ass turned around like they would do as she instructed...do you think they did?
HELL NO they didn't sit down as she asked and play with the harmonicas, they ran around everywhere in circles like wild donkeys. The two cuties were marching between people's feet, grabbin stuff and all the while blowin the shit out of those things.
I was cracking up and I hoped my line wasn't moving along too fast.
They didn't have a song for us...it was just breathing the same in and out note over and over ad-nausium.
The whole room was buzzing with activity and commerce and on top of the whole scene was the the sound of the twin dis-chord-ant, cacophonous, mobile, raging, laughing children with harmonicas. I saw many eyes roll and many people squinting to concentrate on the business they had at hand.
I imagine everyone (but me and the one checker that works there who truly doesn't give a shit) were trying to tune out the horrible noise.
The checkers were stressed, the coffee folks were pumping coffee and yelling orders, people were lost, old folks looking for non existent bathroom keys, the scene was so lovely to me since I was just a tourist for this one.
The only thing that could have made it complete would be a shoplifter being chased out with a full cart of soda (it happened) or a store wide black out.
I'm glad that never happened because that would have really delayed my coffee.
Usually it's normal people looking at me and pointing...this one is a show for me YIPPEE!
Thanks Chaos Clown KIDS!
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