Kind of a funny story from today.
I've got a Starbucks near my house that I visit once a week that sometimes has promotional events. Really stupid shit like the logo printed on some cheap as hell plastic water bottle made in some toxic factory for 3 cents a piece. I don't remember people being this sheeplike and hysterical in the US over this kind of thing, but in Japan, people will line up outside before the store opens so they can run in and buy this stupid shit. All I want is my coffee. So this morning I have to get into the line because it was one of those promo days. In front of me was some delicate little J-cow and her squealing toadlers she was just letting run all over the place. She kept leaving the line to collect the beasts once they'd have crossed the entire plaza and were ready to run into the street, and I was so tempted to just move right on up and make the cunt get her and her kids asses to the back of the line. There were probably 15 people in front of us.
The doors open, and everyone floods in. I take my usual table, which happens to be right near the display shelf where all the cheap shit is carefully set up. Usually this kind of thing is relatively under control. Japanese folks tend to be pretty good about waiting in line, even when mobbing a sale event. Moo-moo jumps into the fray with her stupid kids, ambling all over the place, underfoot. Then it happens. A couple of tourists start grabbing as many pieces of the cheap junk as they can, while yelling and shoving. This starts a chain reaction of everyone else starting to grab and hoard whatever they can. An adult woman was knocked back into a chair by one of these idiots. As I'm watching the clusterfuck in progress while getting ready to try to order my coffee, I notice one of this cunt's stupid shit kids is right in the center of the chaos. It's shrieking. Selfish cow-bitch conveniently happened to remember her kids whilst participating in the shoving match, and feebly calls out, "Peeeeee-chaaaan! Peeeeee-chaaaaan!" (or whatever the fuck its name was)....as if that was just going to magically bring the kid out from under what was ready to become a dogpile. She made no effort to get in there and rescue her child, who could easily have been trampled in this mini-riot. Impressive, isn't it? What mama bear will do for her little cub when a cheap plastic Starbucks cup is on the line.
After a few minutes - and she's VERY lucky it didn't escalate from there - things calmed down. I got in line to order, and the same little shit that had been stuck in the clusterfuck waddled over, tripped over my foot as I was standing there, and fell on its face. I looked at it wanting to laugh, then ordered my coffee without further incident.
The whole event was about as pathetic as it gets, and the antics of the selfish moo were the icing on the cake.
Just thought this might give some of you a giggle.