I ****ed up and forgot to make my tea kettle heated, French pressed Sumatran, fully bodied, freshly hand ground by a hand made Turkish bean grinder, coffee, so I had to settle for poverty gas station coffee on my road trip this morning. I know, you're asking 'but how can it get any worse than that!?'. Believe me, it does. I procured my embarrassingly weak and stale coffee in a styrofoam cup that transferred heat to my hand in an uncomfortable amount. As I approach the counter, I'm literally blinded by a highly visible, reflective vest that had sunshine cascading off of it in a supernova of brightness. I can't make all the details due to the blinding light, but I can see this vest clearly belongs to a tradie that was wearing dirty jeans and 2 inch boots to make him feel like he's 6' instead of 5'10". On the counter in front of this height frauding tradie was a can of Red Bull and a Slim Jim. After an annoyingly long time of fumbling through his wallet, he pulls out a credit card to pay for his Red Bull. Then, he quietly mumbles an inaudible line of dialogue to the cashier. A brief moment later, I realize he's directing the cashier to pull a specific lottery ticket from the case. She tries to upsell an add on for the lottery ticket. The tradie didn't understand the concept of the add on, so he asked her to explain it. After some quiet mumbling, the tradie flicks his wrist in an apparent response of 'no'. Back to his wallet he goes. Fumbling awkwardly like an awkward virgin trying to find the hole, he finally pulls out another card. To my surprise, this was a debit card. I didn't know tradies had liquid cash; I assumed they spent it all on SKOL chew, menthol cigarettes, and Godron's (in the plastic bottle) vodka. I hear him explain to the cashier that you have to pay with a debit card for lottery transactions. This whole ordeal took 8 minutes. That's 8 minutes taken away from my 10/k/day CEO position.

Cliffs:

Tradie in a blindingly bright high visibility vest
Tradie height frauding in 2" work boots
Tradie buying Red Bull
Tradie buying slim jims
Tradie buying lottery tickets
Tradie paying for Red Bull and slim Jims with credit
Tradie paying for tickets with debit

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