Pride vs. Rationality

Imagine finding out that a Hollywood Video store was closing down and all movies were must goes for $2-$3 (yes, even for the new ones!!) You're stoked, right? Me too! Well it happened to me. So after work I picked up my nephew from daycare and headed over. I walked into the store at approx. 4:45pm. People were all over the store grabbing movies left and right. I meandered around and picked out about 5 movies. Ryan picked out 2. We headed over to the line at about 5:10 ish. There were 5 groups of people ahead of us and three guys on registers. Cool! Shouldn't be too long now, right? Wrong. Let me just tell you now that I did not walk out of that store until 6:20. No-I'm not joking. Are you wondering what the heck I was thinking? Me too. Here's the thing: at some point (around 5:45 when I really, really wanted to walk out) I thought to myself-It's been too long.....I can't leave now! I've already wasted all this time, it'd be stupid to just walk out (Pride). When another part of me was like Why the heck are you going to waste one more second in this place! The workers suck and are slow and are messing around and the two people in front of you each have over 150 movies (seriously-they did!) and you should just leave now-you have other things to do! (Rationality). But these movies I'm holding in my hands are only $3!! Internal debate ongoing. I wanted to cry. Ryan-bless his heart-was being soooo good and so patient for a 5 year old. I let him get an ice cream which helped keep him calm. So for me-Pride won out and I did stay. What would you have done?

Here I am world!

And thus it began.

So, I decided-why should I deprive the world of me? I have things to say. People care about me. I'm cool. One could learn from my adventures. I'm capable of being a hero. And basically-no body's as Krazy as Karly!