Crazy Safeway women

Well, I was due for a crazy person incident, wasn't I? I mean, it's been a long, long time since anything really weird has happened to me.

So there we were at Safeway, waiting in line to buy a roasted chicken for dinner when my husband pointed out an old lady at the customer service counter. He said she was saying some crazy things. I couldn't hear anything, but there were several people laughing at her.

A few minutes later, the old lady walked away from the counter with a piece of paper. She was reading it out loud. Another lady, who I realized was her "helper," took the paper from her and started to read it. The old lady then freaked out and started yelling at the helper lady, telling her that she could read, give it back to her, and that the helper lady wasn't trustworthy.

Everyone, including myself, stopped and watched. The helper lady gave her back the paper, but didn't say anything. The old lady then started going off about how someone was cheating her.

This was when it went bad. Instead of making eye contact, like I usually end up doing even though I don't mean to, I started to laugh. And I wasn't the only one. But for some reason, the old lady pinpointed me and started yelling about how I was laughing at her. I looked at her because I couldn't believe she was picking me out of all the people there, but she was. Luckily we were pretty far away from her at this point.

We were next to be rung up, so I moved on the other side of my husband, and leaned against the railing. The old lady was yelling some more about something, and I turned to look at her, and she caught my stare, and walked up to me.

"Let me tell you something! A word of advice!!!" she yelled at me.

I patiently waited for her to tell me what she had to say, while the helper lady mouthed that she was senile. My husband paused because he wasn't sure what the lady was going to do to me (and hey, I am carrying his child).

The lady pointed towards my husband and said, "Watch out because they will always cheat you!!!!" I realized then that she wasn't really pointing at my husband, but at the Safeway cashier. "They are very very very.......trustless!!!!!"

I told her I understood and she was right. She gave me one last stare, judging whether I was being serious or not, I guess, and then turned back to her cart and the helper lady.

The helper lady tried steering the cart towards the back of the registers, with the old lady yelling at her from behind.

Then the old lady yelled, "Give it back to me, FATTY!" really loud and everyone broke out laughing again. The helper lady was rather large.

The man behind my husband was older as well, and he muttered, "this is what I have to look forward to?"

While it was funny, it was also very sad. And it was the first time since I was attacked by the BART lady that I thought I was going to get it again, but at least my husband was there to knock the old lady down and then probably be taken to jail for knocking the old lady down.

I've given my husband permission to shoot me in the head if I end up like that.