I was standing in line at Wal-Mart this morning, waiting behind a young black couple who had their cart piled high with food.

As they unloaded it, the woman of the couple would stop the cashier and ask how much the subtotal was.  As the subtotal crept higher and higher, the woman would rummage around the things left in the cart, have a few of them rung up and again ask "how much we got now?". 

After about 15 mins of this palava and with a bunch of frozen foods left in the cart she finally said "ok, that's it,  We can't git no mo", paid for her purchases and her and her man left....leaving the cart of rapidly defrosting food stuff at the end of the register belt, in the way of the next person in line (me).

How fucking ignorant is that?! To not only hold up everyone else in line for 20 minutes with your bullshit picking around, but to leave food defrosting like that and just walk away?  Why can't you do what everyone else does and add stuff up (either in your head or on a calculator) as you're grabbing it off the shelves?  That's what I did when we were broke and had a limited amount to buy food with.  We went and got the essentials first, keeping a running total, and then if we had money left over at the end of it we got 'luxuries'.  We didn't just pile shit in the cart and worry about how we were going to pay for it at the damn register!

The mentality (or lack thereof) of some people just amazes me.  Is it any wonder we've got so many people flat broke and filing for bankruptcy if this is any example of how they manage their money?