student? O_o

*ahem*

I walked forth into Sawall for some oh so wonderful, MARVELOUS organic foodstuffs. (naan) ...The service there is usually, actually ALWAYS wonderful! I get a bright smiley face, that immediately recognizes me for the unmistakable "student" that I am and thereby get a 10% discount on all my organilicious goods. *savors new wordage*

ALAS! Twere the eve of today and in joyous beeps of cashier glory an ugly stare bore into mine and demanded a student ID!!!! OMG. SERIOUSLY? Let me emphasize the seriousness of the seriosity:

1. It's 50 below zero degrees outside
2. I'm on my way home from an EXHAUSTING day of work
3. I look like a nerd
4. Correction...I look like a 2 year old!
5. And sound like one too!
6. Namely, I am THE ETERNAL STUDENT!!!!!
7. CAN THIS MOFO NOT TELL???!!!
8. Did 4 years with 3 degrees not earn me THAT much?
9. Where have all eternal student rights gone?!
10. Even despite me giving her the "you're S***ing me right?" look...she said, quite rudely, "i need your id."
11. I RAN 5 minutes in the cold to my car, buried in the midst of 74,973,892,359 billion other cars in the cold, and almost slipped on the way there and back!
12. When I got back, she asked for my credit card, WHICH SHE ALREADY TOOK FROM ME BEFORE!!!!!
13. whodda hell
14. Where am I going with this numbering thing?

I suppose the above is a well organized (?) outline of my argument. I was poopered, and flustering with anger, completely bamboozled that the one location that had in my imagination remained pure of all such commercial-rule evilty was forever gone. Before, back when I was "young" and apparently still a "student" *cringes* Sawall didn't even have a place for their shopping carts. Heck! They didn't even HAVE shopping carts! They had BASKETS! You had to work hard for organic food! This time, they had 50,429,374,289 trillion shopping carts aligned in these commercially consumer-popular cart holders, and there were 90% more Sawall people (Sawallese?) lurking around pretending to wholesomely enrich the shelves.

All of it..the purity of untainted commercialism..is now forever gone!

*poof* :( *flails*

I hate when life gets real. But thus it is. And it is thus.