Procrastination

So yeah, I meant to write an entry on Friday, but now it's Monday. Pretty bad procrastination, eh? I was playing Minecraft the whole time. Kind of. Anyways, I have a problem of procrastination and that always gives me loads of stress, because I stress easily on a lot of stuff, so the combination of procrastination and easily stressing just sucks. But besides being uncapable of writing anything cohesive, the reason why I wanted to write an entry on Friday was because of something that happened at CVS.

So my friends and I were at CVS because we finished exams, and so we were walking around town waiting for the buses to come and take us home. So, we walked to CVS, walked in (it was uber cold, and this stranger guy, as we were heading towards the door, turned to us and said "You guys look f**kin' cold" or something--it was really awkward because we didn't know him at all, and he just cussed at us. Anyways), and started browsing the makeup aisles because it was closest to the door, and well, I'm a girl, and my friend is a girl, and my third friend was a guy stuck hanging out with two girls, so he had no choice =P. After poking about and squealing about Physician Formula's new products, we followed the aisle to the back, and giggled at a makeup display--someone put lotion or something on the cardboard so it looked like she was crying or something. Then, all of a sudden, a woman approached us and told us to leave our backpacks in the front of the store. I'm not going to lie; we all felt a bit offended.

This isn't to say we don't understand why she would ask this of us. After all, we're teenagers, in a small group, who was in the corner of the store, near merchandise that, I guess, is pricy? (Makeup can be expensive, I'll say) I completely understand the why of the whole situation. It just made us feel sort of discriminated against though, because you don't tell 63-year-old women, or a single mother of 37 years with her 5 year old boy to leave their purses/bags (and backpack if the boy has one) at the front of the store.

** I would like to note/point our here that a shoulder bag or purse would, if you think about it, be more ideal for stealing than a backpack. If you use a backpack, there's the whole taking off the backpack, unzipping, placing item in, etc, whereas a purse or shoulder bag you just lift the flap and put the object in. 

My saying that might make it seem very suspicious like I do steal, but I don't. For the purpose of full disclosure, my friends both had backpacks, and I had a messenger bag. 

***Reading back, I look sooooo guilty >_<

Anyways, after they told us that, we left. Then my girl friend and I waited for the guy we were with to finish buying chips or something, 'cause we were starving and we don't steal because stealing is wrong.

I don't think we would have been so offended if they told us once we walked into the store, but to come up to us in the middle of browsing and shopping doesn't sit well with me. I have valuables in my bag. How am I supposed to just leave my bag in the front of the store, where there was no designated safe area to put my bag, and expect my bag to lay there untouched? If I left my bag there, what's to stop another person from rifling through my stuff, or claiming my bag as theirs? I have valuables in my bag!  I had my Nintendo DS Lite, my wallet, my TI 84 Calculator (which costs $60 or so?), my cell phone, my pencil pouch, and my notes for AP Language & Composition as well as my AP BC Calculus notes. I don't want my possessions in anyone's hands other than mines (unless I give them permission :) )

I think one of the ways to hurt me to most is to not trust or believe me. That's just the way I am *shruggo*. I'm a pretty naive person, I guess, and I hold honesty and generosity above all as very important traits to have. I try and be the best "good" person I can strive to be, and every little thing can bug me, and actually, this whole striving thing is probably the reason behind my extreme stress (or so my mom says =P). So, yep. That was my Friday. I'm not saying what CVS did was wrong, or even bad. I just wish it could have happened differently. I really wanted to buy Peachy-O's or Peach Rings, or whatever they're called :(

I need to study for my AP BC Calc Semester Exam! D;
The Onion Cat

Don't steal! Stealing is morally wrong, and off the top of my head, I can't think of a single situation where stealing would be justified, and National Treasure doesn't count >_>; 

Also, ...I forgot.