an awkward encounter with an annoying family

I ran into some annoying people today. I was on my way to Starbucks to finish off my gift certificate with a talle breve single toffee nut frap with whip (of course). I had just gotten out of my car when I discovered a family with some their friends standing on the side walk having a good time. When I walked by them I glanced to observe whatever festivities may have been taking place. Apparently, they had found a homeless man's signs (the ones he had been using for begging). The homeless man wasn't there, but had probably went inside to go to the bathroom or to get warm, but had left his sings outside. Well, this family thought it was so funny to pick up the signs read them and even hold the sign in front of themselves pretending that they were begging. Ha ha ha, what? I was a bit disturbed by the whole sight and pointed out that the signs belonged to someone who actually used them for begging and that he probably didn't want people play with them. To which they responed, "well we weren't going to mess them up! Why don't you get over yourself!" I was mad. I had never seen such disturbing scene in my life. How terrible that they were making a joke out of poverty. After our little incident, I went in for my drink just to have them standing right behind me in line for theirs. How awkward.

My festive wound

I've been getting a lot of free stuff lately...well...trying to get free stuff. See, I don't consider myself a wealthy man. I don't get to spend money very freely right now, so I've been scheming a different way to get things besides paying for them. No, I'm not stealing things. I am not a pick-pocket like Matt Damon in Ocean's 11, although his stealthy abilities inspire me in a non-criminal sort of way. Anyway, I've tried a few different things like enrolling in a few rewards programs which have kind of backfired on me. I spend a lot of our church's money (which is really fun) so I enrolled in a rewards program with my check card except I have to spend like 4 whole dollars just to get one stinking point to spend toward my prestigious reward. Bollucks, that'll take forever. I want a 10 dollor gift card to Best Buy now!

So, my engenious free-stuff schemes (with the exception of a few free trial offers I signed up for for downloading music, which was awesome!) have flopped leaving me in a state of free stuff dispair. To make myself feel better, I went to starbucks today to get a drink and grab one of their free songs they have on their counter. Mystery Zone by Spoon. Although I've never heard the song before, I'm sure it'll grow on me.