Blue Warrior needs beer badly

One of the only disadvantages to my current assignment at work is that the site I'm at has no cafeteria. Oh there's an eating area with machines with food in them but there isn't a staffed 'will make you stuff while you wait' sort of cafeteria like I'm used to having access to. There are places in the area outside of work to get food from but I don't like leaving work on a regular basis to do that. I'm on call. Sometimes I'm the only one around and can't leave in good conscious. On those days that I haven't planned well or just plain forgotten, sometimes you have to look in the machine, at the wheel of death, and think 'which sandwich seems the least poisonous today?'

That happened today. In an effort to be less lazy, I decided to stop on my way home and get something lunch-like for the next few days. I also needed beer. This greatly assisted in the decision making process.

I generally go food shopping at odd hours so being in a grocery store at 16:30 was a bit weird, mostly for the fact that there were people in there, people that were in my way. The other side effect was that the lane in the liquor section was an express lane, a fact I really didn't notice until the register lady pointed it out to me. She could have told me straight-away and sent me to the main section of lanes and I would have gone without a fuss. In fact I probably would have apologized for blocking the lane. Instead, she informed me of this halfway through ringing me up. At which point I failed to see the reasoning for the information. Unless she was going to stop checking me out at 15 items, what difference did it make? I apologized and noted I hadn't really seen the sign on the wall (I had noticed it but not really acknowledged it as I was watching her strange manner in bagging items and dealing with the customers ahead of me). She finished checking me out and didn't prevent me from buying anything so it was just a weird moment.

Lunch will be important tomorrow. Right now I have my Sprecher Abbey Triple beer. This makes me happy.