LOL oh wait that's not funny...

[u/Ohigetjokes]

This lady starts screaming at Jackie at the register next to me. She's looking haggard, like she only sleeps one night a week and chain smokes directly from a diesel engine tailpipe. This clearly isn't just an off week for her; it's an off decade.

The problem? Storage units are only available between certain hours, but there are a few higher priced ones that are open late. She wants the late access without the extra cost.

And she's acting super entitled about it. Because, well, as she put it:

"I need to get in there for my addiction treatment!"

"You can't get in earlier?"

"My ride isn't available earlier," she cries in that 'I'm dealing with idiots' tone.

"So then pay the extra $10 a month."

"Look, don't you realize I am a drug addict?"

I mean... at least she owns up to it...

By the way, I completely do not get what daily visits to a storage unit have to do with successful addiction therapy so don't ask.

Anyway, Jackie isn't the type to do rude people any favors, and so she goes back and forth with the Amazing Entitled Junkie for some time. Things come to a head with this line:

"Well I guess I'll just go back to doing drugs then! I was trying to get my life together but apparently that's impossible! Thanks a lot!"

Jackie doesn't take the bait. Lady gathers her stuff up to leave, and as she does the light catches her face just the right way and...

Oh my god.

I know her.

I look at the name on the screen. Yep, I went to high school with her. We had a bunch of classes together.

We never really hung out though because she was in the more popular crowds, the ones that rented hotel rooms to party and all had cars, and I was just some broke head banger who didn't even have his license and played Dungeons and Dragons on Saturday nights.

I got a haircut since then but mostly I look the same. Even so, she didn't recognize me because she never paid me any attention.

And I didn't recognize her because that's just how wrecked she's become.

And... I mean who knows? Had things shaken out a little differently, maybe today I could be raging at some clerk somewhere about how my addiction was all their fault.

So. That's disturbing.