Dark Moments in Cumby's

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This is Cumby's in Montpelier, VT.

Kind of sketch, right?  Yeah, I think so too.

Anywho, behold the tales of Friday, 11/12/2010:

After leaving U-32 and having watched Erin Galligan-Baldwin's phenomenal A Midsummer's Night Dream, Jake, Ryan and I decided we should stop at Cumby's because we were all hungry.  Well, as if that weren't the worst decision in the world.

A tiny Latina woman was working the counter and she appeared to be alone.  Cumby's was pretty hoppin' when we got there.  There was a truck parked getting gas, and about 4-5 customers inside.  (Yes, this is considered busy by Vermont standards.)  Jake, Ryan and I enter to begin scouring the place for food items that catch our eye. 

"Wait, where's the chocolate milk?" I wailed. 

(There was no apparent regular-sized drinkable container of chocolate milk-which made me very sad as my throat was starting to get a bit scratchy.) 

Eventually Ryan saved the day and found some for me.  :) 

We all eventually get in line with our less-than-nutritional food choices and are chatting back and forth.  Then, this true Redneck VT Hick assclown comes in and is all like, "WHEAS MY FUCKIN' GAS CYLINDAH?  I BEEN WAITIN' ABOUT 20 FUCKIN' MINITS!  I GOT THINGS TA DO!  WHAT'S GOIN' ON?"

The poor Latina woman replies, "I'm so sorry.  I have customers..."

"NOW!" he cuts her off.

Well....that's nice.

The woman asks if I mind waiting for a few minutes while she goes to help him.  I say no, not at all, and she walks out into the darkness. 

30 seconds pass...

2 minutes pass...

5 minutes pass...

"Uhm.....so, is she still alive, or....?" we collectively ask.

This was getting to be incredibly sketchy.  We couldn't tell if he had taken her around back and killed her, or was in the process of abducting her.  The security camera feed was appearing on a television right in the store, but there was no camera focused around back where I believe the gas cylinders were located.  Shoot.  Well....okay.

Things got awkward as we continued to stand there for about 7 minutes total.  In the meantime, guy after consecutively sketchy guy continued to enter Cumby's.  There were about 8 people in line by the time the FINAL guy came in. 

"I'll help you guys in just a few minutes." he said as he walked around behind the counters.  Wait, where did he come from?  WTF?!

Obviously he worked there because he knew how to work the cash register, but Ryan and Jake apparently thought all of these guys were in on robbing the store or something.  I guess they thought the guy behind the counter was the ringleader?  Hahaha.  I have to admit that never really crossed my mind at the time, but is really quite amusing in retrospect.

Finally we were able to purchase our items and GTFO! 

So, if you have a hankering for Cumby's after seeing a high school play in Montpelier--my recommendation?

DON'T DO IT!!!!

This Weekend...was Awesome.

Where do I start in telling you about this weekend????  My goodness!  Well, first off, I took Ashley home with me for Friday night.  We ended up driving around St. J, Lyndonville, stopping @ P-chops for food & a Redbox movie, going to Cumby's for more food, and staying up till 3-3:30 am reading all the magazines that had come in the mail for me as well as trying to watch The Shortcut. 

We had planned to go to the big St. J/LI Football Game (the 105th one mind you), and actually that didn't happen.  But LI won 14-0!!!!!  Kind of a little bit of domination there. :) 

Then, after scrambling back to Burlington, we got ready for HALLOWEEN.  What a blast!  After Ryan and I put on all our makeup, we made a pretty kick-ass Sweeney Todd and Ms. Lovett.

Why is Ryan's hair SO not awesome?  :)  Love it!  We had fun trying to get Joe's hair to do the same thing essentially.  Good times. :)

So, after our failed attempt at Trick-or-Treating (no one wants to give candy to college students....what's with that?)  we dropped everything back off at the dorm.  We are people just like anyone else, are we not?  We deserve a night to get candy that we don't have to pay for seeing as how we're more broke than you most of the time.  Psh. Whatev.

Anywho, after that, we decided to go walk around Church St. & City Park to take pictures.

And then other than the drunk people asking "Where the F#@! is my F*$R&#g Pirate Cup?" and Ashley totally dominating one conversation with random people, it was pretty uneventful.

We ended up walking to Winooski, and decided to walk down under the bridge.

Yes, it was a good time.  After all this, we walked back to Ryan & Joe's dorm (after me sprinting for about 3 minutes straight because Joe somehow walked really fast and got really far ahead of us without realizing it,) we took a pee-break, and came back to my dorm for the night. 

We ordered Wings, I stared and couldn't breathe after eating, then we went to bed. 

I LOVE my friends so much!  In conclusion, this weekend was AWESOME.  One of the best I've had I think!  It was my first spent with Ryan, my first spent "out on the town" with friends, not being followed around my family.  Pretty exciting stuff!

Lots of Love,

Megan