there's an immediate goal which seems worth a lot more than the long-term goal and so you blow it off whether you're going to be out of money out of whether your girlfriend's going to leave you whether you're going to get in trouble with the cops whether you're going lose your job those are future events and all you can really think about is whether or not I'm going to get high tonight

Self checkouts should be giving us a discount for checking our own selves out. I've learned that you may put items under your cart and accidentally pay yourself by missing an item or two if you're in a pressured rush. Often I forget items in the store because I forget to bag them in a hurry. I figure the score is about even. I'm too lazy to go back and get what I forget by the time I get home. At least we should get a dollar off per $50 spent. It takes me 5 times as long to check myself out.