I can't stand this.

Every time I try to shop, there they are. Just waiting to assault me with their wares. "Try this!" "Would you like a sample?" "This is on sale now!"

I just want to shop, for God's sake. Let me do that.

I have a college degree. And the monthly loan payment to prove it. But no worthwhile job prospects to pay it. Here I am. A full-time job with part-time pay and part-time benefits. I'm lucky I take anything home. Let alone sanity.

I just want to work, for God's sake. Let me do that.

I know I shouldn't complain.

They're just offering me freebies. How often do we get anything for free in this day and age? But it's never something I care about or want. It's just a distraction to keep me in the store and keep me shopping and keep me off target.

It's a job and it took me months to find. But I hate it. It's demeaning. It's bad enough that I work here, but when I come in and find I've been assigned to the sample kiosks, another little piece of me dies. Kids begging for samples. Adults who take more than one. People who take a sample and then put it back when they find out what it is and I have to throw it out. It's insulting. Just let me stock shelves or open shipments or mop aisles or anything else.

Just leave me alone!

That was a different one, wasn't it?