Taste of Edmonton 2009

The previous two days I have enjoyed the feast available at the 20th Annual Taste of Edmonton. There is nearly every food imaginable available for your culinary consumption. As a result, it draws a lot of people every year, so one naturally expects there to be crowds.

What is unreasonable to expect, however, is if someone...oh, let's say ME, for instance...purposely finds a place far removed from the set path of pedestrian traffic to enjoy her meal, that I should still be sought out by complete strangers only to be jostled about because they, as they claimed, "didn't see me".

I, for those of you unaware of my stature, am NOT invisible. Neither am I short or diminutive in the least. I am the complete, polar opposite of INVISIBLE.

Needless to say, it was the Baby Boomers who did the most damage. I very nearly ended up wearing rather than eating my lunch on countless occasions, and all during a single lunch hour. Why? Who the #$%* knows! I was standing there. Some short circuit inside the brains of Baby Boomers goes off and says "COMMENCE ANNOYING BEHAVIOUR".

Neither do they recognize the glaringly simple concept of "the lineup" or "queue". People lined up are generally in that line waiting for something. This does NOT mean, "Oh, okay, let's butt into the line and just generally mill about without any purpose, and hopefully upset the food plates some of the liners up may already have, thus wreaking our own brand of Baby Boomer chaos and destruction. Note to selves: PLAY DUMB and continue on your way like nothing happened."

The way to deal with this, Fair Readers, is to exact a similar form of revenge. But make it clear that YOU are indeed doing it on purpose. Wreck their days for a change!