I was at Wal-mart a couple days ago with my father. I was in need of a calligraphy pen for my home-made Valentine's Day card I was making. He needed deodorant. Wal-mart is always rather packed with people of all types. It seems as though this is the one place where diamond crusted “richies” shop alongside those from the ghetto. I've often wondered why it was that these “high class” citizens try to save a buck at Wal-mart. I mean, come on! Don't they have enough money to burn as it is?
But as I was walking through Wal-mart, I quickly gathered my supplies of choice. Soon enough, my dad and I were on our way back to the car when I heard a scream. It wasn't one of those, “Help me! Help me!” screams either. It was more like an angry scream, an “I hate you!” scream. My dad, of course, didn't hear it. Then again, he's 80% deaf. Immediately, I look around for the source. Low and behold, a couple was in the middle of a heated battle at a nearby bus stop. The man was sitting as the woman towered over him, arms flailing.
“I can't believe you could do this to me! You liar!”
“I can't help it! She was hot!”
It went on and on, eventually resulting in about 35 cuss words and one walking in one direction, opposite of the other. I was flabbergasted. Not only were they a couple fighting over him cheating on her and both of them screaming out their fight in the Wal-mart parking lot, but I haven't heard that horrible of language ever. And mind you, I have graduated high school. I couldn't help thinking as she would look back, watching him fade into the distance and him doing the same to her a few moments later, that sometimes, it's quite obvious when a couple should call it quits. Even though deep inside, I saw them apologizing and returning to each other in the end, drawing out the life of abuse and distrust, I felt for them. I wondered how many times my friends or I have been in a relationship that was that obviously bad. I wonder where I would be if I never got out of them, if my life was nothing but apologizing and forgiving.
There are sometimes in life when you just have to see the picture for what it's worth and move on. In this case, both of them should move on. After all he's “never going to amount to nothing” and she “ain't nothing but a…”
