JimBobby has a new poem on his blog: A boy named Steve. He's also got an audio version.

I went to the Dominion store on College St. to pick up a prescription from the adjoining Shopper's Drug Mart and drop off some film at the grocery store itself.

After also picking up a few items in the store, I waited in the checkout line. Ahead of my was some guy who looked to be in his 40s (vaguely resembled Kevin Spacey) and was acting like time was extremely valuable to him.

He repeatedly kept motioning at one clerk to see if she'd open another till, all the while fretting and checking his watch ("I'm late/I'm late/For a very important date ...").

When she did open it, he shot towards the new till past everyone in line behind him.

After his stuff is checked through, he looked outside, hissed "fuck!" and shot out of the store. He went out to where his grey Porsche Carrera was parked, and rubbed his hand over the apparent boo-boo. He starts beaking at a late middle-aged woman.

While he's doing this, the clerk says: "He's holding up the whole line." I replied: "But it's different: This is our time he's wasting, not us wasting his!"

He stormed back in the store. "Can you call the manager? I'm really fucking upset." She complies.

Fifteen seconds go by. No manager.

"Can you call him again?!?!" She does.

In the meantime, he looked steamed as the cashier asked him to pay up so she could process the other customers.

The manager shows up. The guy takes him outside, saying this woman had opened a gate that allowed grocery carts to leave and lost control of her cart, hitting his precious, precious car.

And where was the precious car parked?

Smack dab in the middle of a clearly-marked no-parking zone!

My sympathies, Mr. In-A-Hurry. My sympathies.

This ditty has been flying around the Net (thanks, Mr. T-dot!).

Apparently FIFA has ordered an investigation into the Zinedine Zidane head-butting, including what might have been  said by Italy's Marco Materazzi to provoke Zidane to butt him.

From the BBC:

Materazzi defended himself on Tuesday in the Italian newspaper La Gazetta dello Sport, when he said: "It was the kind of insult you will hear dozens of times and just slips out of the ground.

"I didn't call Zidane a terrorist and certainly didn't mention his mother."

Zidane looked at me with super arrogance ... it's true I shot back with an insult Marco Materazzi

Zidane, who was born and grew up in Marseille, is the son of Algerian immigrants and has suffered taunts about his heritage throughout his football career.

But Materazzi added: "I am ignorant, I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is; my only terrorist is her," he said pointing to his 10-month-old daughter.

"I did not bring up Zidane's mother; for me a mother is sacred."

I confess to amusement at the thought of an Italian soccer player bristling with anger because someone looked at him with "super arrogance," but that's just me. :)