Eugene, Ore. (BN) — It took a Japanese international student approximately fifteen minutes to purchase a cigarette lighter from under the glass counter at a local 7-11 this past weekend, witnesses and security camera footage revealed to Brimborion News.
At the store located on the corner of 13th and Alder, consumers were frustrated to find themselves waiting in line behind the student and his entourage, when all they wanted was to ‘grab their sh— and get out of there.’
“He picked out every lighter they had first,” said Leonard Morrissey, 21, a Health Sciences major at the university. “And then had the [clerk] lay them all out in front of him. And he’d pick them up and look at them, sometimes two at a time. It was like, he was about to make a decision, and then he would nod off for a few seconds. Then he’d come to and forget where he was, and have to start over.”
“I just wanted to grab my sh— and get out of there,” said Neil Davidson, 47, another customer who found himself trapped in line. “It was halftime of the Ducks game and I was doing a beer run. And just my luck, I get stuck behind someone who sees his own soul in a SpongeBob Bic.”
Much of the incident took place while the second of two employees working that night was on his break, which led to the considerable amount of waiting time.
“I walked back in after my smoke break and there were, like, eight people standing there, looking really pissed off,” said the night’s second employee, Josh Berganmeier, 39. “At one point ringing people up, I look over and the dude takes this little anime figure out and places it on the counter next to the lighters. Kind of made them duke it out some. It was like there was going to be a bigger fight later, and this was, like, the pre-fight press conference.”
When asked which lighter the Japanese student wound up purchasing, Berganmeier replied, “All of them, I think.”
