Rainbow's bad day at the store.
Rainbow Dash strolled down the short cut grass that was in between Hay street and the park. She was on an adventure of some of the most minor of needs, milk. She barely had enough for a bowl of cereal, so she decided to simply deal with it now rather than later, so she took her time to enjoy the day as she strolled happily to her favorite corner market near Town Hall. Nothing fancy, but there was something even she could enjoy of mundane locations.
She walked in and the bell rang that there was a new customer, and as she did, she wondered how annoying that bell must be for the employees. Whenever someone enters or leaves it goes, Ding Dong. Day in and day out for their entire shifts they have to hear that dumb sound constantly. Dash wouldn't be able to stand it, not in the slightest, she often refused to go into Rarity's boutique because of that dumb bell hanging above the door. But then Rainbow asked her strangely quizzical brain why she'd bother wondering about it since she doesn't work at the store. It's like getting irritated at homework for school when you work at a job that has no home work at all.
Stupid time wasting questions aside though, Dash was now holding her milk. Whole Milk, the best, nothing but the absolute best. And only Lucerne, she was kinda picky like that, off brands never really tasted the same as the original. The only thing she was never picky about buying was water bottles, because water tastes like water so why be obsessed over one type?
Rainbow hopped up to the line of the check out isle. A couple ponies in front of her and she would be off back home to nap or sleep or something relaxing on her few days off this week, or to use the bathroom as the need quickly arose. It was hitting Dash hard and fast, and there were other ponies shopping around. It wasn't a very busy store, so there was only one clerk. If she could hold it in, she could just take care of it at home but...yeah she couldn't. No way, that was her mistake, she was so hungry late last night that she ate what she thought were a couple of snack bars, but were actually some of her Fiber packed bars and they were were sliding through her. Right as there was only one more pony in front of her, she walked back, put her milk back in it's row, and moved towards the bathroom.
She walked into the mare's room only to find the most horrifying of scenes possible. An out of order sign on the door, to one stall, and the other looked like a murder scene, and just seeing those almost made her lose everything. Crap was as suitable a word as ever for her to say under her breath, though since no one was immediately around she chose an alternative. Dash quickly thought of nearby mare's rooms and whether she could make it, but then paused as she left the two stall bathroom, and saw a colt's room closer to the front of the hall entrance. Feeling about ready to explode, she straightened herself out, and knocked on the door several times. She then hopped in and made her way to the only stall in the men's room and locked it tight. And relieved flooded into her as evil flooded out, this was the first and last time she'd ever eat five fiber packed bars within a couple hours. But just as she was feeling in a peaceful paradise, the evil flooded right back in when she heard someone come into the bathroom.
She heard a quiet grunt, and saw the hooves under the stall move to the urinal beside her. Dash was nearly done, but the stallion seemed to hesitate with his own business at first. He didn't flush and moved away as the mare held her breath hoping he would just leave and she could finish. But he didn't, instead he walked away from the urinal, and stood in the corner. He had to go too, and couldn't go number one without going number two. Dash was now cornered as her own work finally began to end, unfortunately sound wise it was ending like the the final round of fireworks at a show. It lasted maybe six seconds, but it was enough that no matter what, she wanted to die because she couldn't face whoever was outside and heard all of that. What's worse to is if she tried to leave, she would see him. If he saw the sign, maybe he'd understand, but the colt's room was first, so he'd have had to go down the hall, and see the condition they were in to give her a pass, which he didn't nor wouldn't. She couldn't move fast either because of her distinguishable rainbow trail. She quickly tried her only decent tactic, and deepened her voice to sound like a stallion.
"Hey, uh...I uh...think I'm gonna be a while...dude...so uh...you might want to just go somewhere else, if you gotta...bro..." She didn't really get much of a response back, until she could see that the stallion adjusted his legs so he could look down and see her hooves, and then she saw he quickly stood back up when he realized who was in the stall.
"Rainbow Dash? That you?" Oh crap, it was Big Macintosh. The jig was up, anyone like him who knew her for five minutes could tell it was her from the blue legs dangling down and the terrible voice changing, and now he was aware the extent of her bathroom visit.
"Don't tell anyone please Big Mac, the mare's room's all dirty and out of order, I really had to go, please for the love of Celestia don't tell anyone!"
"Easy miss, ah know how et is when bathroom's are all dirty er broken like a pig pen. Ah won't tell no one." As thankful she was that he would't tell anyone, that still meant HE knew she went into the colts room to do her oval office meeting.
"Is...is AJ gonna see me coming out of here?"
"She's at home."
"Oh...good...uh...could you..you know...face the wall so I can..." With a sigh she saw his hooves turn and he respectfully faced the wall for her. She was quick and efficient after that and was cautious stepping out. She started washing her hooves at the sink, occasionally glancing to her friends brother to make sure he wasn't watching. "Alright...thanks..." She hurriedly steps out of the bathroom, only to bump right into a stallion who was on his way in. She quickly coughed up a lie that she went into the wrong bathroom on accident before he even opened his lips, and the she squeezed passed him without another word. With irritation that she forgot her caution, and an embarrassed blush, she rushed out, grabbed the milk, and was about to get back in line, which now had three ponies in it, when she glanced at the milk and saw the expiration date was only for till the end of this week. She didn't drink milk all that often and really only had it for cereal, so she needed one to last. She trotted back and saw one that would be good for the next two weeks, and hopped back only to find five ponies in line now ahead of her. If there was a desk in front of her, she'd have a broken nose and broken teeth from how hard she'd have slammed her head on it.
With a quiet groan she got back into place and waited as the first pony was tended to, and then the second one in line. As she waited there to just get out of the blasted store, her stomach groaned again like it had earlier. Dash was nearly bursting with anger as she just wanted some stupid milk and it's taken this long. She looked between her front legs, pointed at her stomach, and quietly cursed it to another plain of existence, specifically another name for Tartarus. As she inched closer, the groaning continued, and she was certain it was loud enough the mare in front could hear her. When her stomach grumbled what sounded like a death threat, the mare's ear twitched and the blush in Rainbow's face was turning her head purple, as she was pleading desperately to Celestia that the mare not turn around.
Luckily she didn't as she was tended to by the clerk.
"Find everything you needed?" He asked politely.
"Yeah, thanks." Dash just wanted to leave and be alone and her dream came into reality as she paid for the milk, took her receipt, and grabbed the milk to leave, but of course that would be too easy for the type of day she had already. As she pulled the milk away, it hit the edge of the check out stand, bounced out of her hold, and she tried to catch it but missed and it exploded on the floor. Spraying milk everywhere and a good stream started flowing from where it dropped to the door. Rainbow froze looking at the mess and the milk dripping off her nose, she caught herself from screaming when she turned back to see all who had saw what happened, and saw several fillies and foals, but she was going to knock down a forest or something later to get rid of this anger.
"Don't worry about that miss, I saw it, it was an accident. I'll clean it up and we'll just check you out another gallon of milk. No charge." The cashier said as he offered her a paper towel for her face. He popped out a wet floor sign and quickly ran to get another worker who was in the way back of the market to help him. Dash growled like a tiger as she wiped her face and with boiling red blood walked all the way to the back to get another gallon and then got back in line. She didn't say a word, she didn't care about anything, she didn't care how her stomach felt, the sooner she left this market the sooner she could break something.
The cashier waved her up and told her that she could just leave with it and that she didn't need to check out. The rays of hope finally shined on her as she trotted out of the store. Leaving felt like she had just been released from prison after a long strenuous session. She flew as quickly as she could home and locked the door, the adventure outside her home that day being enough for the next couple of weeks in her opinion. She was caught making loud noises in the bathroom by a stallion she knew, tried leaving and was caught by someone she didn't, lost her place in line twice, and dropped a fresh gallon of milk right when she was about to leave, all in the span of less than twenty minutes. A day like that deserved a drink of victory, the only victory being able to get home. She popped the milk top off, poured herself a glass, took a swig, and spit it out. It wasn't whole milk, she grabbed skim milk.
"FUCK!"