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  • #1

    I don't even

    I had a real winner tonight.

    A woman about my age (late 50s) and her son/grandson/nephew (maybe 8 or 9) I don't know what the relationship was, headed towards my register. I could hear her arguing ... although he wasn't saying anything. "You have to pay for your own shit!" (Yes she said that).

    Okay, so I know how to act with arguing amongst themselves customers. I am polite, ask the things I'm supposed to, and make no comments. So here they come. Oh my lord! I'm sorry, but I live in rural North Carolina, and we have "white trash" to the ultimate meaning of the words. And this woman was - you know the type, dressed inappropriately to be in public and certainly not with a minor, reeking of alcohol, etc. But anyway I digress.

    They arrive at the register. She has a gallon of milk. I ring it up, she pays, all is well. The little boy has 4 candy packages, it doesn't really matter what they were. His total I don't remember. He hands me a $10, and wanders off (as little kids do). I DO remember his change is $6.33. As I'm counting out his change, this woman - lovely human being that she is - yells "Get back here! You have to get your change. I know SHE (meaning me) would like you to leave it so that she could keep it, but you have to get your change!"

    I'm like WHAT? How the HELL did I insult you that you feel the need to be so offensive to me? You don't know me. I didn't piss in your Wheaties. What the hell?

    Later I thought ... what a wonderful lesson this woman is giving the child .... all cashiers are thieves
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    Put simply -- that's what SHE would have wanted, if she were cashiering, assuming she is capable of handling the job. In her mind (and I use the term loosely), that means that everyone ELSE on the planet would automatically be the same way x.x
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    • #3
      I surprised SHE didn't steal the money, then claim YOU stole it!

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      • #4
        Jeez, what a creep! That was an uncalled-for remark if I ever heard/read/saw one!
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        • #5
          Hard not to be insulted, for sure. But her comments say a lot more about her than they do about you.
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          • #6
            Quoth bainsidhe View Post
            Hard not to be insulted, for sure. But her comments say a lot more about her than they do about you.
            I'd say this one's the type you'd see on COPS with her hair in curlers, wearing a tube top three sizes too small and shorts that would make Daisy Duke blush, beer in one hand, yelling at the cops "He hit me first!" as they're hauling HER in cuffs to the back of a police cruiser.
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            • #7
              Quoth Teefies2 View Post
              I know SHE (meaning me) would like you to leave it...
              I would have taken that as permission to keep it, as a "tip."
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              • #8
                Quoth Teefies2 View Post
                ... And this woman was - you know the type, dressed inappropriately to be in public and certainly not with a minor, reeking of alcohol, etc. But anyway I digress.
                Uhhh... This wouldn't be 'in the Mart of Wall,' would it?
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                • #9
                  Quoth SailorMan View Post
                  Uhhh... This wouldn't be 'in the Mart of Wall,' would it?
                  Actually no, a slightly more upscale store, but again, I'm in North Carolina

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                  • #10
                    I've found those who yell the loudest about how everyone around them is a potential thief, and suspect that they'll be swindled the instant they let their ever-present guard down, are usually thieves themselves.

                    We had a person at work on the office/payroll side of things who was constantly berating us for the slightest of billing mistakes, accusing us of trying to short the company or get them fired for discrepancies, if a customer paid you for a service in cash and you had the audacity to do another call that was pending BEFORE coming back to base to put that money IN THE SAFE you were looked at with a suspicious eye for potentially "pocketing" the money, even if it was accounted for when asked....

                    Wanna guess who has since been fired and is facing 8 counts of embezzlement?

                    Yep
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Teefies2 View Post
                      Actually no, a slightly more upscale store, but again, I'm in North Carolina
                      Compared to the Wallyworlds around here (or at least in my part of NC) Flower's would be more upscale. And that may not be saying much.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Teefies2 View Post
                        Actually no, a slightly more upscale store, but again, I'm in North Carolina
                        Soooo... K-Mart?
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                        • #13
                          Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                          Soooo... K-Mart?
                          That actually might be an improvement.

                          Sadly we no longer have a K-Mart store here (was shut down earlier this year.)
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                          • #14
                            Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
                            Sadly we no longer have a K-Mart store here (was shut down earlier this year.)
                            I moved from California to Virginia a couple of years ago, and in both localities in which I lived, K-Marts were 'going down.' Must be a big restructuring going on.
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                            • #15
                              No K Mart here either. Not sure what Flowers is, but I work for a drugstore. Which has its own set of drugseekers in addition to the usual NC white trash

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