The old, tattered, motheaten race card is pulled out yet again... and other stories.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I hate Saturdays. -.- And Sundays. Well, just the ones I work at the supermarket, cuz that's when the crazies come out. O.o

1. It's cuz I is black.

This happened just one hour after I started, when I really wasn't in the mood for it. This black girl came up to my till with a bottle of Lambrini. She looked very young, so I naturally asked her for ID. She said, "What are you doing? Oh, I don't believe this. You're only asking me for ID cuz I'm black!" I replied, "No, we've got an under 21 policy in that we ask everyone who appears under 21." "That's bullshit. You white bitch, you're just discriminating against me!" At this point, I pressed the buzzer for a supervisor. The girl however left before the supervisor arrived... but without the booze, which I put on the side. I was a bit shaken after this, but didn't have much recovery time.

2. Flower Woman.

Flower Woman was so named cuz she claimed to have picked 3 bunches of flowers marked as £2.99 out of a bucket marked £1.99. Even after the supervisor patiently explained that the flowers were bucketed indiscriminately, and there were no price tags on the bucket, the stupid woman still insisted that the flowers were £1.99 each. In the end, the supervisor caved in and gave her the flowers at that price, which pissed me off. I hate it when people cave into SCs like this. -.-

3. Ch ch change...

I ran out of change near the end of my shift; I just had coppers and 5ps left, meaning that I had to ask a lot of customers for correct change. Most were alright about this but one woman demanded to know why I hadn't gotten any chance. My attempts to explain that I'd asked for change 3 times and been fobbed off were ignored; she kept going on and on. I can't magically make it appear, or force the supervisors to give me any!

4. The SCs are getting younger... O.o

Girl of about 10 comes up to my till with a Bratz doll, which comes up at £7.99. SC Girl then whines, "But it's marked down to 10p!" Bulldroppings. Some of the toys are marked down to half price, but never to 10p. I tell SC Girl that I have to call a supervisor, she says, "Don't want it anyway!" and runs off. -.-

[CancelMyService]

Sorry for you having to deal with that but I laugh every time someone follows a pull of a race card with a racial slur towards the cashier/salesperson. "YOU'RE RACIST YOU WHITE CRACKA ASS CRACKA!@!" C'mon now, if you're going to claim racism at least wait 5 minutes for dropping your own bombs.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Sorry for you having to deal with that but I laugh every time someone follows a pull of a race card with a racial slur towards the cashier/salesperson. "YOU'RE RACIST YOU WHITE CRACKA ASS CRACKA!@!" C'mon now, if you're going to claim racism at least wait 5 minutes for dropping your own bombs.

but if you're an oppressed minority you're allowed!

Same way us women are allowed to bitch about how Men R Stoopid but the men can't do the same about us!

[Quicksilver]

The only racist in that story was the girl trying to buy the booze. What a loser.

[edible_hat]

My favourite race card moment:


SC: "You're refusing to sell me ice because I'm Asian!"
me: "No, I'm refusing to sell you ice because we're out of ice. Go have a look."
(SC stomps out to the freezer where the bags of ice are, opens the door, glares at it, glares at me, gets into his substitute-penis-mobile and drives off).

BTW this was during a really hot week when one of the two ice companies in town had a major machinery breakdown, I bet that SC tried to play the race card at every service station in town.

[ArenaBoy]

My favorite race card moment? A young black girl who faked injury at the chains despite the fact that I was 10 feet away from her and called me all sorts of things. It was funny seeing passerbys saying "Oh get up you idiot you're making yourself look bad!"

[Lace Neil Singer]

My favourite race card moment:


SC: "You're refusing to sell me ice because I'm Asian!"
me: "No, I'm refusing to sell you ice because we're out of ice. Go have a look."
(SC stomps out to the freezer where the bags of ice are, opens the door, glares at it, glares at me, gets into his substitute-penis-mobile and drives off).

BTW this was during a really hot week when one of the two ice companies in town had a major machinery breakdown, I bet that SC tried to play the race card at every service station in town.

Classic moment. Especially this bit:

substitute-penis-mobile

[BlakeMP]

Those Bratz dolls are disturbing as hell anyway. It's like the toy manufacturers ran out of ways to make Barbie more anatomically unrealistic, so they just decided to slut her up as much as possible.

[blas]

Their heads are enormous! It's scary!

[Lace Neil Singer]

They should be renamed Slutz, really. O_o And they all have trout pouts.

[friendofjimmyk]

I can't STAND those BRATZ dolls. They are just disgusting. I have grown to loathe anything that makes it "cool" for a young girl to wear revealing clothing and lots of make-up and act like a ding-bat.

[Sparkticus]

oh gods... I remember the first time I saw the last iteration of those... bratz babyz...

I actually felt physically sick!

I can't stand them... the standard bratz aren't too bad, no worse than a hundred other toys, but these newer ones...

[hotelnpa]

We take room deposits for cash paying guests with local addresses. In the past, guests with local addresses tend to mess up the rooms more than people from outside of the area. This one local black guy came in, wanting to pay cash. The person right before him, an out of towner, a white guy, from several states away, paid cash but we don't require deposits in that instance. When I informed the local black guy about local guests having to pay a deposit, he went ballistic on me. Yelling, cursing, calling me a racist. Everyone could hear it. He said I didn't charge the white guy a deposit. Once again I explained the policy.

I guess if he came up at another time, it may have not been an issue. But we even have a sign (gasp...I know, SC's can't read) indicating that locals must pay a deposit. It's actually done to discourage locals from staying in the hotel because they tend to be loud and cause problems.

[myswtghst]

My coworkers get a kick every time they start cracking minority/black jokes when I remind them that I, too, am a minority. I'm Native American, but thanks to the fact that the rest of my heritage is Dutch and English, I don't much look it. It's always fun to have that card to pull when someone tries to whine to me about discrimination.

[Andara Bledin]

Funny story:

Tonight, Nekojin & I went out to have a nice dinner, courtesy of my boss, who gave me a very pretty card with a gift inside.

Anyway, after dinner we went to the nearby game store to check out and maybe buy a few used games.

While we're going through the used games, the guy at the counter calls out, "You didn't give me a bag. This guy didn't give me a bag 'cause I'm black."

We both turned to glance at the guy and he's laughing and his girlfriend is looking embarrassed. He thanked the clerk (who still didn't give him a bag), and took his leave.

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