I couldn't decide whether to put this here, or in Sightings, but since most of these asshats actually bought something, I'll put it here.
On to the story:
Yesterday, just before I got to work, there was a horrific accident about 3/4 of a mile up the freeway. Juuuuuuuuuuuuust after I got to work, we started to notice that customers were asking how to get to Madison without going on 94-W. O...K...
That's when we found about the accident. A dune buggy flipped over, and the initial reports were that someone died*. A rumor that was floating around was that some people got out of their vehicles, looked into the DB, and then ran away. I'm praying that that isn't true.
Anyway, on to the suck.
For the better part of 3 ½ hours, people would come storming into the store, grab their food and/ or sodas, and when they were paying would bitch: "Why is the freeway shut down?!?! They kicked us off for no reason!! ::bitch bitch bitch::" You get the idea.
Our response: "There was a BAD car accident just up the freeway. Someone DIED."
Most had the grace to look chagrined at that.
The moral of the story, boys and girls, is this: if they kick you off the freeway, not suggest that you MIGHT want to take an alternate route, but actually force you off of the freeway, especially if you've been stuck in a traffic jam for at least an hour, then you had better believe there was a damn good reason for it, OK?
*We found out later that the person survived, at least initially. They were airlifted out, but that was the last I heard.
On to the story:
Yesterday, just before I got to work, there was a horrific accident about 3/4 of a mile up the freeway. Juuuuuuuuuuuuust after I got to work, we started to notice that customers were asking how to get to Madison without going on 94-W. O...K...
That's when we found about the accident. A dune buggy flipped over, and the initial reports were that someone died*. A rumor that was floating around was that some people got out of their vehicles, looked into the DB, and then ran away. I'm praying that that isn't true.
Anyway, on to the suck.
For the better part of 3 ½ hours, people would come storming into the store, grab their food and/ or sodas, and when they were paying would bitch: "Why is the freeway shut down?!?! They kicked us off for no reason!! ::bitch bitch bitch::" You get the idea.
Our response: "There was a BAD car accident just up the freeway. Someone DIED."
Most had the grace to look chagrined at that.
The moral of the story, boys and girls, is this: if they kick you off the freeway, not suggest that you MIGHT want to take an alternate route, but actually force you off of the freeway, especially if you've been stuck in a traffic jam for at least an hour, then you had better believe there was a damn good reason for it, OK?
*We found out later that the person survived, at least initially. They were airlifted out, but that was the last I heard.
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