Scary? No, more comical actually

[Der Cute]

Quoth Slave to the Phone

I ride a Harley. My friends are bikers. When we are out on the bikes, we wear jeans and leathers and chain our stuff to our bodies. We don't do this to intimidate people, we do it because its the most practicle way to dress.

It always amazes me when we go into a store to get water and snacks and the clerks look frightened. We are always polite and everything.

See, I'll take a biker for safe any day. Yalls have to ride on 2 wheels, not four, and if you're going to be out, riding, with less coverage than a car, you know about safety.
Plus I have some biker friends and they'd come help me in a pinch. I don't worry about leather jackets. I worry more about the people who do <.< >.> stuff.

[dakhur]

Quoth Mamochan

They are just peacocks. flashing their looks around to make them look alot more scary then they are ^^;

More like lyre birds.

They appear from the undergrowth, strut to their mounds, spead their showy stuff, and proceed to make a variety of odd and unappealing noises. And then get annoyed when you ignore them and go off in a sulk to peck at something innocent.

[Bella_Vixen]

Goodness. You should come to my store. The owner/managers are so racist, it's humiliating.

If a black person comes in late at night, the manager will "casually" walk the store.

Yeah. They are about as subtle as a train wreck. It's especially fun when the get department managers to do it, too. I don't think that deli managers spend part of their shift doing laps around the store, looking into every aisle like they've never been to the store before.

[Mytical]

Well can only go by what I found out during my stint at Wally World..More often then not the people who were caught stealing were semi well dressed (at least). Now of course this is only what we caught..but the last report on theft we ran had the majority as "Male, White, Well Dressed." I am sure it is different everywhere, but you can not judge a book by its cover.

[Argus]

Quoth Bella_Vixen

Goodness. You should come to my store. The owner/managers are so racist, it's humiliating.

If a black person comes in late at night, the manager will "casually" walk the store.

That sounds like they are just asking for one double-team approach:

The black guys head to the far corner of the store and act like they are shoplifting. While all eyes are on them, their white accomplices do the actual shoplifting. (I know one guy who had that attempted on him; it didn't work because the decoys were too obvious about attracting his attention. Also, he is black himself.)

[PepperElf]

Quoth Seraph

I just about died laughing at this. Its so TRUE.

The louder someone acts, the more I know they're probably just about harmless. Its the quiet ones you have to worry about!

Anyone else thinking of the original Harold & Kumar movie? Where the "extreme" kids turn out to be closet soft-rock fans?

Quoth Slave to the Phone

I ride a Harley. My friends are bikers. When we are out on the bikes, we wear jeans and leathers and chain our stuff to our bodies. We don't do this to intimidate people, we do it because its the most practicle way to dress.

It always amazes me when we go into a store to get water and snacks and the clerks look frightened. We are always polite and everything.

Like the original idea for Happy Days - iirc they didn't want The Fonz wearing the leather jacket because of the 'rough' look - but he won the argument for it, pointing out that it's promoting motorcycle safety.

[XCashier]

Quoth Kiwi

This mr macho man...looked like an over inflated oompah loompah

Great description! (Honestly, I can't understand why anyone would think an orange fake tan looks good!)

Quoth Kiwi

The guy who was paying made this big deal about counting out $700 in twenties and was like "impressed?" to me and I smiled and pretended to be confused and said "oh at what, the duvet cover, yes it's nice isn't it"

Good one! Deflated Mr. Moneybucks' ego!

Quoth LillFilly

Can you believe in 2-years NEVER did we kick-out a goth or punk (the ones always labeled as troublemakers) it was always the cute preppy kids in their gap and abercrombie and fitch shoplifting underwear from Debs and the like. You can never judge.

I believe it. When I worked at the Drug Store From Hell, my favorite customers were the big, scary-looking bikers, with their leather jackets, grease-stained jeans and ZZ Top beards. They were always nice, well-mannered, treated me like a fellow human being. The so-called "decent" people wearing conservative clothing were the ones who treated me like scum on their shoes and more often than not were shoplifters and scammers.

[Slave to the Phone]

Quoth XCashier

I believe it. When I worked at the Drug Store From Hell, my favorite customers were the big, scary-looking bikers, with their leather jackets, grease-stained jeans and ZZ Top beards. They were always nice, well-mannered, treated me like a fellow human being. The so-called "decent" people wearing conservative clothing were the ones who treated me like scum on their shoes and more often than not were shoplifters and scammers.

99 percent of us are trying to do damage control over the 1 percenters. When we are out for a ride, we are having fun. Fun having people don't usually go nutz because something scanned wrong, we usually mock the person who grabbed the wrong bottle of water. (we also tip at least 30 percent and the guy who just drinks coffee leaves 5 bucks.)

As to the bed...15 pillows? My cats would love it and I'd be sleeping on the couch.

[blas]

There's a percentage of guys around here who do that stupid Jersey Shore thing, only since it's Wisconsin, they're obviously quite more fair skinned and have lighter hair (though some of them do tan).

Imagine seeing all different sized clones of these guys, same tattoos, same Ed Hardy and Affliction sparkly shirts (the only guy who should sparkle should be Edward. Dammit), hair pokier than porcupines, huge bulging muscles and maybe between all of them, an IQ of about 60.

And don't ask about the female counterparts. Gross.

[Kristev]

Personally, I prefer guys in leather jackets and motorcycle boots over pompous, arrogant spoiled richy-rich types. The bikers just don't tend to like me.