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It's hard to say.
I remember a time when my managers threw a small group of teenaged boys out of the store for extremely rude and disrespectful behavior (whistling at one of the female employees, swearing at a manager, among other things).
The very next day, they came back to our store. The security guard recognized them and refused to let them in.
To anybody who happened to see it, it might have looked like the boys were being turned away for no apparent reason.
(Our security guard actually made a point of telling the boys why they weren't being let in, so I'm hoping that anybody who witnessed it understood that it wasn't without cause.)
The OP stated that when he walked in, this man and his two sons were already standing at one of the registers, after which they went to the back of the line to wait.
A possibility occurs to me :
If this man had been thrown out of the restaurant before, for a legitimate reason . . . He might have been standing at the register this time because he wanted to apologize for what happened previously.
It's possible that the manager refused to accept his apology and ordered him to leave the restaurant, and the OP walked in just after that occurred.
The man might have then decided that, rather than leave, he would simply stand in line, perhaps hoping that the manager wouldn't make a further issue of it.
The manager might simply not have noticed that the man didn't leave the restaurant until he reached the counter again. Or, if he did notice, the manager might have chosen to say nothing in the hopes that the man would change his mind and leave instead of pressing the situation.
One thing about this :
Now, I do understand that different people react to situations in very different ways, but . . .
It seems to me that if this man really hadn't done anything wrong, then his reaction to being instructed to leave would have likely been one of confusion - asking "What's the problem? What did I do?" - or perhaps anger.
The OP didn't mention that the man said anything other than that "Please!" before leaving . . .
Honestly, that does not sound to me like the behavior of a man who has done absolutely nothing wrong. That sounds more like the behavior of a man who did do something wrong and is asking to be given a break.
Of course, I wasn't there. And a person's body language - which the OP had the opportunity to see, and I didn't - can convey a lot.
I'm really not trying to draw any conclusions here. I'm just saying that it doesn't really sound right to me . . .
It's hard to say.
I'm certainly not saying that this couldn't have been a case of racism. I'm not saying that it wasn't likely to be . . . I'm just saying that there are other possible explanations, and there could be a lot that we don't know about this situation.
I remember a time when my managers threw a small group of teenaged boys out of the store for extremely rude and disrespectful behavior (whistling at one of the female employees, swearing at a manager, among other things).
The very next day, they came back to our store. The security guard recognized them and refused to let them in.
To anybody who happened to see it, it might have looked like the boys were being turned away for no apparent reason.
(Our security guard actually made a point of telling the boys why they weren't being let in, so I'm hoping that anybody who witnessed it understood that it wasn't without cause.)
Quoth mattm04
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Quoth fireheart17
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A possibility occurs to me :
If this man had been thrown out of the restaurant before, for a legitimate reason . . . He might have been standing at the register this time because he wanted to apologize for what happened previously.
It's possible that the manager refused to accept his apology and ordered him to leave the restaurant, and the OP walked in just after that occurred.
The man might have then decided that, rather than leave, he would simply stand in line, perhaps hoping that the manager wouldn't make a further issue of it.
The manager might simply not have noticed that the man didn't leave the restaurant until he reached the counter again. Or, if he did notice, the manager might have chosen to say nothing in the hopes that the man would change his mind and leave instead of pressing the situation.
One thing about this :
Quoth Ben_Who
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It seems to me that if this man really hadn't done anything wrong, then his reaction to being instructed to leave would have likely been one of confusion - asking "What's the problem? What did I do?" - or perhaps anger.
The OP didn't mention that the man said anything other than that "Please!" before leaving . . .
Honestly, that does not sound to me like the behavior of a man who has done absolutely nothing wrong. That sounds more like the behavior of a man who did do something wrong and is asking to be given a break.
Of course, I wasn't there. And a person's body language - which the OP had the opportunity to see, and I didn't - can convey a lot.
I'm really not trying to draw any conclusions here. I'm just saying that it doesn't really sound right to me . . .
It's hard to say.
I'm certainly not saying that this couldn't have been a case of racism. I'm not saying that it wasn't likely to be . . . I'm just saying that there are other possible explanations, and there could be a lot that we don't know about this situation.
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