I demand you smile! It's Christmas!!

[Sapphire Silk]

Unbelievable.

This bitch needed to have been told, "Would Jesus have made such a mess and asked someone else to clean it up?

[Sheldonrs]

I'm pretty sure it's ok to kick women in the stomach for that.

[Monterey Jack]

Who DOES stuff like that???

People who get off on making "the little people" do degrading tasks, just because they can. Either that, or they have to take shit from their bosses, so they have to pass the buck and make other people miserable in retaliation, and pick people in the service industry because they can't say anything back to them. Make any of these middle-aged twats wait tables or serve behind a bar for even one night, and I'm sure they would appreciate what it's like to be on the receiving end.

[LillFilly]

Gods, I have no clue what goes through the heads of some people anymore!

[Tama]

Oh, I know.

Me, I, number one, my, me, my

[protege]

And if anyone told me, "Smile...it's CHRISTMAS!" or something around that line, they get their picture on the BANNED list.

This past Christmas, if someone told me to "smile" I'd probably have told them to fuck off. Why? Well, my grandmother--my last living grandparent BTW--had died around Thanksgiving, and I was in no mood to deal with douchebags

[emax4]

As I'm reading this I put myself in the OP's place, and imagined myself taking both ends of the clean up rag, winding it up, and snapping the SC in the face.

[Jay 2K Winger]

As I'm reading this I put myself in the OP's place, and imagined myself taking both ends of the clean up rag, winding it up, and snapping the SC in the face.

That's gonna make a blister!

[Marmalady]

Who DOES stuff like that???

Probably the same sort of person who thinks it's OK to pick their nose in the store bathrooms and wipe the contents over the cubicle walls and doors.

Three different days in the week before Christmas I had to clean that up. Amazing what people will do if they don't expect to have to clear up after themselves.

[Eisa]

Wow, that's absolutely disgusting.

[notalwaysright]

Probably the same sort of person who thinks it's OK to pick their nose in the store bathrooms and wipe the contents over the cubicle walls and doors.

I would say it would be the same if said nose-picker wiped the boogers all over something other people had to touch, like a card reader at a checkout. (I know your example is gross, but customers don't have to touch the walls of a bathroom in the same way as they would a table at a pub) Then was all smug when the cashier was all and said, "oh, I guess you'll have to clean this up."

I've found a big difference between the people who do stuff while no one is looking and at least try to act sorry if they are caught, and the ones who either seek out someone to torture or if caught, are aggressive. Like the other day there was this lady with rolled remnants of fabric... I was cutting her fabric and saw her tearing open the remnants to "see how big" they were. I said "I'll cut the tape for you, please don't tear them." She said, "well I'm not messing them up" and tore the rest open and I don't think bought any.

[Captain Trips]

Another in the "can't you take a joke" crowd.

"Can't you take a joke?"
"I was just kidding."
"Suck it up, man."
And variations on the above: I have finally realized what these phrases really mean: "Okay, I was wrong to do/say what I did. But there's no way in hell I'm going to apologize for it."

[Jay 2K Winger]

Another in the "can't you take a joke" crowd.

"Can't you take a joke?"
"I was just kidding."
"Suck it up, man."
And variations on the above: I have finally realized what these phrases really mean: "Okay, I was wrong to do/say what I did. But there's no way in hell I'm going to apologize for it."

Exactly. In the vernacular of the current generation, it's "sorry not sorry." (A phrase I despise.)

[Seshat]

"no offence meant" means "I know it's offensive but I'm trying to make it hard for you to express your offence".

[XCashier]

Another in the "can't you take a joke" crowd.

"Can't you take a joke?"
"I was just kidding."
"Suck it up, man."
And variations on the above: I have finally realized what these phrases really mean: "Okay, I was wrong to do/say what I did. But there's no way in hell I'm going to apologize for it."

Yep, and they're all stock phrases of bullies trying to place the blame on the victim. It's been going on for millennia. Makes you wish they'd come up with something more original.