This is the thanks I get for helping you?!

[BowserKoopa1]

I was checking out a customer when I scanned an item with a barcode that would not scan for some reason. Then I notice the box its in is not taped and sealed, so I open it to just to make sure nothing else is in there. The item looks dirty.
SC: Hey, its dirty. It doesn't even look brand new.
Me: Would you like to get another one?
SC: Would you like me to?
Me: Um, that's up to you, sir.
SC (giving me a look): I'll go pick out another one.
Me: Would you like me to call someone over to assist you, sir?
No response. so I repeat myself. He ignores me and then goes over to the appropriate aisle.
He comes back 2 minutes later and goes to the cashier across from me (we both had no one in our lanes) and checks out. He has a frown on his face. As he leaves, I apologize for any confusion and tell him that I was just trying to help him. He ignores me and leaves. Fucking jerkoff.
I swear, sometimes I feel I'm just busting my ass to help these assholes, and then he acts that way when I offer to get him some help. When I told 1of my coworkers about the story, she said that he may have had something to hide when I looked inside the box.

[depechemodefan]

Probably he didn't know the item was dirty and when you opened up the box he thought, "those bastards were going to sell my a dirty item!" He won't think that it was'nt on purpose.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, you know how it is. No good deed goes unpunished.

[flutes_and_fabric]

when people come through our lanes with sewing boxes or baskets we're required to look in them. More than once a day we get someone trying to smuggle something through. They always just say, "oops, must have forgotten that." Sometimes they get mad. Some people like to keep their fabric in the basket and we have to tell them to please put it on the counter. A lot of times I'll find stuff hiding in the folds of the fabric.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

People who have made an honest error are seldom mad.

You can usualy gauge someone's guilt by how angry they get.

[simplyanother]

when people come through our lanes with sewing boxes or baskets we're required to look in them. More than once a day we get someone trying to smuggle something through. They always just say, "oops, must have forgotten that." Sometimes they get mad. Some people like to keep their fabric in the basket and we have to tell them to please put it on the counter. A lot of times I'll find stuff hiding in the folds of the fabric.

We get that too. We get people who buy little wooden boxes that feel like nothing--like 30 at a time. And I have to open each of the 30 boxes to make sure they haven't stuffed something in them.

Like the cross stitch thread I found.."oh, I don't know how that got there...". Boxes with cross stitch thread in it feels the same weight as the empty ones.

Or the woman who was buying a decorative box--I think it was a treasure chest looking thing--covered in brown leatherlike stuff. She wanted me to just scan the bottom of the box while she held it. I told her I had to actually handle the item...and lo and behold I get it, open it up and the damned thing was packed full of various crafty bits and baubles. I asked her if she wanted them....she said something like "I forgot they were in there" or "I changed my mind" or both.

Back to the OP, some folks are just assholes.