I'm visiting my friend at 711 yesterday when some customer decides to throw a hissy fit. He had $19 worth of lottery winnings to redeem and said he wanted $5 back and to spend the rest on more tickets. My friend asked which tickets he wanted and the guy began naming off each one he wanted. The total came out to $19. When he wasn't handed a $5 bill alongside his $19 in ticket, things got fun.
My friend explains to him that he just rang him up for what he asked for but the guy won't hear it. He says it's my friend's job to keep track, that he should have said something. It might have been courteous to say something but it's definitely not his responsibility. The guy says he would have been keeping track if he had a computer (computers and cash registers are synonymous now), to which I wonder who needs a computer to count to 19 by 1s and 2s?
Well the guy starts dropping all sorts of foul words and making this convulsing clench that was supposed to let everyone know just how much rage was bottled inside him. He was about 5'9" and 155lbs. He would have gotten stomped by either me, my friend or the large man standing behind him in line if he had made any kind of move. So instead he just screamed and swore in front of young children for 5 minutes until threatening my friend and leaving.
How insecure does someone have to be to pick a fight with a 711 clerk over their own mistake?
It reminds me of a time I was at a White Hen downtown this year. A white guy comes in with missing teeth and a wifebeater and makes a beeline for the door that says "Employees only". The hispanic woman behind the counter calls out to him to stop. His face immediately gives away that he was up to something but he's feelin ballsy so he says "Oh I was just using the bathroom".
Well, friend, White Hens don't have public bathrooms. And if one of them decides to do so they're surely not going to keep it behind a door that says 'Employees only'. So the lady tells him no dice but he's relentless. "Naw, you don't understand. I really have to go. Like I REALLY have to go" He leans and twists as he says it like he's a small child.
The lady doesn't buy it though and tells him to go to the fire department around the corner, that they'll let him use their bathroom. This exchange continued for about thirty seconds until the guy decide to start calling the woman a dumb spic and all sorts of similarly witty retorts.
It really irritates me to know that no matter how dumb that slob is, he's still convinced in his mind that he's better than people that aren't white.
