posted on August 29, 2001 01:35:34 PM new
Okay, am I just having a bad PMS day or what?
I'm in line to buy a whole $5 worth of lotto tickets, something I haven't done in about 5 years because the pot is over $100 million. I also have a roll of toilet paper and a bottle of hand soap as well. I stood and waited for a few minutes, someone said they'd be right there, then about 2 more minutes goes buy and an older gentleman asks me if anyone knows I'm here. I said yes, so he starts looking for the bell, which is waaaay on the other side of the counter. A clerk sees us trying to reach it and says I'll be right there.
She comes over and I tell her I want the $5 worth of tickets and if there was any chance I could pay for these two other items at the same time. (Mind you, there were two other lines open, both had about 4 people each in line waiting, so I wasn't looking forward to waiting in those lines). She looks behind me and sees two other people waiting for tickets and tells me no, but if I was the only one she wouldn't normally have a problem doing that. I say okay, no prob, but I better not see anybody else buy anything at this counter other than lotto tickets, in a joking kind of manner, but also stern enough to let her know I'm going to be watching. The guy behind me is holding a newspaper!
Yup, you guessed it she let him buy his paper. She then waits on the next girl and then goes to another register and opens it, well I make a beeline for her and ask "how come that guy got to buy a paper?" She looks at me and says "I don't want to argue". I tell her, "I don't either, but if you tell me I can't purchase anything other than lotto, then I think that should be true for others waiting in that same line". She practically throws my change and receipt at me and says quite nastily, "have a nice day", I said "you too", and she said really snotty like "I will". What a bit(*&%$^.
Would you call her boss or not? I know it seems really really petty and normally I wouldn't even care, but she just rubbed me the wrong way today.
posted on August 29, 2001 01:57:06 PM new
I know you're angry, and rightfully so. But, I wouldn't call. It just doesn't seem right to me to mess with someone's livlihood, just because they were rude and ticked me off. Besides, the way things are nowadays, you'd be spending all your time on the phone...
True about the phone thing, and I suppose about not messing around with her livlihood, but darn it, life would be so much nicer if people like her were nicer. She always has had a bit of an attitude, guess I will just buy my groceries elsewhere. This store was getting too expensive anyway, the larger stores are hurting their business.
I actually thought of that and I figured, knowing myself, I wouldn't want to and when I wrote the post I really really really wanted to, but I've calmed down a bit now, so I probably won't, but she deserves it.
posted on August 29, 2001 02:05:02 PM new
Could be that she let him buy the paper cause he is a regular...if he had the exact change she probably didn't ring it up until later....I can certainly understand your distress....if you don't shop there regularly
let it go! If you do, buy her a sympathy card...I'm sorry (inside) you were sooo rude!!
I actually like your idea alot! I'm so vindictive, I've got to cut that out!
She did tell me he comes in everyday and buys his paper and his lotto and his cigarettes, so he is a regular, but so am I, every week I buy my food there, which is what this place is a grocery store, not a convenience store afterall.
Oh well, I need a life, I think I'll go golfing tonight, take some of that aggression out on the ball and my DH! He'll just love that!
posted on August 29, 2001 02:11:23 PM new
It could very well be that you yourself precipitated her behavior. Even though your comment was made in what *you* perceived as a "joking" manner, it may have ticked her off and prompted her to allow the man behind you to buy the newspaper as well as the lotto tickets. People tend to get annoyed when warned not to do something they've not even done yet (& perhaps not thought of doing at all). Hence the "poke" in your eye.
posted on August 29, 2001 02:15:49 PM new
bunnicula:
I hate to admit I thought of that too, but it was more enjoyable for me to be mad at her for her attitude, rather than mine. You know how we humans get.
Sadie:
As for the windmills, I can't putt putt to save my life, I like the real deal! I'm just now into the 90's which is very exciting for me.
edited because either AW no longer allows HTML or I'm an idiot, either way, I still had to edit. ;(
[ edited by flynn on Aug 29, 2001 02:17 PM ]
posted on August 29, 2001 02:30:59 PM new
Yes your comment may have prompted her to do that just to spite you.
Once I was behind this old lady in Sarasota who had the sequins all over /butterfly glasses and the frufru dog on her arm. She was just making a mess of herself with the clerk demanding a gulf view and a suite and,and,and...with a look down your nose attitude also. When she finally ran down he said we have a small double on the bay side
that's it if you want it. She complained bitterly but took it.
When I got to him next and he asked what we needed I said room for two whatever you have.
If you have a choice give me the cheaper one.
He said this is our cheapest rate and quoted what I thought was a good price for Sarasota and I said fine thanks.
We went up and the bell hop let us in and it was -- A suite high on the gulf side with everything she asked for at the economy rate.
He just wouldn't give it to a snot - and thought it would be funny when we walked in as we were obviously evesdropping...
posted on August 29, 2001 03:02:18 PM new
Great story, gravid.
I had a similar thing happen in Las Vegas. A guy in front of us in line was demanding to get into a show for a cheaper rate and get free drinks, had some kind of coupon or something, but was being a real jerk about it. The ticket person was very polite and professional but didn't let him have the "deal." The guy's behavior was so bad that when it was my turn to buy tickets I said to the ticket person, "Two please, and we'll pay for ours!" Well, that nice ticket person gave us the discounted rate and free drinks!
posted on August 29, 2001 03:20:48 PM new
Your crucial mistake: expecting fair and equal treatment from some lackey.
They don't care. The sooner you accept this, the less indignant you're likely to become. It's the condition of our nation, actually. Nobody who's paid to provide service really cares, unless perhaps they are the owner of the company or agency that provides it.
Your story reminded me of an incident at a rather large book sale I attended last year. I got there early, got a good parking space, and was dismayed that about an hour later, after all the parking spaces were gone and I returned to my car to get something, a rent-a-cop bozo hired by the folks running the sale swooped down on me and made me move my car, claiming that parking there was prohibited.
So move the car I did. And lucky me, I walked back from the distant lot in which I'd been forced to move to just in time to see some latecomer pull into the space I'd vacated -- as the rent-a-cop stood twenty feet away jabbering with an acquaintance. The guy who pulled into the space got out, locked his car and walked away; meanwhile I approached rent-a-cop and demanded to know why the newcomer was allowed to park there and not me.
"I didn't see him pull in," rent-a-cop replied, "and he's gone now so there's nothing I can do."
I suppose I could have called his superior, or complained to the people managing the sale, but nobody would have cared. Instead I told him he was a f**ing ***hole and walked away. At the very least it made me feel better.
posted on August 29, 2001 07:54:18 PM new
As an employer, I would appreciate knowing how my employees are treating the customers. It is frustrating after you finally catch a clerk in the act that the customers come up and tell you what that clerk did to them.
Beware, however, she can get revenge if she wants. Don't buy any chipped ham from her - she just might roll it ... or break your eggs ...
posted on August 30, 2001 03:06:08 AM new
Things might improve, who knows, if those hardworking people didn't have to know that the world is full of jerks who think of them as lackeys.
posted on August 30, 2001 05:51:44 AM new
A police officer one stopped me and as he was writing out my measly ticket, he almost was hit by several speeding cars. I asked him why he didn't go after those cars and he said it was because he had me already and didn't need to break his neck for more.
So, it's not only for the minimum wage workers of this world. Remember, without them we'd have no fast food, no convenience stores and no one to check us out in the supermarket.
I've found rudeness to be everywhere. It's a sign of the times.
As long as they act like lackeys, I'll call them lackeys. If they want respect, let them earn it by doing their job right.
Btw, the indirect insults are getting tiresome. If you want to call me a jerk, at least risk a warning to do it -- not that there's a high degree of risk anyway.
posted on August 30, 2001 04:16:05 PM new
Do you imagine that you are the only person in the world who goes around refering to other people as lackeys?
posted on August 30, 2001 05:54:42 PM new
It's inaccurate anyway. A person who is a lackey is there to serve by definition; if this person serves inadequately then she cannot properly be called a lackey.
posted on August 30, 2001 06:25:55 PM newHi Spaz Still grinning over your wonderful posts on August 21..."non carberundum illegetimi!" or something close to that...by the way I also admired your standing up for Toke. Shall we all get together at Brimfield...name the time and place!!
Don't buy any chipped ham from her - she just might roll it ... or break your eggs ...
