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A Crazy Or Embarrassing Situation In A Store?

I had two last night!
I went grocery shopping and as I went through the aisles I seem to be trailing this older couple with their grand kid. The woman was constantly talking and complaining and as she went on and on the complaining became quite bizarre, from her claims that the vegetables were stacked oddly and why this was close to that etc. The man looked weary and silent so I imagine this is a norm for him. (Poor guy.) I end up behind them at checkout. Common practice is to put the bar between orders and put your items on the belt. I took a tiny section and had some milk and other frozen items when suddenly she whirls around on me, inches from me and snarls, we are still loading items! and proceeds with two hands to shove my stuff to the edge until they are almost falling off! The cashier gives me a WTF look that I must have had on my own face, but instead of coming back at her I kept my mouth shut and calmly waited for space to put up more items. I don't like drama and clearly the woman has mental health issues and why make it worse for her husband and grand kid? It's a good thing I had just been boxing and cleared out the negative cobwebs.

The embarrassing one. I got my coffee after and this guy smiled at me so I smiled back thinking he was flirting. Then he says you look familiar. I say you too and we find out we went to school together. Lamented a bit about how getting older is tough. He said I still looked the same. (Flatterer haha) so I walk out feeling great, get in my car and see that the wind had blown my hair 4 different directions and I must have looked crazy. Vanity never wins! 😁🤣
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good of you for being the bigger person. next time she may not be so lucky. lol why cant folks just take their damn meds. LOL
ravenwind43 · 51-55, F
@MayorOfCrushtown Right!!! The husband had this look of, "the police are getting called again," if there is such a look lol.
@ravenwind43 he's probably accustomed to it. LOL
ravenwind43 · 51-55, F
@MayorOfCrushtown Yes! lol. I didn't add to my post that when I was in the car and leaving she was walking down the row of carts looking for quarters!
@ravenwind43 having worked in retail for awhile, sometimes the toughest thing to do is smile and remain calm while some nut rages on you. and i have learned, the longer you stay calm, the madder they get. LOL we had a lady one night rage at one of my coworkers constantly for about 15 minutes, swearing, etc. she stepped over the line and dropped the N bomb and my "former co-worker" pulled off her name badge, quit, and whipped that ladys ass in the parking lot. a person can only take so much.
ravenwind43 · 51-55, F
@MayorOfCrushtown I usually try to be extra nice to retail people when I can because of the nonsense they up with...🙂