At the gas station, we had this black customer who REFUSED to let us hand him his change back. He was an odd duck, he took forever to get gas and forever to swagger in, and always took forever picking what he wanted. It made no sense because I ended up touching his money anyway.
When I worked day shift in the beginning of my stint there and I saw him pulling the "NO NO, put it on the counter!" routine with my manager and the assistant manager, I thought HE was being racist and refusing to take money from Native Americans. He once overheard my manager telling a customer that I'm also part Native, so I figured that's why he didn't want my money either. Naturally, I grew to hate him for being such a racist jackass himself (I'm not enough Native to count, but just the thought itself irks me. My manager and the asst manager were NOT dirty people).
Come to find out this man had OCD really, really bad. He had to pump exactly the same amount of gas each time, he had to check his oil dipstick TWICE, he had to wash his windshield THREE times, and he had to pick the 4th pop back in the cooler (as in the 4th row). He was also germaphobic, so it didn't even matter the race of the cashier.
I felt like an ass for assuming.
When I worked day shift in the beginning of my stint there and I saw him pulling the "NO NO, put it on the counter!" routine with my manager and the assistant manager, I thought HE was being racist and refusing to take money from Native Americans. He once overheard my manager telling a customer that I'm also part Native, so I figured that's why he didn't want my money either. Naturally, I grew to hate him for being such a racist jackass himself (I'm not enough Native to count, but just the thought itself irks me. My manager and the asst manager were NOT dirty people).
Come to find out this man had OCD really, really bad. He had to pump exactly the same amount of gas each time, he had to check his oil dipstick TWICE, he had to wash his windshield THREE times, and he had to pick the 4th pop back in the cooler (as in the 4th row). He was also germaphobic, so it didn't even matter the race of the cashier.
I felt like an ass for assuming.
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