All I can say is O_o

[moogie]

I work at a small and very busy convenience store 2nd and 3rd shifts, where I am alone 90 % of the time. One night I got a rush and had about 25 people in the store shopping. I was dealing with the line, trying to ring people as quickly as possible. In walks a regular customer, he always takes at least 15 minutes to decide which lottery tickets he would like while standing at the front of the register blocking other customers from checking out. So tonight, being that there are so many people in line behind him, I decided to ring the next person with one hand and get all his 6763837 tickets he's requesting extremely slowly with the other hand, and here is what follows.

SC: you know
ME: again

SC: I can't believe you!
ME: I'm sorry?
SC: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! How dare you treat me like this?!
ME: What did I do?
SC: I think my skin just changed color.
ME: ... *jaw drops*
SC: Why would you do that to me?
ME: Sir, I am sorry, I was just trying to get everyone taken care of as quickly and efficiently as..
SC: *interrupts* I KNOW what you were just trying to do. *gives me evil death stare*


He then proceeds to rip the lotto tickets from my hand and throws the money on the counter and walks out.
Skip forward to the next day, He comes in smiles at me and acts as though nothing happened.....


*sigh*
This happened on one of my first days on the job. I thought I was going to cry.

[ralerin]

What in the fudgecakes. O_o

[Chazzie]

Wait, wait, hold on, WHAT?

Did he just pull the race card by thinking you were pretending he was a different race??

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

[GiftShopGirl]

SC: I think my skin just changed color.

Is he a chameleon?

[Megg]

The phrase "argle bargle" is seriously all that comes to mind. I mean ... ?

[Thatgirl71]

What the frack?? Seriously, who is he? Sybill? Talk about personality change.

[Fire_on_High]

What a freak...I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

BTW...love your avatar!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Well, wasn't that...special.

That was a new way to play the race card.

[chainedbarista]

i think lotteries do something to customer brains that create some sort of alternate logic. changed color; i have to say that that is a unique take on the race card.

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[stucksb]

Sadly, I've heard this one a bit having grown up in the rural south. If a white person wasn't given the full respect they think they deserved then said individual would claim their skin must've changed to be treated like that.

My family's response was always

Don't know if this is applicable to your psycho, just what came to mind when I read the story.

[smileyeagle1021]

ok... you win... that is the best race/gender/orientation card I've ever seen (it's so good I'm even saying it's better than cards that it doesn't even really compete against )

Worst I've gotten was someone playing the gay card because I told them that they would need a room with two queen size beds, and obviously I was trying to break up their relationship, blah blah blah... you know, the fact that two queen size beds was the only room I had available obviously had nothing to do with it

[Andara Bledin]

Worst I've gotten was someone playing the gay card because I told them that they would need a room with two queen size beds, and obviously I was trying to break up their relationship, blah blah blah...

Your own orientation aside, what's wrong with then sharing a queen size bed?

Nekojin & I are not small people, and we're doing just fine sharing a queen bed at a hotel this weekend.

^-.-^

[NateTheChops]

Wow. All I can say is wow.

Moogle you may have wormed your way into my heart here. I've been alone in my store before and it's never fun. I hope he's the worse customer you have for a while.

[moogie]

Wow. All I can say is wow.

Moogle you may have wormed your way into my heart here. I've been alone in my store before and it's never fun. I hope he's the worse customer you have for a while.

Thanks, I was hoping so too, but it seems that as it gets warmer here, I'm getting more and more idiots in the store every day.

[AccountingDrone]

Your own orientation aside, what's wrong with then sharing a queen size bed?

Nekojin & I are not small people, and we're doing just fine sharing a queen bed at a hotel this weekend.

^-.-^

hubby and i often get a room with 2 doubles so we can each flake out in bed without bothering each other [i get to be a really restless sleeper if i am not in my own bed and i thrash around like a school of shark in a chum field]