Tales from the retail world...

[CptFarlow]

Been in retail for a bit over a year now, but the stories are sooo numerous, especially from working at Best Buy for a year. First story is from Sam's Club as a cashier.

It was a Sunday, pretty busy, but average day. The big rule at Sam's is the "always transfer" from one cart to another, while scannin, to check for shrink. One lady came to me with a flat cart with 9 bags of cat and dog food. It was in three stacks of 3 each. When I went to go move one, she started telling me that she was in a rush, I should'nt move it, etc. So I step around her and lift the first bag off each pile and find about 4 or 5 DVDs in between the bags, totalling about 40-50 DVDs. I asked her, "Oh, you want me to ring these up to?" with a smirk. I could see that she was furious with me, but she bought everything and I saw her walk straight over to returns, where she then denied that she hid them. She said she "accidently" bought 40 DVDs. They arrested her, I laughed, good times.
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This one is from Best Buy doing Computer Sales. One day, a monday I believe, a woman comes in and after I contact her, she explains she wants a laptop, I start the usual routine, finding the right one for her, blah blah blah, and finally I have almost made the sale. She is actually getting everything, tons of accesories, Service Plan, Geek Squad In-Home Service, etc. A $1200 laptop with $2000 in accesories. The minute I tell her I am going to get the laptop for her so she can pay, (note this is after talking to her for 1.5 hours) she whips out an Office Depot ad and asks if she can get this 10% off deal. I said, "Sure, we can match any competitor's coupon." She then says, "Competitor? I thought this was Office Depot?!"

Turns out she did think she was in Office Depot the whole time. (They had just opened one in the same strip mall a week earlier, I guess she was going there for the opening sale. When she realized her mistake, she said sorry, left the cart, and walked out. Never saw her again. It didn't really bother me, I didn't get commision anyways.
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Last story for tonight. This one at Best Buy as a Geek Squad Agent. It was a normal Saturday, I believe. I saw a guy walking up to the counter with his PC, so I went over and greeted him. I soon learned that he wanted us to clean off his PC of any spyware/adware, viruses, etc. I wanted to make sure his machine would boot, so I propped it up right behind the counter and plugged it in. Now note at this time, a lot of people are out walking around, talking the techs, etc. While the computer was booting, which took a few minutes, I was starting/stopping scans on other computers on the bench, and when I notice his machine is booted up, I look up at his desktop to see a rather hot chick getting double-teamed by two guys in a backyard. My hand screamed for the power button and the monitor was blank. Normally I wouldn't have cared, a lot of guys (and girls) have pr0n on their computers, but with kids and families around, ah you get it.

I took the computer into the back and changed the wallpaper, then went back to talk to the guy. I asked him why he didn't say anything and he explained that he "didn't think it was important." That was a good laugh.
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Okay, last one. One day I got a woman who wanted some data backed up. I told her we would be happy to do that, and told he to bring in her computer whenever she wanted it done. She said it was in her car, so she went out and came back with a 17" Dell monitor. This is what happens next:

Me: Well, you didn't need to bring the monitor, we have them here.
Her: I brought the computer, that what this is.
Me: No, that just displays the imformation, like a TV. All your data is on another peice of hardware called a PC. (Point to the 20 towers sitting on the bench.)
Her: No, my information is in here! :oints to monitor:: I've seen it!

I excused myself, then laughed till I cried in the breakroom for a few minutes, then finally got her set up with In-Home Geek Squad after convincing her she doesn't know squat about computers.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: MaverickBP

Originally posted by: Shanteli

Originally posted by: MaverickBP

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: MaverickBP

Originally posted by: Shanteli
When I was in HS working at EB I had some lady and her son come in wanting to buy SimCity2000...she whipped out her checkbook and I had to tell her we required a check guarantee card or a card with a visa logo on it...she glared at me and threw her cards in my general direction on the counter. I just did the whole pissed-off stare at her head while she was looking down filling out her check. After she was done I had to write some numbers down on the check while her son started whispering something to the mother. Out of the blue she snatched the check out of my hand, ripped it up in front of me and went off

Lady = "Is that how you treat a customer" rant.

I stood there pleading ignorance because I actually didn't do or say anything...if I stare or glare there is nothing really legally wrong with that. Anyway...in the middle of the mother's rant the kid interjected

Kid = "yeah you were looking at my mom all funny"

Me = "And you can just shut your face...you're not even tall enough to look over the counter so what do you know?" (11 years old or so).

Kid = "Screw you"

Lady = "Don't talk to my son"

So the mom grabs the kids hand and starts walking towards the exit.
Kid turns and as a last word says

Kid = "Go back to China"

Interesting thing is that he and his mother were obviously not white...if I had to guess it would be Indonesian or Burmese...ironic...but yes he got lucky...I am Chinese

Me = "What? Fck you! Get your poor @ss back on a boat and back to your island country".

Lady turns around in fury and starts yelling in some foreign language while pointing at me.

I jump the counter and get in her face and start yelling right back.

Me = "What you saying you turkey btch...etc. etc."

I was working in the mall so yeah it started a huge scene...and I guess my manager saved the day because he saw the crowd while walking back from lunch and ran over to split me and the mother apart. The mom was pretty pissed and just walked away. I got sent home for the day...but before that I went through the mall hunting for that lady. Thinking back it was good that I didn't find her cuz I woulda beat the sh1t out of her kid...I was so damn pissed...and that would have been bad...juvenile court system and everything. Retail blows.

your talking about how you wanted to beat a lady and beat some little 11 year olds ass? you can be banned now

They deserve it.

if there was ever an excuse to beat a woman or a little kid..that sure as hell aint it

obviously you are white. Direct racial comments = @ss kicking....I don't care what the circumstance. I had no beef with the lady although I prob would have pushed her aside to get to the kid, but the kid needed to be taught a lesson. If not by me then by someone else in the near future. I would have just beat him...when he turns 16 and tells the wrong black guy to "go back to africa" he'll end up more than just brusied up so I would have been doing him a favor.

lol so ud push the adult aside and whoop a childs ass...pathetic

and yes i am white. your point? does that mean i know nothing of racialism? i grew up in compten(sp?) and englewood. you try being white and living there. i know more about racism then you'll get from watching your saturday morning cartoons kid.

Racism. Compton. Inglewood.

You go to Compton High School, too?

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: Phoenix15

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
When I was a teenager I worked at an Acme store and I had an old lady sh!t at my register.. literally sh!t on the floor.

I worked at a Wal Mart during college. I was walking out of the bathrooms in the back of the store when this HAAWWWWWWTTTT cashier came walking up rapidly towards the bathroom. I always flirted with her and was about to start some game when RECCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH she PUKED all over the floor and the front of the milk cooler. She had a stomach virus and the asshole manager wouldn't ler her leave. She was SO embarrased. It all worked out in the end as we got married Sept 18th last year. :thumbsup:

PICS.

 

[thraashman]

I was working at REI. I'd been there only about a week and we had just gotten some ice and snow. A customer comes up to me with two pairs of gloves and asks me what would be the best way to keep her hands warm. She said what, not which, so I (being a smartass) say dip em in gasoline and light em on fire, I can guarantee they'll never be warmer..... I was fired a week later and they sited that as the reason. Apparantly REI customers have no sense of humor.

Working at CompUSA a co-worker was walking down an aisle in his bright yellow shirt with nametag on and a customer stops him and asks "do you work here". He lifts his nametag to look at it, says nope, and keeps walking.

I was cashiering at a store and a after I finish with one customer, she motions me to move a little closer. She then reaches out and gives a tug on my goatee (which at the time was about 4 inches long and a natural bright red), says ok it's real, and leaves. The next customer looks at me and says "don't worry, I won't pull on your beard".

Working at a grocery store when I was 16. On Easter of all days a guy loads up a couple of hand baskets full of cigarrette cartons and bolts out the door. A customer in another line says "I'll go get his license plate". Then walks out and jumps in the car with him taking the two cases of beer he had yet to pay for with him.

Working at same grocery store as above. One of my co-workers who'd been in the store forever and would never get fired was having a bad day. When he had bad days he took it out on everyone, including customers and their groceries. So he'd intentionally damage product. I'm bagging for him and he hurled a can at the backstop really hard to dent it, throws it too high, and catches me in the balls. A couple of other guys cracked up at that. I just sorta crawled away and refused to ever bag for him again.

 

[MrBlahh]

Heres 2 more:

During Christmas I would help out in layaway. Basically my job was to put the items in boxes, put them into storage and then find them when the customer came back to pick them up. Me and another coworker would do our best to keep everything perfectly organized since it was much easier to find stuff that way. Half our day was spend cleaning up the previous days crappy job. Anyways, one day I get there at my usually time and one of the clerks at the desk tell me to run upstairs to help find a lost package that they have been trying to find for about an hour. I get up there and there are 3 managers, one of them being the lady killed by her husband (if you read my previous post), frantically trying to find the box. I get the number and in about 5 minutes I find the box that 3 managers couldnt find. One of the managers grabs it from me and goes downstairs. When I get down to the front desk I hear them patting themselves on the back for finding it. The cashier just looks at me and rolls her eyes. Im still not sure how they couldnt find it...it was just at the bottom of a stack.

One day while working outside one of the security guards was working by themselves that day and asked me to help him out. Some old guy was caught stealing something and he was going to confront him but needed me to help block the path. Well the old guy leaves the store and I go to get in his way and he sort of freakes out and throws the potted plant that is in his hand at me. It bounces off my chest and explodes all over me. Something about the entire thing struck me as being funny...I start laughing and the old guys runs off. The guard catches up to the guy and brings him in and on the way back gives me a dirty look.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: Nevada
i used to work at staples many moons ago. there was a customer that was pretty irrate with one of my co-workers. the guy began following my co-worker around the department and then purposely rammed his shopping cart into my co-worker.

I would have taken that shopping cart and tipped it over then blame it on the customer.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
At the store my family owned, it was a coffee business. This bitch ordered one thing then said she ordered something different when we gave it to her. She started yelling at my aunt and then threw the cup of coffee at my aunt. It took my 6'2'' uncle to restrain my aunt from hopping over the counter and kicking this womans ass.

Another time and a different woman, she shoplifted an item and my uncle had to chase her down and hold her till the cops came.

Dude, I would have paid to see your aunt whip some ASS. I would also pay to see your uncle sit on that shoplifter.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: RegularK
One time, one of the pharmacists was trying to explain to this lady why her prescription was a certain price. The customer got really mad and said that we were charging her more because she was black, and she continued to call the pharmacist racist. She kept digging and digging at the the pharmacist until the she took out her wallet and showed the lady a picture of her son--whose father was black.

HHAHAHAHA OMG. KEEP THEM COMING! We should write a book about this.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
At Blockbuster:

Me: You have a balance of $4.50
Customer: What!? That's impossible! I returned it on time!
Me: The computer shows this item being returned 3 days late.
Customer: Do you know who I am!? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!
Me: No, who the hell are you?
Customer: I want the number for your corporate office. I am going to call your CEO and have you and all your other managers fired.
Me: Here's the number, your total is $9 even.
Customer: Forget it, I'm never coming here again.


He sends his wife in now to pick up his movies. I still don't know who the hell this guy is. Spawn of Satan perhaps?

Good stuff sticking up.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: Shanteli
When I was in HS working at EB I had some lady and her son come in wanting to buy SimCity2000...she whipped out her checkbook and I had to tell her we required a check guarantee card or a card with a visa logo on it...she glared at me and threw her cards in my general direction on the counter. I just did the whole pissed-off stare at her head while she was looking down filling out her check. After she was done I had to write some numbers down on the check while her son started whispering something to the mother. Out of the blue she snatched the check out of my hand, ripped it up in front of me and went off

Lady = "Is that how you treat a customer" rant.

I stood there pleading ignorance because I actually didn't do or say anything...if I stare or glare there is nothing really legally wrong with that. Anyway...in the middle of the mother's rant the kid interjected

Kid = "yeah you were looking at my mom all funny"

Me = "And you can just shut your face...you're not even tall enough to look over the counter so what do you know?" (11 years old or so).

Kid = "Screw you"

Lady = "Don't talk to my son"

So the mom grabs the kids hand and starts walking towards the exit.
Kid turns and as a last word says

Kid = "Go back to China"

Interesting thing is that he and his mother were obviously not white...if I had to guess it would be Indonesian or Burmese...ironic...but yes he got lucky...I am Chinese

Me = "What? Fck you! Get your poor @ss back on a boat and back to your island country".

Lady turns around in fury and starts yelling in some foreign language while pointing at me.

I jump the counter and get in her face and start yelling right back.

Me = "What you saying you turkey btch...etc. etc."

I was working in the mall so yeah it started a huge scene...and I guess my manager saved the day because he saw the crowd while walking back from lunch and ran over to split me and the mother apart. The mom was pretty pissed and just walked away. I got sent home for the day...but before that I went through the mall hunting for that lady. Thinking back it was good that I didn't find her cuz I woulda beat the sh1t out of her kid...I was so damn pissed...and that would have been bad...juvenile court system and everything. Retail blows.

HAHAHA, I'd pay to see that happen!

 

[So]

Woah. Methinks someone has replied one too many times in a row (this from the guy who replies to his OWN posts no less )

 

[thraashman]

Working at a CompUSA it was New Year's Day and I was one of the many who had to open the store. The opening manager however didn't show up (we later found out he had gotten a DUI the previous night and was in a holding cell). So it's about 30 minutes after we're supposed to open, there's a large group of employees waiting by the exit door to get in and a large crowd of customers gathering waiting for us to open. This guy in his 50's or 60's comes up, peers into the store for a couple seconds through the glass entrance doors, then bangs on the doors hard enough to set the alarm off. After about 2 minutes the alarm shuts off (which is done remotely by the police once they dispatch someone), and the guy looks at the group of employees and asks us if that means the store is opening now. Several of us are just dumbfounded by this idiot, and one of my co-workers looks at him and says "yes sir, the manager snuck around back to turn off the alarm but just didn't wanna let any of the employees in yet." Then man then left and a few minutes later the cops did come by.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: Legendary
Once while working in a supermarket, I had the most useless annoying first class bitch of an old woman ever. She demanded, and would not leave, without double bagged groceries. HOWEVER, she simply would not allow me to place more than 2 items in her bags, no matter what the items were. Basically, I had to make 40 double bags for this woman because she would not leave without it. That only happened twice.
The next time she came in, she asked me if my lane was open. "No." Someone standing right behind her almost turned to another lane, but I looked right at her and said "You can come in though." The old lady just gave me a look then said "I'm talking to your supervisor."
My supervisor was standing right behind me, laughing, having served the old lady before.

HAHAHAH....man I'm loving this. And the funny part is when your supervisor agreed with you.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Dominionion
I believe everyone should spend some time in retail. It'll give you perspective and make you a better person. Now, when I see someone being impatient with a clerk or rude to a waiter/waitress, I think to myself "They didn't work retail". When you take crap, get spoken down to, and deal with people trying to scam you for chump change for hours on end, and then you have to turn to the next customer with a clean plate and give them cheerful service. It takes a high level of professionalism to achieve that. And if you haven't achieved that level (let alone had to try), don't berate someone for failing what you couldn't do.

QFFT!

 

[Aimster]

My father was a manager for a KFC back when he was finishing up school.

He told me how people would take shits all over the bathroom floors. They would wipe it on the walls and stuff.

Nobody would clean it so he had to do it himself. He needed to support his family.

Gross

 

[Chode Messiah]

I took 4 sh!ts todaY

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I was a Floor Manager at the local roller rink. I was downstairs keeping things running and helping out in whatever area needed it, skate counter, snack bar, et cetera. A woman came up to me with her son and said he had lost his money in an arcade game and wanted a refund. We didn't own the games, and the sign on the wall clearly stated that we were not responsible for money lost in the machines. The rink got a a per centage take of the quarters the machines took in. All machines had a number for the vending company that owned them, and people could call them for a refund.

I asked which machine, but her son wouldn't say anything or even meet my eyes. He just kept staring at the ground and kicking his feet. She said, "That one, over there on the end."

I told her to show me, so we walk over to the machine in question, junior in tow.

Me: "This machine right here?"

Her: "Yes."

Me: "The Star Wars arcade machine?"

Her: "Yes."

Me: "The Star Wars arcade machine with the tape across the door and an OUT OF ORDER sign stuck to the tape? (It was the old sit-down one, where you blow up the Death Star with an X-Wing)

Her, getting exasperated now: "Yes!"

Me: "The Star Wars arcade machine with tape across the door, an OUT OF ORDER sign hung on it, tape covering the quarter slots, the cord unplugged and the main power switch turned off?" (Top piece of tape on the door had been pulled half-off, but the kid couldn't have gotten in there that way, the other door was to the wall)

Her: "What are you trying to say?"

Me: "Ma'am, I have a hard time believing even your son is so stupid to have put his money in a machine that was obviously not working. Plus the tape on the quarter slots hasn't been touched." (I'm figuring he looked for a broken machine after spending his money playing other games, and figured he would tell mommy he got ripped off by the broken machine in hopes of her giving him more cash)

Her: "Are you calling my son stupid? I want to talk to your boss!"

Me: "Fine."

I called my boss, he came downstairs, I related the whole thing, and he basically said, "Ma'am, IS your son that stupid?"

I seem to recall she left in a bit of a huff.

The above was paraphrased, but that is pretty much how it played out.

 

[Chode Messiah]

alright, 5th sh!t in 24hours

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: MaverickBPand yes i am white. your point? does that mean i know nothing of racialism? i grew up in compten(sp?) and englewood. you try being white and living there. i know more about racism then you'll get from watching your saturday morning cartoons kid.

ROFL, PWNED!!!

 

[fbrdphreak]

So let's see here..........
I was working @ Office Max in Electronics and it was the first day that Windows 2000 was available for retail purchase. First thing on a Sunday morning, this couple comes in a stops at the display to look at the boxes. I ask them if they need help and they tell me they want to purchase it. Now me being the good customer service-type person informs them that Win2K Pro is really meant for like businesses and people who run networks & need the extra security/networking options (keep in mind I think WinME was the consumer OS at the time). These ppl get all pissed off at ME because they drove TWO HOURS to come get it this morning and why didn't the circular say that and BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. I seem to recall walking away at that point....
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Working at Best Buy in Computer Sales, there was this "problem woman." Everybody was really afraid of her because apparently she was a big bitch and wanted things done her way. Now mind you the managers in my store don't roll over for customers very easily, nothing like what the rest of you have written. Anyway, they needed somebody who was technically proficient to talk to her and everyone else in my dept (including the supervisor) was either afraid to deal with or had already tried. So after hearing all this talk about her I don't know what to expect, and when she gets there it all makes sense. She was this heavy set Italian-looking woman, with an attitude like she was better than everyone else. Well I didn't back down to her shit. She custom-ordered an HP laptop, with all kinds of bells & whistles for an in-store model. XP Pro, DVD burner, fast CPU, etc etc. She emphasized several times that it was exactly what she wanted and she would accept no less. Well, she was at home on her super-hot-sh!t laptop playing Yahoo Games. One of the noises that the stupid little online games makes came through garbled. Some stupid little beep or zoink or whatever noise, played garbled through the speakers. Apparently this meant something was wrong with the laptop. We put a CD in, played perfectly. All Windows sounds played perfectly. It wasn't the sound card, it wasn't the speakers. I tried to explain to her that it could very easily happen that an issue with the Yahoo Games website or her internet connection would cause the sound to come out distorted or whatever; but that the laptop itself was not at fault and we could not do an exchange or return (I'm pretty sure it had been outside of the 14 day return policy). I argued with her over this for like 30 minutes. She kept saying "Can you prove that to me? Can you duplicate those exact circumstances and prove to me that it was just a glitch?" :roll: In the end my managers ended up exchanging it for her, but only after she made MORE of a pain in our asses because we had like one laptop in-store with XP Pro on it and it didn't have the exact same features as hers. YOU ORDERED A CUSTOM LAPTOP, MORON!! DAMN WOMAN, IT WAS DAMN YAHOO GAMES :|
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Another time when I was at Office Max, one of my coworkers asked me if I had lost a little weight. Apparently this was a joke because some guy sh!t himself in the bathroom and was tracking it around the store as he walked around.
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This is a second hand story, but very reliable. Working at BBY, we sometimes have representatives of the printer companies there to help out. Our Epson rep was a cool guy, professional photographer for his day job. Well, my new dipsh!t manager (who BSed everything he knew about technology and was more of a shady used car salesman/idiot than a MANAGER) apparently told a customer that if he didn't buy the gold USB cables, then his pictures wouldn't print out as well. The Epson rep confronted him about it (in front of the customer :thumbsup and called BS. My manager said that he did read that in some of their training literature (BS) :roll: That guy is such an @$$
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Sometimes I'm called to help with Loss Prevention apprehensions, 'cuz I'm 6' 4" 250lbs. Unfortunately I usually don't get more involved than blocking the door, but I always find out what happened. One time when I was called to block this group of like 3 or 4 immigrant-looking ladies. I came back to find out what happened and it turns out they had a bunch a bunch of GameBoy SP's (or whatever those are, the small ones) UP THEIR SKIRTS, BEING HELD UP THEIR BETWEEN THEIR LEGS. Apparently right after I left all the merchandise dropped down, guess they couldn't keep holding it
Another one I heard about was this little girl (pre-teen/teen maybe?) was caught shoplifting CDs. But her parents were there too. The family split up to shop around and the girl boosted a bunch of CDs and met up w/her parents later. Well as they all went to the front door LP stopped them. The father got all irate and demanded to know what this was all about, as LP tries to get people into their office ASAP so as not to make a scene. Our LP person quietly informed them his daughter was stealing and he got even more pissed off. Once they got them into the office, they were able to play the tape. He shut up at that point :laugh:
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Not so much a cool story, but thought I'd share. I walk into work one day and am told by the LP guy at the door that a cop is looking for me. Me being the person who usually doesn't get in trouble for stuff (w/the cops or otherwise), my stomach hits the floor wondering what the fvck was going on. The guy finds me and it turns out he's doing an identity theft investigation. Apparently this black guy applied for a BBY Credit Card at another store in the area, then came to our store and bought stuff. When you first apply for a BBY card, they let you purchase stuff that day by putting your Driver's License # as the credit card # since you don't have your card. I believe it is provisionally approved and you purchase stuff. Well, this guy used the info of a guy serving in the Coast Guard who was out on his ship somewhere in the Pacific or something; I don't remember that part exactly. They had a suspect and he asked me to look at a photo line-up, but unfortunately I couldn't recognize a specific face I do remember the sale actually, because I found it odd that a young black guy showed up in our store, I had never seen him b4, and when I asked if he wanted help he said that our new $2700 Sony 17" notebook was "his baby" and that was the one. Transaction was done in less than 10 min, and I did follow all the proper verification routines as always.
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Its crazy what people do to steal stuff. In the comp dept @ BBY we have several more narrow, tall aisles that have peripherals, cables, etc on them. One day a suspect shoplifter looked like he ditched packaging of an item down one of these aisles and we were searching for it. To cover all the bases, I lifted up the base of a particular 4 foot section of shelving and found a bunch of OTHER empty packaging in there. We searched the rest of the bases and found a lot of sh!t in there. You live you learn

I think that's it for now

 

[MaverickBP]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Shanteli

If you find that idea pathetic it's your opinion.

Nice assumption but my point is exactly that...you know nothing about racisim. Being a white minority in LA is nothing compared to being the opposite in some other part of the country. Being called a cracker would not have the same effect on you as any of the other respective racial comments would have on minorities. Now is this some sort of jusification of an act of violence? No. But it merely explains the anger that led up to the confrontation.

You started the crapping. I'm done here.

I don't believe the other guy who couldn't spell compton. However, if you are white that has got to be one of the hardest places to grow up, easily a top 5 if considering the USA.

If a minority called me a cracker you can bet I'd be boiling though. I accept anyone...for someone to judge me I'd be in another situation.

lol besides the fact that i dont spell compton on a daily basis...i was 11 when i moved there. wasnt exactly paying bills and signing up for a driver's license

 

[djheater]

I managed a comic book store.

I routinely priced the collectible cards andknew values pretty well so I was pretty relaxed about having people remove the cards from the book and setting out which ones they wanted.

A guy (boy really...maybe 17) came in with his girlfriend and removed 5 or 6 +$10 value cards from the book. I knew them all when I looked at them, but I asked him what the prices were for the ones he removed. He rattled off lowball prices $1.50, $2.25... I was so pissed at his audacity that I, swear to god, smacked him across the face and said "Don't ever try to steal from me. I priced these cards two days ago and they're <insert actual prices here>. Now you can put these cards back and walk out the door and never come back to this store or you can pay me what you owe."

Fvcker payed up too.


Another kid squatted by some low racks and while looking at another RPG book, stuffed a $30 game manual in his sweatshirt. I was at the front of the store and there were no other customers in the store. I calmly walked to the front door and, without him noticing, locked it. Six or eight minutes later as he was walking to the front door I slowly pulled up behind him. When he go to the door and tried to open it he turned around, "Take the book out of your shirt"... he sheepishly hands it back, and I bonk him on the head with it, not lightly. "If you ever come in this store again, I swear I'll break your neck."


I have a little bit of an anger problem sometimes.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: djheater
When he go to the door and tried to open it he turned around, "Take the book out of your shirt"... he sheepishly hands it back, and I bonk him on the head with it, not lightly. "If you ever come in this store again, I swear I'll break your neck."


I have a little bit of an anger problem sometimes.

hahahahaha, that punk got what he deserved

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: djheater
I have a little bit of an anger problem sometimes.

OMG It's Gord!! :Q

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: djheater
I have a little bit of an anger problem sometimes.

OMG It's Gord!! :Q

I was thinking the same thing