pinshooter45
Master
First a little background. Since being unemployed Monday has become my errand day, and I had several to run on Monday 12/05/11. And I needed to go to Wal-Mart to get a few groceries, and my arthritis script, that I had been out of since thursday. So I had to get to the bank and do the Unemployment $ xfer. Then to Best Buy for an item, then to Eagle Micro Computers for some advice and more memory to fix the problems on my home computer that were causeing slowness and freezes. (Memory fixed it! Yea!) So I get to Wal-Mart and my arthritis is in over drive. I get my script, pay for it, and then pick up a few more groceries.
So when I get to the check out lines they are all full except one 20 or less lane with no one in it. I look at my cart and decide I probably have a little more that 20 items, but just a few. And I always cut people some slack on that since WM has told their cashiers that the 20 item thing is a guidline not a hard and fast rule, and cannot refuse a customer. So I start unloading my stuff on the line when I hear a guy say "Got more that 20 there don't you bud". I say "Well maybe, but I'm probably just a few over". Then he says something like " Your more than a few over, and you don't have to be rude" Now I did not think I was rude, but my arthrits is really hurting about now so I say jokingly "I'm sorry I'm a victim of the public school system" to try to lighten and defuse the situation. He comes back with "I don't think you even went to school". That's when I lost it, cause that's like calling me a dumba$$, and I held a 3.75 gpa in college while working a full time job! So a short argument ensues with him being the first to drop the F-Bomb on me, so I give it right back! Now usually I can ignore this stuff but yesturday I just couldn't. But I quickly decide this is going no where and just stop responding pay for my stuff and leave, while this guy continues his rant. When I got home and looked at the receipt my item total was 26 items.
So I was just wondering from you all. Who was the bigger jerk, me for haveing 26 items in the 20 item line? Or him for acting like I had commited a felony? I'll accept your judgement. And BTW I wasn't carrying at the time, and while it never crossed my mind that a firearm might be needed. I wonder what this guy might have said or done if he caught a glimpse of my CC 1911. And then again I wonder if he would have said anything if I had been Ocing.
So when I get to the check out lines they are all full except one 20 or less lane with no one in it. I look at my cart and decide I probably have a little more that 20 items, but just a few. And I always cut people some slack on that since WM has told their cashiers that the 20 item thing is a guidline not a hard and fast rule, and cannot refuse a customer. So I start unloading my stuff on the line when I hear a guy say "Got more that 20 there don't you bud". I say "Well maybe, but I'm probably just a few over". Then he says something like " Your more than a few over, and you don't have to be rude" Now I did not think I was rude, but my arthrits is really hurting about now so I say jokingly "I'm sorry I'm a victim of the public school system" to try to lighten and defuse the situation. He comes back with "I don't think you even went to school". That's when I lost it, cause that's like calling me a dumba$$, and I held a 3.75 gpa in college while working a full time job! So a short argument ensues with him being the first to drop the F-Bomb on me, so I give it right back! Now usually I can ignore this stuff but yesturday I just couldn't. But I quickly decide this is going no where and just stop responding pay for my stuff and leave, while this guy continues his rant. When I got home and looked at the receipt my item total was 26 items.
So I was just wondering from you all. Who was the bigger jerk, me for haveing 26 items in the 20 item line? Or him for acting like I had commited a felony? I'll accept your judgement. And BTW I wasn't carrying at the time, and while it never crossed my mind that a firearm might be needed. I wonder what this guy might have said or done if he caught a glimpse of my CC 1911. And then again I wonder if he would have said anything if I had been Ocing.
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