It is a never ending source of irritation to me how rude people are these days. Today a guy comes up and barks at me "Gimme a gift card!" I point out to him "all of our Barnes & Noble gift cards are right here, you can pick out the one you want."
His reply? "Gimme a Starbucks one," like I was a retarded fifth grader and he had to speak really loud to make me understand.
"I'm sorry, we only have the B&N gift cards here. . ."
Even before I had finished the last word he gives that "you tard" head shake and mutters "asshole," and stomps out. Now if I was being an asshole then I could understand but I was actually being nice. ARGH! He made me want to scream and knock him in front of a moving car and yell "YOU are the fucking asshole. YOU went to the wrong DAMN place!" then give him that 'you retarded puppy' headshake.
The other delightful person I encountered came up to the counter with her middle aged daughter. I was coming out of the backroom so I called out "Hello".
No response.
I went right up to the counter and said "Hi there."
Nothing.
The woman turned, glared at me, turned up her nose and had a look on her face like how dare I speak to her and stuck her finger in my face in that "wait a minute" gesture while her daughter kept chatting away on her phone.
I thought to myself "bitch, you better not speak English and you are waiting for her to translate for you." So I walked away and wiped stuff down to keep from reaching over the counter and breaking the finger she was waving in my face. Her daughter kept chatting away on the phone so I kept ignoring the old bag until she deemed it okay to speak to me by saying in a bored and superior tone "I guess you can make my drink for me."
REALLYYou're going to
let me make your drink? Wow, just what I waited my whole fucking life for, to make
your drink you old bag (how I wish I had won the lottery so I could have actually said that to her). Again, no please, thank you, hello, goodbye, or anything, just GET ME and GIVE ME. ARGH!
Well, my passive aggressive nature just couldn't let it completely slide so the next person came up and she was a really polite and perky young lady who was just really nice. She orders a tea and loud enough so the old hag could hear as she was adding splenda to her nonfat 1/2 caff latte I said to the polite young lady "No charge for the tea. You are so polite and pleasant it was a pleasure to get this for you so it's on the house."
The old hag just glared at the young girl after hearing that and stumped off to make someone else miserable.