jesus I just had the strangest "altercation" at the grocery store

[The Notorious LOL]

so anyway I went to the store to get some cat num nums and lunch and i approach the register.


In front of me was some older gentleman throwing his shit up on the register and like a civil person does, i put mine at the back with one of those things that separates his stuff from my stuff. Dudes all slow putting his stuff up on the register so as mine gets closer he keeps flinging it back a bit, and he glares at me while doing it.

I look at him and go "dont fling my shit around because you're too slow to put your stuff up there"


and he retorted something about "get outta here, I dont need to listen to you"

now naturally I avoid altercations in any sense but this just pissed me off so I said "bro you gotta be pushin 50 and you're acting like a 13 year old"

at which point he says "I dont gotta take anything..." then stops, proceeds to SHOUT at the baggage man at the end and says "I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOAD THOSE! I WILL BAG THEM MYSELF!"

and I just looked at him and said "whatever dude, just bag it up and go, Im done with this"

the clerk kinda rolled her eyes and I said to her "it must suck to have such a meaningless life that you have to vent your aggression on people at the grocery store" while the dude was in earshot. He glared at me as I left, and that was the end of it.

smfh.

[Dorothy Wood]

that man has ball cancer.

[The Notorious LOL]

yeah I actually thought to myself he must have some kind of penis problem

[abcdefz]

You coulda been nicer and diffused the situation, methinks.

[The Notorious LOL]

of course I could have. I chose not to be. Asshole reactions should be met with asshole retorts, unless its someone I know and care about. I dont apply that "kill them with kindness" nonsense to total strangers.

[beastiegirrl101]

I bet the lack of nicotine in your system has something to do with your fiercness.

[abcdefz]

of course I could have. I chose not to be. Asshole reactions should be met with asshole retorts, unless its someone I know and care about. I dont apply that "kill them with kindness" nonsense to total strangers.



...then why are you surprised at his reaction?


And I'm not talking about "killing with kindness" -- more like giving a little grace and civility a shot first before you "go there."

[DIGI]

Yeah, man. Why do you gotta be such a dick?

[The Notorious LOL]

because his initial reaction was what spurned it. Had he said "excuse me could you move your things back, this is taking longer than I thought" I would have said "oh, sure. I apologize"


oh yeah he was a black guy too. I should have mentioned that. Please everyone harp on his race for the next 40 posts.

[DIGI]

If dude would have glared at me, I'd tell him that I thought I loved him.

This chinese kid I know likes to harp on peoples' race.

[The Notorious LOL]

yeah if the chinese kid was there we woulda wooed him with our SKATEBOARD TRICKS :cool:

[Dorothy Wood]

God bless the chinese kids.

[The Notorious LOL]

he woulda done a totally gnarly rail slide on the side of the register and educated the old man on the virtues of being drug free.

[Dorothy Wood]

in all seriousness, it would've ruled if you shouted, "DON'T DO DRUGS!" at the old man. or any old man.

[DIGI]

bitchin. The old man would be too stoked to remember what happened.

[The Notorious LOL]

oh and the guy wasnt really black I just wanted to say that for a couple of minutes.


However, there was a black guy in the grocery store, he too was buying cat num nums.

[enree erzweglle]

I smile at the notion that I often see here (on these particular boards) that someone who is in the range of 50 is old. :p

What you described sounds like a typical experience in the chain supermarket in my neighborhood. I try to avoid that place for a bunch of reasons but mainly because a lot of the people in it are awfully rude.

A lot of the people who shop in that store are old and by old, I mean that they're in the 75-90 range. A lot of them tend to be short-tempered or they feel entitled or they're just confused and all of that often leads to belligerence which leads to drama.

And most of the employees of that store look dead in the eyes--they are covered in this flat affect--probably from getting paid minimum wage to deal with fairly consistently rude shoppers.

[beastiegirrl101]

can you stop saying num nums?

pleaseandthankyou.

[The Notorious LOL]

actually the guy was probably closer to early 40s but I simply bumped the age bracket up by 10 or so years with the intention of pissing him off.


so yes, I guess I sort of just pushed his buttons further. his black guy emotion buttons.


and no I will never stop saying num nums. EVER.

[DIGI]

I know this Chinese kid that eats cat food. Or maybe he just eats cats as food. Wait, actually he's black. Now this makes no sense at all.:confused:

[The Notorious LOL]

I seen this group of Chinese Italian kids wearing shirts that say "Proud to Be Chinese-Italian" buying cat num nums once.

[enree erzweglle]

of course I could have. I chose not to be. Asshole reactions should be met with asshole retorts, unless its someone I know and care about. I dont apply that "kill them with kindness" nonsense to total strangers.Yeah, I tend to disagree with that approach. I think doing a retort per retort just mires you and everyone else in deeper. Sorry to use a cliched quote but Gandhi said it best: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

[beastiegirrl101]

and no I will never stop saying num nums. EVER.

than I am forced to put you on block.

[Dorothy Wood]

I know this Chinese kid that eats cat food. Or maybe he just eats cats as food. Wait, actually he's black. Now this makes no sense at all.:confused:

you should've quit while you were ahead.

[The Notorious LOL]

I would agree but it was a cranky man at the grocery store. Its not like it was peace talks with North Korea.

[The Notorious LOL]

than I am forced to put you on block.



if thats what you need, then you do what you must!

[Extra Cheese]

i dont think people realize the absurdness of "bro"

[Dorothy Wood]

I like to call cat food, cah-ko food. in other news, George's new nickname is Arthur J. Prumpleton, the third.

[Qdrop]

easily one of the best threads in months....

[TurdBerglar]

a woman asked me for unfrosted blueberry poptarts in the family pack. i told her we didn't carry them in the family pack as we don't. she could not cope with this news and did not beleive me at all. i even showed her that we didn't even have a corresponding tag on the shelf for her request. she then proceded to call me a lying bastard. i called her a neurotic soccer mom fuckwit. she didn't appreciate that. she left. i laughed. it was fun.

who the fuck like unfrosted poptarts anyways?

[adam_f]

All that sun must've got to George Hamilton.

[DIGI]

you should've quit while you were ahead.

NEVER!!!

[SobaViolence]

while i was pumping gas for my mom, someone had left their car in front of the pump behind us and it was getting quite busy. some ass drives up to the parked car, gets out and looks at it.

he looks at me, raises his arms like he is outraged and yells, 'Hey buddy. move this car!'

to which i reply, 'what?i don't work here.'

'well, get it out of here.'

and i finally stop pumping, take a step from the car and yell, 'are you fucking stupid? it's not my car!'

my mom starts laughing her ass off and i continue to pump. old people suck.

[Lyman Zerga]

Yeah, man. Why do you gotta be such a dick?

prick not dick

prick!

[ET]

Word, son! You gotta keep it real even when you're in the express checkout. GANKSTA 24/7.

I will straight call a bitch out if they try to roll with 15 items in the 10 items or less lane. Fuck that! Especially if all I have is a package of Snuggles and some Lean Pockets. And if someone touched my shit? It would have gone down in a similar fashion. I would have had that bitch blowing on my stomach like Putin. WHAT!

[roosta]

Sometimes people like that deserve asshole reactions cuz they never get them and thats why they think they can get away with it. Sometimes fighting assholeness with defiant kindness and patience works cause it pulls the rug out from under the asshole, but other times they think nothing will be said and -bam- you hit them with their own brand of assholeness.

[Dorothy Wood]

Word, son! You gotta keep it real even when you're in the express checkout. GANKSTA 24/7.

I will straight call a bitch out if they try to roll with 15 items in the 10 items or less lane. Fuck that! Especially if all I have is a package of Snuggles and some Lean Pockets. And if someone touched my shit? It would have gone down in a similar fashion. I would have had that bitch blowing on my stomach like Putin. WHAT!


ET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *faints*

[QueenAdrock]

LOL@ CAT NUM NUMS (y)

[abcdefz]

Bah. You guys just like drama. There's a way to handle yourself in a manner in this world that keeps things peaceful 95% of the time. 4% of the remainder, you blow off, and 1% is probably the appropriate approximate ratio for an explosion of righteous anger.

[marsdaddy]

You know your problem? You're ageist. The whole damn world is. Built for the 3 second attention span of a gnat. There were probably sale items moving to dance music on the register screen. I can feel that "old" guy's pain.

Last Friday night, some guy at the gelato counter called me and my friends "cats". His exact words, "are you with these cats?" I should have asked for num nums.

[Lyman Zerga]

ET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *faints*

i quote that

[enree erzweglle]

You know your problem? You're ageist. The whole damn world is. Built for the 3 second attention span of a gnat. There were probably sale items moving to dance music on the register screen. I can feel that "old" guy's pain.

Last Friday night, some guy at the gelato counter called me and my friends "cats". His exact words, "are you with these cats?" I should have asked for num nums.Best post ever, marsdaddy and a-z, that 1% estimate--you ought to revise that a wee bit.

[Bob]

You know your problem? You're ageist. The whole damn world is. Built for the 3 second attention span of a gnat. There were probably sale items moving to dance music on the register screen. I can feel that "old" guy's pain.

Last Friday night, some guy at the gelato counter called me and my friends "cats". His exact words, "are you with these cats?" I should have asked for num nums.

that sounds like something an old person would say

[HotAndWet]

Both me and my parents always get into altercations at stores. One time a few summers ago my mom and I encountered two sniveling little retards that were giggling at some lady obnoxiously and to the point where the lady knew they were laughing at her. So my mom had to pass them and said "Excuse me, if you know the meaning of the word" and for the rest of the time in the store they kept staring at us! I was all wtf is with them? So we get outside and this old guy in a cadilac pulls up and is like "I DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOU TALKED TO MY WIFE" or some shit and my mom just said "I DON'T LIKE THE WAY THEY WERE LAUGHING RUDELY AT THAT WOMAN" It basically ended with me telling them to eat me and calling the daughter a whore or something, I <3 mom.

Then a few weeks ago while at a convenience store with my cousin and her friend to buy cigarettes, this old man with an American flag bandana started shit. My cousin's friend looks young for her age, but she is 18 with proper id to buy cigarettes, all of a sudden in a southern twang he goes "SHE DON'T LOOK 18 CHECK HER ID!" So I said "THAT'S RUDE OF YOU TO SAY, SHE IS 18" him, "WELL SHE DON'T LOOK IT!" me: "WELL SHE IS, AND I DON'T THINK IT'S ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS" and then he stopped because he knew I was right.
Then I made sure to say loudly "ARE THERE ALWAYS THIS MANY ASSHOLES IN THIS STORE?"

[jackrock]

If something like this happens just whip out a long alliteration, causing them to be confused with no reply.

[Echewta]

Grocery stores are full of strangers and produce.

[QweenOfBoggle]

this past weekend I had to run into a gas station to use the restroom and get some water so yeah, I'm in the women's restroom (it was a single bathroom not one with several different stalls) and mid-way through me pissing someone knocks on the door. Naturally, I tell them I'll be done in a second and then proceed to finish what I was doing. Anyway, after I get out of there, I see that the person who knocked was a man and his wife...Weird. Also, even after I left to grab a bottle of water they never used the restroom...Then at the register he asked me if I had been doing drugs in the restroom, jokingly. And then asked me if I knew where the nearest sandwich shop was. I told them no and went to leave (after I had paid) and on my way to the car he asks if I know where the nearest restaurant is. There was a McDonald's across the street. Does any of this seem extremely fucking weird to anyone else? Meh, nothing else came of it...just a story about my time buying things.

sorry if anyone actually read all of that...

[ET]

Um, duh, he was going to proposition you for a threesome. :eek:

(Psst, how you guys doing?)

[Dorothy Wood]

ETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT phone home.

psst, I'm sarky.

[cosmo105]

my grocery store incident today was of the wonderful kind. my friend the comedian brought his french bulldog in to slobber all over me and give me happy puppy kisses. i was in heaven.

[ET]

I didn't mean 'you' as in all of you but okay!

I could phone home but I think I'm out of anytime minutes already. You must be drinking so that would qualify as a drunk dial... either way I have a whole bowl of Werther's Original candies so I'm sitting pretty, my friend. Pretty indeed.