when i worked at Wal-Mart i seen the adult in the cart lots of time wait till you see a adult in a cart being pushed by a automobile maybe she yelled at you for not being original
Yeah, he was being stupid, but I don’t see a need to be rude about it unless she asked nicely first and they refused. But the waitress, that sounds very weird. Are you sure she wasn’t joking?
Hey! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with riding around in a grocery cart if you’re not hurting/breaking anything. However, I would absolutely expect anyone working at the establishment to give me a talking to if I was, and wouldn’t call them a jerk for it; that’s their job.
Somehow, after reading the OP, I think that TimTheEnchanter has no clue about what is acceptable. He claims that his hi-jinks were harmless but, if the hi-jinks were harmless, people wouldn’t get pissed.
TimTheEnchanter,, it seems to me that you are too stupid to understand why people think you are an ignorant teen. Grow up.
Slee
I find the waitress’s comments puzzling and would certainly like to hear from another side, as well.
Tim’s profile says she’s a “chic”.
I would like to know what prompted the waitress’ comment as well.
As far as the cart…Last year, I worked at a kiosk in the mall. I had to use a cart as part of my closing duties. A man came along and asked if he could push his pre-school aged son around on it. “Sorry,” I said politely, thinking, I don’t want to have to chase them down to get it back. Only later did I think of the additional risk of injury leading to lawsuit.
But my initial reaction was, I think, equally valid. If you give some people an inch, they will take a mile. Sorry, Tim, but that cashier didn’t know what else you guys might do, if you started out messing with the carts. Perhaps you weren’t out of hand at that moment, but she probably felt it was better to issue a warning before you became so. Similarly, the McD’s where I once worked would boot people who thought it was funny to pop ketchup packets, because if that behavior went unchecked, someone would eventually try to top it.
What the hell is wrong with kids these days, dammit! Riding around in shopping carts and complaining when they get yelled at. The whole point of riding around in shopping carts is the risk of being yelled at! If it were allowed, it wouldn’t be any fun!
That aside, I have zero problem believing Tim’s account of her interaction with the waitress. Has no one else here never encountered random hostility from strangers? Especially when you were a teenager? I recall my friends and I once being thrown out of a shopping mall because some one had complained about an entirely different group of teenagers making trouble, and the rent-a-failure* couldn’t be bothered to figure out if he was hassling the right kids. Which makes me ask, Tim, was there another group of people your age who were acting up in the restaurant? Maybe the waitress just assumed you were all together.
(*Thanks to Anthracite for my new favorite vocational epithet.)