Back when I was studying law I worked in retail on the weekends. By the end of the weekend, it was highly unusual not to have an anecdote to tell my family or friends about something silly or weird a customer had done.
Then I started working as a lawyer (with large corporates as clients, not retail law) and at a certain point I looked back and realised I could now go months if not years at a time without gathering a new anecdote.
Maybe this was the only card she had that wasn’t maxed out. Maybe her aggression was masking embarrassment and frustration. Or maybe she was cynically playing the race victim card in hopes of getting better treatment.
None of us knows what was in her mind, nor what happened to her or what she did before this interaction.
All of you mind-readers and type-definers should just take a step back, and consider that this was a person, behaving badly, maybe having a bad day, maybe the kindest person you would ever meet under better circumstances. You don’t know. I don’t know.
Oh, I get that. She seems to run into the crazies at her retail jobs or on public transport, so there’s definitely a ring to truth to that. It’s just that the crazies she runs into are so aggressive…always screaming and ranting. It’s rather bizarre.
Oh no. There’s a zero percent chance any of this happened. But the telling of this beautiful black woman acting perfectly belligerent and entitled, of course with the unprovoked accusation of racism, followed up by Annie’s oh-so-clever response, causes my eyebrow to raise. And in case you missed what was clever about Annie’s rejoinder, everyone laughed!
Overall good story. Could have involved more belligerence, or our Anne being hoisted on everyone’s shoulders. I guess she was going for subtlety.
My experience, though decades ago, was different. It was about a 50/50 split. I can’t remember a racial divide in that, however, if there was one. Most common scam was the “I gave you a $20” when they only gave you a $10. The more they complained, the more likely it was a scam. Next was return policy abuse (especially people trying to return items the store had never stocked).
Added so I can feel like I’m part of the crowd: And if those Jew owners weren’t so cheap and racist, they’d be able to take that ghetto-fabulous Nubian princess’s AMEX card.
Oh for sure she seems to be employing tired stereotypes, in particular the large and loud black woman…but in her world people scream a lot, so it’s hard to say if she’s employing a stereotype or just her usual overly exaggerated description of events.
I was referring to needing to keep male cashiers handy for those who won’t deal with a woman cashier. Nothing to do with the Jew Owners- just the fact that most businesses (regardless of ownership) will happily sell out the dignity of their employees for a sale.
