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SirLance · 10-18-2005, 01:18 PM

Your hair is perfect! And you are beautiful!

It's pretty unusual for a food service place to not have a restroom available to customers, but the reason is understandable in this case.

I wonder what happened to civility? Don't parents raise thier children to be polite anymore? The sad thing is that if you speak up for yourself you get in trouble.

I however, do not. I've been in situations where I've seen dumbshits verbally beating up on high-school kids because they weren't happy about something. My son and I often meet at Starbucks for a cup of coffee. Several weeks ago, we were having a cup when some dumbass started yelling at the kid behind the counter.

THey had made some sort of mistake with his order. Well, they weren't rude to him, or nasty, or anything else. The girl was maybe 17, she said something like "I'm sorry for the mistake, we'll fix you a new one right away."

Well, dumbass proceeds to berate her about her competency. His language was profane. She was polite throughout, but nearly in tears. So I stand up, tap asswipe on the shoulder and tell him he's got no call to be so rude and hostile. She made a mistake, she acknowledge her mistake, she apologized, and she's fixing her mistake.

He tells me to mind my own business.

I explain that I was army special forces, and that protecting those who can't protect themselves IS my business. Then I asked him if he thought it was strange that the high school kid is being courteous and professional, and the thirtysomething is acting like a 5 year old who's been told he can't watch TV right now.

He stammered for a bit, mumbled an apology and left.

People need to speak up more when others are uncivil.

10-18-2005, 01:18 PM	#56 (permalink)
SirLance Junkie Location: In the middle of the desert.	Your hair is perfect! And you are beautiful! It's pretty unusual for a food service place to not have a restroom available to customers, but the reason is understandable in this case. I wonder what happened to civility? Don't parents raise thier children to be polite anymore? The sad thing is that if you speak up for yourself you get in trouble. I however, do not. I've been in situations where I've seen dumbshits verbally beating up on high-school kids because they weren't happy about something. My son and I often meet at Starbucks for a cup of coffee. Several weeks ago, we were having a cup when some dumbass started yelling at the kid behind the counter. THey had made some sort of mistake with his order. Well, they weren't rude to him, or nasty, or anything else. The girl was maybe 17, she said something like "I'm sorry for the mistake, we'll fix you a new one right away." Well, dumbass proceeds to berate her about her competency. His language was profane. She was polite throughout, but nearly in tears. So I stand up, tap asswipe on the shoulder and tell him he's got no call to be so rude and hostile. She made a mistake, she acknowledge her mistake, she apologized, and she's fixing her mistake. He tells me to mind my own business. I explain that I was army special forces, and that protecting those who can't protect themselves IS my business. Then I asked him if he thought it was strange that the high school kid is being courteous and professional, and the thirtysomething is acting like a 5 year old who's been told he can't watch TV right now. He stammered for a bit, mumbled an apology and left. People need to speak up more when others are uncivil. __________________ DEMOCRACY is where your vote counts, FEUDALISM is where your count votes.