Talk about over compensating for somone else's POV. What bugs me about this is how much we have to govern our behavior just because somone else might get offended. You know what... if you don't like my bare shoulders, then don't look at them.
In all seriousness, the clerk was only trying to save the family from future hassles. Problem is, that ain't her job.
Probably a subject for another thread, but I'll post a bit of it here because I belive they are related...
I have tried very hard to keep an open mind in our post 9-11 world. I tend to be fairly liberal (nah... really?
), but I find it increasinly hard. With everything that is going on in the world, people seem to be regressing. Going backwards. Becoming more and more closed minded. Anybody else get that feeling?