I used to be a people person. Those days are LONG gone, although my ct family n friends may beg to differ. Either way, nothing brings out the inner asshole in people more than the holiday season. I get the cream of the crop working at the local Shop Rite!!!
So far this week alone, I've had to deal with moronism at its most incredible variations. To wit:
1) Some stupid schmuck runs over my ankle with her shopping cart, and, after running it over (and hearing me writhe in pain), dons a shit-eating grin John Gotti would be proud of, and sheepishly utters the words she SHOULD have said BEFORE running my ankle over with her cart; "Excuse me."
2) In lieu of kindly (or even hastily) asking for assistance, a woman says aloud, baiting me, "I wonder if these glass jars of olive oil will fall if I pull out the one underneath them 'cause I can't get to the ones on top. I wanna try it!" I got up off the floor, where I was packing out an item on the bottom shelf (where people just LOOOOOOOVE to stick their junk in my face, instead of saying, "Excuse me.")to bring the glass jars on the top down for her. She then said, "Oh, I didn't want to bother you." I responded, "All you had to do was ask!"
3) An absolute jerk off waits behind me tapping his foot, instead of asking to be excused by the elderly woman who parked her cart alongside me (as I was on my kness putting an item on a lower shelf) or asking me to step aside. After I finished packing out the item, he says surly, "What does it take to get through an aisle around here?" I said, "How 'bout saying, 'Excuse me'!"
4) While operating an electric jack, carrying a pallet of bottled water (1.5 tons), several people, thinking that they can outrace a machine that can fly down the aisle at about 18 mph, cut directly in front of me. This, of course, forces me to hit the brakes.....along with the others following me. Not only is this machine carrying a LOT of weight, but can be a lethal weapon if one is not careful.
The moral of the story is....HAVE SOME FUCKING COMMON COURTESY WHEN YOU ARE OUT AT THE MARKET!!!! Worker bees are humans too, and appreciate being treated with the dignity and respect that you expect to be treated with as paying customers. Just because you shop at a supermarket, it does not mean you have free reign to be assholes! I appreciate your patronage. In exchange, you should appreciate my arduousity, and reward it with common courtesy.
So, PLEASE, the next time you lovely cherries are at the market, show a worker bee some love. The holidays are supposed to bring out the best in people! Say 'excuse me', 'thank you', and 'please', and watch how well you get treated in return! The guys I work with (myself included) will bend over backwards to see a customer smile. It's sad that people suck so much that they wanna put us in 'our place'! FUCKING ASSHOLES!!!!
