(It’s Christmas Eve and there is a long line of customers who are now waiting to pay. A little girl cuts to the front while I am giving a guy a drink refill.)
Little girl’s mom (LGM), to the refill guy: “UGH! Did you just cut her?”
(LGM smacks the guy in head; surprisingly, he just walks off with his soda.)
Me: “What can I get you?”
LGM: “Don’t ask me, ask her! She’s your customer; you should be asking her. God, it’s people like you who ruin the holidays!”
Me, to the little girl: “Okay, what would you like?”
(The little girl just stares blankly at me while customers are becoming pissed.)
LGM, coming clean: “Just give me a Diet Pepsi. It’s for me.”