I literally spent a few minutes after typing those two words trying to decide/determine the exact moment I lost my faith in humanity, if such a moment actually existed. As a homosexual who grew up in a southern state of the USA, there were probably hundreds of such moments, but for some reason one particular interaction sticks out to me.
Totally random, and at the moment I don’t know why, but I think the day was Saturday September 15th, 2001.
I was working in retail at the time, and in specific, I was in charge of “customer service”. A customer showed up at the counter and he wanted to return a bag of dog food that our store didn’t even sell. He claimed he bought it at our store, but did not have a receipt. Despite our policy being that a receipt is required because of how much the dog food cost, I actually wasn’t worried about it at all. However, he wanted to exchange it for a more expensive name brand dog food, and felt like he shouldn’t have to pay the difference. It wasn’t even a situation where he was asking me to help, he was literally demanding that I give him the more expensive stuff for free.
Needless to say, I was not in the mood. He turned into the biggest asshole of the day. Screaming, throwing shit, called me a faggot, etc. Claimed he was veteran, and that I was unamerican for not giving him the more expensive bag of dog food for free because things have changed after 9/11.
And here it is, 25 years later, still sticks with me how giant of a cunt that sub-human scum was but also how much of a harbinger he was for the direction my country was heading.
Same here.
I literally spent a few minutes after typing those two words trying to decide/determine the exact moment I lost my faith in humanity, if such a moment actually existed. As a homosexual who grew up in a southern state of the USA, there were probably hundreds of such moments, but for some reason one particular interaction sticks out to me.
Totally random, and at the moment I don’t know why, but I think the day was Saturday September 15th, 2001.
I was working in retail at the time, and in specific, I was in charge of “customer service”. A customer showed up at the counter and he wanted to return a bag of dog food that our store didn’t even sell. He claimed he bought it at our store, but did not have a receipt. Despite our policy being that a receipt is required because of how much the dog food cost, I actually wasn’t worried about it at all. However, he wanted to exchange it for a more expensive name brand dog food, and felt like he shouldn’t have to pay the difference. It wasn’t even a situation where he was asking me to help, he was literally demanding that I give him the more expensive stuff for free.
Needless to say, I was not in the mood. He turned into the biggest asshole of the day. Screaming, throwing shit, called me a faggot, etc. Claimed he was veteran, and that I was unamerican for not giving him the more expensive bag of dog food for free because things have changed after 9/11.
And here it is, 25 years later, still sticks with me how giant of a cunt that sub-human scum was but also how much of a harbinger he was for the direction my country was heading.