Moving on to the second ignorant lady. This one is for you, ignorant lady at the market place and hoarder of all things plastic.
My friend and I decide to go to the market place to get some pre-chopped strawberries for her yogurt. After paying for her strawberries, my friend asks for a plastic bag so that she can carry her strawberries. The cashier ignores my friend’s polite request and decides now would be a good time to count all the $20s in the register.
Someone else now has a purchase to make so the cashier looks past us and says “next” and reaches over us to ring in the next purchase.
I could not believe her audacity! So I said “No. Can. She. Get. A. Plastic. Bag. Please.” Being very clear about the request. The cashier lady angrily passes a bag over the counter without so much as making contact at either of us. She’s too busy trying to serve the next customer.
My friend says ‘thanks’ though because she’s more polite than I am, and puts her own strawberries in the bag and moves her way on out. Towards the front of the store is where they keep all the plastic utensils and napkins and things. It’s a ‘help-yourself’ policy, or so I thought.
My friend grabs one of each cutlery and as she moves for a napkin the miserable cashier lady says “no you can’t take that, you didn’t pay for it.” My friend assumes it’s a joke. These things are complimentary. She continues on for a straw and the miserable cashier lady says again “no, I’m serious. If you want that you’ll have to purchase something else. You didn’t spend enough money for that.”
My friend puts it back and we walk out. The lady is still talking behind our backs so my friend flips her the bird, which I thought was quite graceful. It wasn’t just what the cashier said, it was how she said it. She was wearing her glasses at the bridge of her nose and looking above them to glare at us. The woman was fully ignorant and honestly, my friend handled it way more maturely than I would have.
If it was me, I would have put the plastic fork in my mouth and placed it back in the tub of forks and said “THERE! Have your stupid fork” – knowing she’d now have to throw out all the forks or contaminate the public with my cooties.
There is no sign in the store saying you must make a purchase to take a plastic fork. Nor does it quantify, what dollar value is worthy of taking a free straw. And the store is already ridiculously priced.
So here’s how it is, if I spend $0.80 on one single banana and I want to use a plastic fork and knife to chop it up into small pieces before sucking it up through a damn straw, you better believe I will be taking all of these things from you. You have a problem, put up a sign. No one likes you miserable cashier lady, if you hate your job then quit. I highly doubt you’re raking in the big bucks…. Oh now I get it. You’re forbidding us to take your good plastic ware because you’re going to take it home.
Wait until I tell your boss you’re stealing from work… I saw you eyeing all those $20s in the till.
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