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Yesterday, I watched as a dissatisfied customer made it her mission to go to Customer Service and for five minutes, tell them how "nasty" I was to her.

Some customers are ready for a fight. My job is to do my job. I don't respond when provoked except for a few more, "Yes, Sirs/Ma'ams" where necessary. Especially when their arms are marked from shoulder to fingertip with tattoos.

The really hard part of this situation is where they aren't necessarily out of control and you don't necessarily need to call a supervisor to take over. But you know you're in an unenviable situation.

Did Retail for 4+ decades and folks have gotten progressively worse. My theory is that it is based in economics and the inequality of those economics and the stress builds from there.

People have been angry for a long time and it has been simmering under the surface, bubbling up when the stress gets to be too much.

Asshole. He’s been doing that since he was campaigning in 2016.

came on the scene. Now we simply have more access to cell phone camera videos of people acting out. Trump has not helped things one bit most certainly, but this is nothing new for those of us in the Retail or Service Sectors.

When you have a job, and paycheck on the line.

Side note - in my younger years I was the person who would step in or say something if someone was being shitty to someone else in public. Not even think twice.

Now, older and with a family, after decades of right wing charles bronsonish hero worship by right wing propoganda and just how tweaked out they have their masses now ... You just never know who is strapped and will pull a gun and end your life.

America is flat out fucked until collectively we recognize the cancer that is conservatism and openly repudiate it.

I was trying to think who was the first to have a big hit in that genre, and kept coming up with Rambo. I knew that wasn't it, though.

and Stallone's "Rambo", you had the most famous of all from RW loon extraordinaire and premier empty chair whisperer himself - Clint Eastwood in "Sudden Impact" and the "Go ahead, make my day".

I just checked, Dirty Harry has a 1971 release date. It may have been the first. So the old man with the empty chair is the one to blame, after all. Well, him and the Dukes of Hazzard and their freakin' car.

But then you can go back WAY before then to someone an entire generation grew up with -

without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

when checking out. To make up for the assholes. You guys have an incredibly tough job and the rest of us need to go out of our way to show our appreciation.

The image......

ummmm...self-gratification in public.

I once posted about self-gratification in the shower and got alerted on.

I was inboxed that the post was alerted but not "pulled."

So don't mention self-gratification in your posts unless you don't have two alerts already.

Does AZ even have "stand your ground" laws?

I've been to that ice cream shop just once (while traveling) but I've not seen any near me. (Yeah... I guess they did play with my ice cream.)

Once we were frightened by a man with a gun WEARING a mask . . .

"Never mind"

"He was booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, misconduct involving weapons and disorderly conduct."

What are his bail conditions?

This wasn't his first act........