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Nightmare on Her Street...the Tongue-Lashing of 2011

This morning started out as a pretty normal Friday. Up at 6am, gym at 6:30am, breakfast, shower, then head to rehearsal. On my way to rehearsal I decided to make a quick (or so I thought) pit stop at the CVS on the way. Just wanted to pick up a snack or two and be on my merry way. As I walked up the the cashier, there was a customer ahead of me, a rather stout woman with a bad wig and wearing what can best be described as a nightgown tucked into some jeans. She handed the cashier a disposable camera and said she need a disk with the digital prints and wanted to know how long it would take. The cashier told her that they offered one hour processing for digital prints. The customer said she needed them sooner than that and wanted it done, to which the cashier pointed at the larger than life sign on the wall that said "One Hour Processing For Digital Prints". Well apparently the customer either could not read or was just plain stupid (the latter is far more likely) because she decided that this wasn't good enough and started to pitch a fit. The cashier called over the person that does the photo processing and asked her how long it would take, if it could be done sooner than an hour. To which she replied yes, but that they don't guarantee it. They would definitely be done in an hour, possibly less. This still was not good enough for the customer, who at that point decided to tell the cashier that she didn't know anything and was not doing her job and that she wasn't going anywhere until she was told that she would have her prints in under an hour.

Now let me back up a little and give you one other piece of info. Last night I did not sleep all too well. I had a dream where some friends and I were trapped in a house and Freddy Krueger (yes, THAT Freddy K) was trying to kill all of us. I woke up around 1:30am to go to the bathroom, and when I returned to bed I didn't fall asleep right away for fear that Freddy was coming after me. So I admit that I was probably a little more irritable than on any given day. Which is a recipe for disaster. And now, back to the story.

After almost 6 minutes of listening to this lady berate the employee, I had had enough. I said to her back, "Ma'am you do not need to talk to her like that." She turned around and gave me a look that could best be read "Oh no he didn't" and said "excuse me?". My reply: "You are an insufferably rude bitch and this is uncalled for. So shut the fuck up and move your ass so that the rest of us can check out." The two people in line behind me started laughing and applauding. The lady looked me up and down, then oh so politely stepped aside. The cashier winked at me and I apologized to her for having to deal with people like that. She smiled, knowing I had said what she as an employee could not. I paid for my items and thanked her for her wonderful customer service and she told me to have a blessed day. I looked at the rude lady (I swear she was conjuring up some black magic spell to put on me), smiled at her and said "You have a nice day too, ok?". From the fire in her eyes I could tell that if I had been within arms reach she probably would have swung on me.

I can tolerate a lot of things. But one thing I can not stand is blatant rudeness. People like this lady sometimes need a little of their own medicine to see the error of their ways. I just wish more of us would stand up for others instead of sitting back uninvolved. Yes, this lady could have been packing a purse gun. Yes, she could have given me a swift kick to the nether regions. Yes, she could have tried to return the verbal spar with me (in which case I have no doubt that I still would have won). Luckily, I'm still standing, and it was totally worth it to see her look of astonishment that someone would have the audacity to call her out. And it totally put me in a good mood. So it's a win-win for everyone, right?

Now, if anyone needs me, I've got some old film I need developed. Guess where I'm going?