I was on the other side of the counter on Black Friday and here is my report. Basically a cut and paste job from my post on the Black Friday thread at ADT.


I'm starting to believe the only way to save Planet Earth is to nuke it from orbit. It certainly seems that man is devolving.
What makes me say that? Was it the naked guy in the parking lot who thought he was a zombie and kept trying to bite people? No, he at least had the good judgment to bite the most unpopular and incompetent assistant manager of the store I work at.

Was it the lady who accidentally knocked a fire extinguisher off a support column with her shopping cart and manage to cake the entire electronics department where I was working in a layer of fire retardant dust? No, I'm not nuking an entire planet just because of one clumsy person.

It's because of the late teen/early 20something woman who rode up to me in a handicapped cart and ask me if there was an age limit to driving one. She was obviously not handicapped and only lazy. She asked me why every customer was giving her dirty looks and then said "I just feel like riding around is that illegal?" I told her no but it was awfully rude and not all respectful or courteous to people who actually are handicapped and do need that cart. Her response is what has driven me to my nuking the planet to be safe scenario. "What do you mean?" I explained to her that this is the busiest day of the year and that there are likely to be many people who actually need the cart that she doesn't and that even if no one needed it at this particular moment all she was doing was running down the battery on it.

Now I know the response some people will give me. "You don't know for sure she wasn't handicapped just because she didn't look like she was does not mean anything." I flat out accused her of not needing the cart and she never defended herself. If she was truly handicapped she would have been offended by my actions. As it was she just turned around and rode back off after listening to me answer her question with the same look in her eyes a cow has when it watches a train go by. If this is the generation we are leaving this planet to humanity is flat out fucked in the ass.


Actually I could have cut out the first part of that last paragraph, other than maybe Charin there is absolutely no one here who is going to reply in that way.

Oh and in case all the Tritones and Jigaloos are keeping score out there the woman was white as was the woman who set off the fire extinguisher with her cart. Have no idea what color the zombie in the parking lot was.