Fisticuffs at the Supermarket

[tripperfunster]

So ... I'm shopping for groceries after work tonight, and I need a few essentials, so my cart is semi-full. I begin to unload my cart, and a man walks up behind me with just some milk and eggs.

I would have let him go ahead of me, but the cashier had already started to ring throught my stuff, but Oh Well.

Anyway, the cashier is almost done with my order, and the guy behind me (who had been huffing with impatience the whole time) says to the bagger in the next lane,

Guy: Hey! I've got a suggestion for the guy in the white shirt! Why don't you stop bagging and open up a new line so people like me don't have to wait so long.

The bagger (who probably didn't have the skills or authority to do so) just smiles and shrugs nervously.

Guy: Look! There's $140 over here (my total) and $200 over there. I've only got milk and eggs. What the hell is wrong with this store?

So, the lady in the next isle tells him (nicely) to calm down.

Guy:I will not calm down! You mind your own business, I'm not talking to you.

Lady: These people are just trying to do their jobs, give them a break.

Guy: You shut up, or you'll be wearing these eggs. (holds them up in a threatening manner)

Of course, the guy is like a foot away from me, and I just cannot STAND douche-baggery, so I chime in.

Me: Dude, chill out.

Guy: Shut your mouth, I'm not even talking to you.

Me: Well, you're talking to me now, and I'm telling you that you have to calm down.

Guy: DON'T YOU FUCKIN TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

Me: Hey! Don't talk to me like that, I'm not your bitch!

At this point, I'm done paying, so I get my grocieries and head out. He's still chirping at me and everyone else, so I just give him the 'talk to the hand' thing, and say Whatev.

As it ends up, he is parked two cars away from me, and comes out while I'm loading groceries into my car.

Guy: You'd better watch who you're talking to! blablablablabla

Keep in mind, it is dark out and there are very few cars in the lot. I realize that I should probably keep my mouth shut, but I CANNOT!

Me: Eat me, asshole.

He gets in his car and almost runs over the guy collecting the carts. I warn him just in time, and the kid manages to get out of the way. Mr. Douche peels out and drives away.

*siiiiiigh*

What the fuck is wrong with people? And may I point out, that only me and that one other woman said anything to this abusive asshole. There were at least 6 other people (a few of them men) and everyone just sort of looked at their feet.

Comments

[theficklepickle.livejournal.com]

The guy was obviously looking for a fight and he didn't care who it was with. You can't do anything right in a situation like that; store security should have intervened but I'm guessing they were either ineffectual or non-existent. Don't waste time second-guessing yourself, I would probably have done much the same - and indeed have. There are just some people in the world who think they're more important than anybody else and the rules don't apply to them and they're incredibly aggravating.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know there was nothing I could have said to change his mind, or calm him down, but I guess I just needed to let him know that YOUR BEHAVOUR IS UNACCEPTABLE AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT.

I think, if more people would speak out, the assholes wouldn't feel like they own the place so much.

I'm not talking anarchy, of course, but just enforcing simple manners and such.

[xenafox.livejournal.com]

o_o What a piece of shit! Holy hell, I'd have told the dumbfuck off as well. What is with customers and their entitlement issues? No one likes to wait in long grocery lines but we man up and do it anyway.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

man it up hee! That saying never fails to crack me up. I wish I'd used it!

[perverse-idyll.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Rage-a-holic alert! You can't reason with that type of entitled arsewipe; they generally want someone to call them on their bullshit so that they have a 'reason' to take it to the next level.

Also, from a retail POV, I have to laugh at his logic fail: "Look at those inconsiderate dopes in front of me giving you hundreds of dollars! My five dollar purchase is totes more important than all that inconvenient cash they're forking over!" From the store's perspective, he's not exactly making a case for himself.

I'm just glad there was no further escalation in the parking lot. And sorry about the probable adrenaline aftermath.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

they generally want someone to call them on their bullshit so that they have a 'reason' to take it to the next level.
yeah, I'm guessing that's why none of the men said anything, because I'm SURE it would have gotten physical.

And yes, as a retail store owner, the irony of his rant was not at all lost on me. ;^p

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

WTF DUDE SRSLY DO NOT START THINGS WITH CRAZY PEOPLE.

I am a paranoid at heart, so I fear for everyone's lives like all the time omgggg.

That said - wtf to people not saying anything. When someone begins to swear like that, you'd think SOMEONE other than tone woman and the tiny (albeit very fierce!) blonde lady would say something, wtf.

IN CONCLUSION - YOU ARE SO FIERCE. DO NOT MESS WITH TINY ARTISTS.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

It would not surprise me one bit if my method of death is due to something like this.

I just get this MASSIVE indignation when people are mean to other people. I CANNOT STOP MYSELF.

And even at the time, I was thinking ... he is totally going to punch me in the face .. and I was thinking BRING IT ON, ASSHOLE! For I have no testicles, and when we're done, he won't either.

I have never been in an actual fight (although I did punch a guy in the face once).

keep in mind too, that this is Winnipeg. The odds of this guy having a gun are pretty slim.

OTOH, I would not be so stupid to break up a bar fight. Might higher likelyhood of gunplay/knifeplay there.

[synn.livejournal.com]

what a dickhead. That said, one of the cashiers or baggers should have notified a supervisor as soon as the guy started cursing or yelling. It's not the customers' responsibility to deal with inconsiderate jackasses.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh, the poor people bagging and cashing were just kids. Not coincidentally, the two people who spoke up were middle aged women.

WE DON'T TAKE NO SHIT! :D

That said, I may have a chat with the store manager the next time I'm there, so that they can TELL THE KIDS what to do in a situation like that.

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Tripp, he could've clocked you! I'm so glad you're intact and eggless. The idiot was the bagger who should've gone for the manager. But there're douche bags everywhere, and you found one. But remember, I iz a nice bitch. :) And there are pah-lenty of nice people in the world, but it just takes a run-in with a moron like this to make you feel we're outnumbered. (((hugs)))

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh, my faith in humanity isn't shaken. Just the fact that that other woman spoke up made me happy.

Plus, after the douche drove away, the cart guy asked what happened, and then he got all puffed up and indignant and was all: "he's lucky *I* wasn't in there! :D So cute!

And yeah, there was a pretty good chance of clockage about to happen. I was prepared.

[pern-dragon.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, I find myself less than willing to school idiots on basic manners simply because I'm reasonably afraid they're going to either whip out a gun and shoot me in the face or stab me. (Srsly, here in Vegas a couple of years ago, a man was shot in the face ANSWERING HIS DOOR. Doorbell, open it, gunshot to the face, wife running to find out what happened. Yeah, not good. At all.) Same thing goes with unstable people and their road rage. We've been chased before because some fucktard decided we had done something to him, and I was afraid we were gonna get run off the road. Righteous indignation falls in the face of scary unhinged violence.
That being said, I totally applaud you for speaking up, and I'm glad it didn't end up worse (though when he threatened to throw eggs on someone, I would have been unable to NOT bust out laughing--can you imagine if he had, and then ended up in jail for the night having to tell the other tough guys that he was in for throwing eggs on a lady in the supermarket? What sort of tattoos do they do in the big house for that? Angry chickens? *snort*).
*hugs* :)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yes, threatening a woman with eggs was not the studliest thing to do, for sure! :D

I live in Winnipeg, which is pretty small towny. The likelihood of that guy having a gun was slim to none. It could and does happen, of course, but he was just a dude with impotent rage, and I felt the need to take him down a peg.

I just cannot listen to people be abusive to others without speaking up.

[canonfodder123.livejournal.com]

Tripp, you are the coolest person in the world - I so envy your ability to get in there and say something! Just, you know, be careful at the same time :-)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Hey sweetie! How are you??

i am normally a fairly cautious person, but I just see red when people are being bullies.

I certainly wouldn't have started anything with him if there weren't other people around. ...i think ... ;D

[snegurochka_lee]

Ugh, asshole! I feel even worse for the family he might have been going home to in that rage. :((((

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

No kidding! I like to think that he's such an asshole that no one would marry him, but sadly, that probably isn't true.

Pity the person who cuts that man off in traffic! *shudder*

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

The majority of people are morons and assholes. :P It's pathetic, but it's true. But go you standing up to him. :)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Actually, just the fact that the other woman said something, and that the cart guy got all "wut??? Lucky I wasn't in there" restored my faith in humanity.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

holy moley, what a douche! (hey, maybe you could draw all your fave characters getting medieval on this guy ass!)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

nah, I wouldn't waste my time drawing that jerk off.

I said my bit, I'm done with him. ;D

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

:)

[mudblood428.livejournal.com]

Abusive is right! I got scared that at the end of that whole thing he was going to hit you or something! My God.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

There was a real possibility that it could have escalated to that.

I'm sure a punch in the face is way more romantic in the movies than in RL. :D

I'm little like you, but I'm tough.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

thanks! At least it made for an interesting evening!

[avialle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my workplace every day. Okay, not really. X^D It's more like the internal dialog we are all saying to ourselves. X^D

People are generally impatient and can act like asswipes sometimes. Glad you made it through unscathed!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you gotta wonder, HOW FUCKING IMPORTANT did that guy think he was? I can assure you that he wasn't late to perform brain surgery or anything.

[kerosinkanister.livejournal.com]

That guy sounds like a real cockwad!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

yeah, he was pretty spayshul.