Tony Yarusso's Blog

So we had someone come into the store today, just doing your usual browsing around and such, and it was pretty slow at the time. For a while, everything was normal, until:

I should probably buy a lock for my bike too. There are a lot of Hispanics in my neighborhood. They steal stuff a lot.

She then went on (and on....) to talk about how she can't even concentrate in the grocery store because there are so many of them around and she's worried about losing stuff, etc. Wow lady, just wow.

So now we as store employees are all faced with a dilemma. Do we:

1. Collapse laughing because it's been totally quiet until then and now she's utterly ridiculous
2. Make a snide comment about why she doesn't just move, to entertain ourselves further
3. Hit her with a wrench for the betterment of society because she's a moron, or
4. Just ring her up for the lock to please the corporate image, but then mock her for the rest of the day

?

We ended up opting for d), sadly, but made full use of the latter portion. One of the points that came up - why call them Hispanics? If you're going to be a racist idiot, why bother using the politically correct term in your blatant stereotyping, rather that something either more generic, or offensive, while you're at it? All the funnier that she was trying to cover up her skewed little mind. Oh, and we did some of a) and b) after she left too, but just by ourselves.