Too good not to share
[dubhain posted this to his journal, but since his journal is Friends Only, I asked him if I could repost it here. Enjoy!]
mlion just got off the 'phone with her mother.
Apparently, M'lionDad went to the UPS shipping office this afternoon. Naturally, it being the Giftmas season, the place was crowded as hell.
As the line moved slowly along, a woman talking on her cellphone got her chance at the counter. She stepped-up, still nattering away on the cellphone. The clerk tried to help her. She wouldn't interrupt her telephone call to speak to the clerk. She made it obvious she expected him to wait until her call was finished. The clerk, seeing the line behind her, kept trying to engage her, with no success.
Finally, the man behind her in line walked up to her and said "Lady, either get off the 'phone and do your business or get out of line."
Her response? A snappish "You wouldn't talk that way to me if my husband were here!"
Man: "Where's your husband?"
Woman: "He's outside, in the truck."
Man: "What's your truck look like?"
Woman: [Describes truck.]
Man: Goes outside, finds truck, talks to husband.
Husband: [Comes inside, takes cellphone away from his wife, closes it.] "You do your business. Now."
Man: Smiles.
Woman: Sputters.
Husband: Ignores sputtering, insists she attend to her business there.
The couple leaves afterward, with her screaming incoherently at her husband, and he having none of it. M'lionDad reports that the crowd in line was cheering him as he ushered his screaming wife out the door.
Final score: Asshats 0, Menschen: 2.
mlion just got off the 'phone with her mother.
Apparently, M'lionDad went to the UPS shipping office this afternoon. Naturally, it being the Giftmas season, the place was crowded as hell.
As the line moved slowly along, a woman talking on her cellphone got her chance at the counter. She stepped-up, still nattering away on the cellphone. The clerk tried to help her. She wouldn't interrupt her telephone call to speak to the clerk. She made it obvious she expected him to wait until her call was finished. The clerk, seeing the line behind her, kept trying to engage her, with no success.
Finally, the man behind her in line walked up to her and said "Lady, either get off the 'phone and do your business or get out of line."
Her response? A snappish "You wouldn't talk that way to me if my husband were here!"
Man: "Where's your husband?"
Woman: "He's outside, in the truck."
Man: "What's your truck look like?"
Woman: [Describes truck.]
Man: Goes outside, finds truck, talks to husband.
Husband: [Comes inside, takes cellphone away from his wife, closes it.] "You do your business. Now."
Man: Smiles.
Woman: Sputters.
Husband: Ignores sputtering, insists she attend to her business there.
The couple leaves afterward, with her screaming incoherently at her husband, and he having none of it. M'lionDad reports that the crowd in line was cheering him as he ushered his screaming wife out the door.
Final score: Asshats 0, Menschen: 2.