Jul 12, 2004 23:35
A conversation.
Enter a lady.
Before the door closes behind her, she begins bitching about a certain video store's late fee's that she "will not pay" because they are "ridiculous". Her tone is arrogant, snotty and all those other things that people think will help them get what they want. She rants as she walks by the counter, and then continues in to the store. Cut to a few minutes later. She comes back up, bitches some more. A certain video store clerk looks at her account. She's had 61 lates, $330 total late fees collected. I guess she decided that after all this, our fee's are ridiculous. I'm sure it had nothing to do with her perhaps not liking the movie or something else like that. Either way, I note the movie is a release from within two weeks. I explain to her that we're out of that movie every night and we definitely would have rented it had she returned it on time instead of 2 days late.
Retarded woman: "That's bullshit."
Anonymous video store clerk: "No, ma'am, I guarantee you, that movie is rented out every night."
Retarded woman: "Well, you only get a few movies anyway."
Anonymous video store clerk: "I'm sorry? I don't understand."
Retarded woman: "You only get a few movies each week anyway, I just will stop coming here."
Anonymous video store clerk: "We don't really have any control over which titles are released."
Retarded woman: "You only get a few of each movie anyway!"
Anonymous video store clerk: "Well, that would make it even more imperative that movies are returned that way other people can rent them..."
Retarded woman: "And you guys never ask to sign my card! That late fee is ridiculous, it's bullshit, I won't pay it. Fine - I'll just stop coming here."
Retarded woman leaves to go back in the store.
Returns minutes later with The Butterfly Effect. Hands it to me.
Anonymous video store clerk: "So..."
Retarded woman: "So!"
Anonymous video store clerk: "I'm confused. What is going on here?"
Retarded woman: "I'm PAYING the fee and RENTING that movie", said in very sarcastic and belittling tone
Anonymous video store clerk: "Oh, well it's just that you said you weren't going to rent here anymore, is all. That will be $14.80"
Retarded woman throws three $5 bills at me.
Retarded woman: "Your late fee's are ridiculous. I want to speak to your boss. What's his phone number?"
Anonymous video store clerk: "Well, he doesn't like people calling him, but I can have him call you whenever is convenient, if you'd like."
Retarded woman: "I want to speak with him! What's his phone number?"
Anonymous video store clerk: "He doesn't like it being given out..."
Retarded woman: "What's his name?"
Anonymous video store clerk: "Chong Ling."
Retarded woman: "Chong.... Ling?"
Anonymous video store clerk: "That's correct."
Retarded woman: "OH! Well THAT figures."
Anonymous video store clerk: "What, exactly, do you mean by that?"
Retarded woman: "I don't need to explain myself to you."
Anonymous video store clerk: "Oh, you don't need to, I'll make sure my boss knows you said that, though."
Retarded woman: "It didn't mean anything."
Anonymous video store clerk: "Please, if you want to think racist thoughts, that's your business, but if you have to make racist comments, you can get out of the store."
Retarded woman: "That was not racist."
Anonymous video store clerk: "It certainly was."
Retarded woman: "You just misunderstood."
Anonymous video store clerk: "There really isn't more than one way to understand what you meant."
Retarded woman: "I didn't say ANYTHING racist."
Anonymous videos tore clerk: "Oh, PLEASE. Right, you find out my boss is Asian, and you say "OH, that FIGURES". Not racist at all."
Retarded woman stops responding. I take her DVD, take it around the side and hold it up for her to take.
Retarded woman: "You didn't sign my card!"
Anonymous video store clerk: "Uh, that's my initial right there, the only one in blue ink, which is the colour of the pen I am still holding in my hand."
Retarded woman proceeds to walk around to get her DVD.
Anonymous video store clerk: "Okay, this is due back tomorrow night by 11."
Retarded woman: "I KNOW that!"
Anonymous video store clerk: "Apparently not..."
Retarded woman gets the "well, I never!" type of look on her face and storms out. Retarded woman's retarded husband enters.
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "Yeah. You were just talking to my wife?"
Anonymous video store clerk: "Yes, I was."
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "My wife is NOT racist."
Anonymous video store clerk: "Racist comments, make you a racist."
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "My wife is NOT racist. She works with mental health patients."
Anonymous video store clerk: *solemn blink, indicating that I am still waiting for an explanation of how that is relevant*
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "I want to speak to your boss!"
Anonymous video store clerk: "I already told your wife, he will call you."
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "I want to speak to him NOW! Person to person."
Anonymous video store clerk: "He's not here."
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "Why the hell not!"
For 5 minutes this goes on, basically me saying that my boss is not here all the time because he runs multiple businesses and the whole concept behind hiring staff is so you do not have to be at the business the entire time. The man then cuts back to explaining that his wife is not racist.
Anonymous video store clerk: "What your wife said was racist, she implied that the fact my boss is Asian explains our "ridiculous" late fees."
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "You just misinterpreted what she meant."
Anonymous video store clerk: "What did she mean then?"
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "I don't know. I wasn't there."
Anonymous video store clerk: "How then do you know, for sure, what she DIDN'T mean, if you don't have a clue what she DID mean?"
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "My wife isn't racist!"
Anonymous video store clerk: "I can't think of one single different way to interpret what your wife said other than it being racist."
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "Then maybe you're not very intelligent."
Anonymous video store clerk: "Maybe you're just an asshole?"
Retarded woman's retarded husband: "Oh, and what's YOUR name for when I talk to your boss?"
Doug: "Doug."
So, let's see, this dumb bitch got owned several times, called in the cavalry, I owned him, she rented anyway AND paid the fee.