Don Foreman wrote:

I think it's less of a moral dilemma than a question of what response (and
by whom) is appropriate.

My approach would have been to quietly tell the cashier what had happened.
How she and the store respond to that re the offender is then their
call -- not mine.




Despite having a sign on my office wall reading, "There is no right way
to do the wrong thing," that would be my approach too. And, I wouldn't
be suprised If I got a look and a shrug from the cashier who probably
wouldn't want to have to explain her error to someone higher up.

Which reminds me......

Just last month I was pushing a cart with 440 pounds of lawn limestone
to the garden center checkout of a local Home Depot, and because it was
a pain to get it moving from a stop I let about a five foot gap
accumulate between me and the person ahead of me, who was being checked
out. When that fellow got through I urged my cart into motion and just
as it began rolling some big lunk swooped in in front of me with a
shopping cart full of merchandise.

I said, "Excuse me, I've been waiting in this line." He gave me a foul
look and said, "Too bad, you gotta keep moving", and the cashier began
scanning his stuff. He was about the size of a Sumo wrestler and
speaking with an slurred eastern european accent like he was half in the
bag already.

I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and figured a
couple of minutes wait was an acceptable alternative to getting into
God's knows what with that guy. But, the woman behind me couldn't keep
her mouth shut and said something like, "I guess they don't teach
children courtesy where he comes from", loudly enough for the swine to
hear. That set him off and he started shouting, "F**K you!" at the woman
and me over and over and over again all the while the cashier was
ringing up his stuff.

People started looking and wondering what was going on, and I was hoping
the cashier would hit his panic button (assuming they have them) and get
a security guy to come over, but that didn't happen. The guy finished
up, paid and left. I did the same, but I kept my eyes open while I went
to my car and loaded it just in case he decided it was me who needed a
lesson.

Now, Harold et all, what would you guys do in *that* HD situation?

Jeff


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