Sunday, August 08, 2010

Where was my camera for peopleatwalmart.com?

So this morning I went to walmart (ugh!) to exchange two items I bought yesterday. They were marked small, and I thought.... hm, I'm small and it's a spandex sort of material, it'll be fine. Nay. It was the most unforgiving fabric on the planet and mocked every inch of my faking being small. Easy exchange no biggie and Mr. Morgan was whining that he had forgotten hot sauce, a huge staple to his diet. He'd eat hot sauce on a pancake if you let him. Fair enough.

I walk up to customer service after checking in my returns and getting the next size up and I instantly see a man in front of me, either in the act of being a cunt, or preparing to be. Either way there was no question that it was kicking off. He hadn't even to my ears made a word but I smelled it. Between his twitchy body language and the look on the face of the poor clerk, I thought.... oooo entertainment.

He smelled me too I guess and swung his posture towards me, lips pursed ready to be a bitch to me for no reason short of my mere proximity. "Can you believe this store????"

I said that yes, I could.
"They have us by the balls, we HAVE to shop here because they know we don't have much money and then they ROB us."
"Probably."

I did give a lean over to see what "needful thing" he was being cheated on and it was a new release DVD, blue ray. I blinked and continued to lightly smile, forever amazed at how people feel entitled and really, only prove to the entire world that they are a certifiable jerk.

He demanded to know why the price was listed wrong and whose head was to blame. The poor clerk tried to deal with him and even me at this point .... kinda had enough of the bullshit. I told him coolly "Ya know....if it makes you feel any better, it's not HER fault personally, she doesn't even work in electronics." I said with a shrug of - mellow the fuck out dude, acting the way you are isn't moving the line.

He didn't want my advice. She told him the sign hadn't been changed overnight and refunded him - fuck you not - 2.15. I about slapped him with my bag for wasting my time on being a bullshit toddler over 2 dollars. First off, pay attention when it's being charged initially, then you don't have to come back with a piss fuck attitude. Secondly if you have rage in your heart at 8am on Sunday in a walmart..... you should have gone to church instead and worked it out with god.

Not to say I don't expect this sort of thing all the time, it's bad times for a lot of people..... but at the same time, they are a greedy, selfish product of how this country is. I love living here, am fortunate. However when things get bad throwing a temper tantrum over a cheeseburger or ....say, a stupid dvd you don't NEED makes Americans look like bratty kindergartners. And everywhere you look, entitled-gimme-because I'm owed it-cocksuckers are ready to pounce, eager to be a prick, question everything, and no matter what are told... not good enough. I felt like telling him to shut the fuck up, did he think he took a wrong turn on Rodeo Drive? This is WALMART you moron, why in the world you expect anything except what as a large group of the consensus knows ABOUT Walmart, so quit acting shocked.

The clerk waved me in with a despair of "please.... just be decent" hope on her face. Not a problem and I was out of there in less than a minute.

- DM