Let's Take It Outside!

As far as retail stories go, this one has to take the cake as one of my favourites. This story actually JUST happened a few weeks ago and has already taken the mantel as one of those awesome (in a horrific kind of way...) stories.

Anyways, so one afternoon when I was working, I was walking around the store and putting things away and talking to customers. There were a couple employees working up at cash and ringing people through. So as I'm still working away, I start hearing a ruckus at the cash and walk over to see what the problem is.

Picture this for me; there are two sets of people in line, four people total. A grandmother with her granddaughter and this white trailer trash couple consisting of a girl who was most definitely high on something and her boyfriend, who was at least 6'2" and weighed probably 250-300 pounds.

The young couple had been waiting in line, but they were browsing stuff in the queue line product section, so the grandmother and granddaughter had thought that they were still looking and went to go up to the cash to pay. The white trash girl looked up and saw them trying to pay and started freaking out. She started yelling at the grandma to wait her turn in line and that they were there first and they should learn some manners... yadda yadda yadda.

This started a whole thing with the grandma and her granddaughter. The trailer trash girl was swearing, cursing and such. The grandma turned to the girl and just basically said sorry she didn't know. She then asked the girl to stop swearing as there are people who are offended by that language around.

Now I'm just going to take this moment to add in that I work in a middle-upper class mall and we generally don't get a lot of white trash in the area since the stores are mostly pretty pricey.

After they asked the trailer trash girl to stop swearing this started her on a whole rant, "This is a free f**king country, a**holes, I can f**king whatever the f**k I want and you can't f**king do anything about it, so f**k you!"

The grandma proceeded to tell the girl that they shouldn't let her kind into this mall and she should be banned from the mall and not be allowed to come back and if she said anything else to her, she was going to report them to security. So now things are just crazy and the people are all yelling at each other and the staff are just trying to get the people rung through and out of the store. One of the cashiers got everything rung through for the grandma and granddaughter and finished the transaction and they started to leave the store. Everything has generally calmed down and then the grandma says something like, "Baah, white trash..."

Then the boyfriend decides to pipe up (please refer back to mental image of giant white trash hillbilly boyfriend...) and he puffs up his chest and yells after the grandma, "Let's take this outside!"

The grandma turns around appalled by the gall of this idiot and just continues to walk out of the store. At this point in the time, the boyfriend decides to finish off this notion with "That's RIIIGHT, bittttches!" and laughs with his girlfriend and looks to the staff for approval... But by this time we were all horrified and just wanted them to leave.

But seriously. This guy tried to fight an old lady. Seriously. People...