I was kinda expecting to be over the whole 'rants against the pandemic/mask wearing' thing.
Like yes, many places are requiring their workers to wear masks. And event places are requiring either masks to be worn, or to show proof of vaccination or a negative test.
But overall....the amount of angry antis I've had to deal with since we stopped requiring customers to wear masks in the store has dropped drastically. To practically nonexistent.
Except today.
Today I had an old man wearing a "Trump will be back 2024" hat with a bunch of military pins on it...come into the store.
*exhales* Wished I would have noticed the hat sooner, else I would have stayed far away from the dude and sent someone else to help him. Because if someone is wearing the Cheeto's gear? They almost always cause trouble in the store.
And this dude? Yah.
He came in with an empty container of RepCal Tortoise Food. Needed to buy another one.
Which the packaging looked semi-familiar to me. So I figured that we still carried it.
Wrongo.
We do still have the RepCal brand in the store. But we only sell the Bearded Dragon and Iguana food.
No tortoise food in sight.
So I tried to show the guy the other options we had available for his tortoise to eat.
He wasn't taking any of them. Because apparently the pellets were too big. The tortoise would only eat a particular size. And if it wasn't a nice small pellet. The tortoise wouldn't eat it.
*exhales*
I tried to explain that unfortunately we don't carry that particular food anymore.
He didn't like that.
Pointed out that we did carry the brand of food. Gestured to the Bearded Dragon and Iguana food to prove his point.
Which yes. We do carry the brand. But not the tortoise food within the brand.
-I looked online later to see if we do carry it. And we do...but it's an ONLINE ONLY food now. And with the grandpa age of this dude...I highly doubt he's into using the computer to get his food. Probably is one of those people who believes the internet will steal their personal information. *shakes head*
In any case.
I told him we didn't have the food anymore.
And he started ranting at me. That he bought the food from us, from our store specifically, FIFTEEN years ago. At the same time he'd bought his tortoise.
And somewhere in that Fifteen years...he'd moved to California and then back here.
And I don't know if he's been buying the food from a store in Cali. Or if he managed to stock up fifteen years ago on the food and just ran out.
But like...he did state that it took around 2.5 months to use up a bottle.
And maybe we did still have the food 2.5 months ago. Product comes in and out of stock and gets rebranded and repackaged and such all the time.
Needless to say. We didn't have it now.
And he couldn't understand it.
If he's been buying the same bottle for fifteen years or at least fifteen years ago. Then obviously we should still have it.
*exhales* He couldn't understand that product could go out of stock. That we would stop carrying it if it wasn't a popular seller.
And who knows. With the pandemic it gets even more tricky because it could be a production issue, it could be a supplier issue, it could be a variety of things.
And the old man....hated that. Hated that he couldn't buy the one food he's been buying for fifteen years.
Which I get it. It sucks. A good food vanishes and you're left with a 'now what' feeling.
But then the dude just went on a rant. Like it was my personal fault that he couldn't buy his food. He started telling me that I would need to hustle for the rest of my life in my job in order to keep it.
Why? Because they're pushing 125,000 immigrants (his number not mine) over the border every single day and every one of them is positive for the Virus.
Like it took everything I had to not roll my eyes. I was like "That's not true. And I'm vaccinated so I don't care."
But like dude. SHUT UP. Immigrants are coming into our country every single day. From all over the world.
But you can bet he wouldn't have a problem with the immigrants if they come from England, or France, Or Germany.
No, he's just a racist dude who believes that 'third world countries' are purposely sending their sick to us.
Can you feel me rolling my eyes? Because I am rolling my eyes.
You know why the pandemic is still prevalent?
Because AMERICANS can't freaking wear a mask without throwing a huge temper tantrum about it.
I know. I've had to deal with WHITE people. The Karens. The rednecks. The old men. It's all them who have thrown the temper tantrums. It's THEM who refuse to wear masks. Refuse to get vaccinated. Refuse to listen to science and reason and instead chase after stupid conspiracy theories and lifestock medicine to 'cure and protect' themselves instead of doing the SMART thing and getting vaccinated and wearing a mask and social distancing.
Just. GAH.
And this old man wearing a stupid Trump hat thinks it's the immigrants causing the spike in cases? HA. No.
But he wouldn't listen. He was like "You know they just let an Afghan refugee into our state and I bet he's positive for the virus too."
Dude. Shut. Your. Lying. Trap. Hole.
He's a refugee. Stop trying to chase him out of yet another country.
In any case.
The dude ranted about the immigrants. How they're carrying the virus, how they're going to steal my job -hence why I have to hustle at my job- and they're the reason why I will be wearing a mask for the rest of my life.
Like Good. Yay me wearing a mask. I like it. Because I don't have people constantly telling me to freaking smile when I'm at work. A mask lets me relax my face and I enjoy it. So boo on you.
The kicker though was the dude was like "I don't care if I get the virus or not. I'm never wearing a mask."
Which I was like. Great. I bet this guy is an anti-vaxxer too.
And it just bugged me.
Because sure. He's old. He's lived his life. Sure he might not care if he catches the virus or not. If he dies from it or not.
But what about his kids?
What about his grandkids?
Do you think he'll be singing the same tune of they end up sick? Hospitalized? DEAD from the pandemic?
We just had a teenager die from the virus the other day.
How would he feel if that was his grandchild? If he could have protected them but instead could have given it to them?
*exhales*
It just irked me.
And after his rant about all that. He was like "What's corporate's number?"
Like dude. I don't know. If you want to call corporate how about you go do that research yourself? Because the reason why you're calling is completely stupid. Yes, I'm sorry we don't have your product anymore, but there's nothing I can do, and more than likely nothing corporate would do.
*shakes head*
So yah. Been a while since I've had an Anti in the store.
I really don't miss it. It totally ruined the day.
And the day was already bad enough. There were a ton of grumpy people in the store today. So my associates and I were totally feeling the bad vibes.
Did. Not. Like.
Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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