• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    one of my favorite “welcome to ____” experiences was when i moved to Utah. I went to the local grocer and bought some San Pellegrino. the cashier carded me. now i’ve worked retail, so [most likely] this was her first day (the POS tells you when to check someone’s ID) or [i’ve learned not to overestimate Utahns, so also most likely] she somehow had no understanding of what i was buying. i somwhat bemusedly told her i’d show my ID to her manager. when the manager came over, i pointed to the bottles and told him the cashier wanted to see my ID.

    i may have memory problems from time to time, but the look on the cashier’s face when her manager told her I was buying water will remain with me til the day i die.

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        1 day ago

        Right. No reason, like they manager needs to know they’re pulling this bullshit so either they were trained wrong or not at all. And the her incorrect behavior won’t get fixed if no one speaks up. But sure, she was right because she humiliated herself