Column: Americans have forgotten how to behave. And it's time to stop blaming the pandemic (www.yahoo.com)

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Not reasonable, perhaps, but theoretically understandable. The escalating price of just about everything implies an increase in value that, in most cases, is not delivered. So some folks simply create their own perks — giving vent to rage or breaking traditional rules of social conduct (i.e., doing whatever the hell they want.)

If you feel you are paying VIP prices, you may well expect to be treated like a VIP.

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Before the pandemic, I once saw a grown-ass woman grab shit from a toilet and smear it all over the interior and exterior of the bathroom of the CVS I worked at

And this was in a mostly upper crust fancy New England white people town too

Burger-Americans have never known how to behave

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

I hear that and I just have to name some sort of mental illness as cause, though. There has to be a major interrupt in your processes to perform an action like that.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure it was just because she was mad her prescription wasn't ready yet

[-] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

this is why you make no excuses for the terror, the aggrieved petit bourgeois become completely unhinged

[-] bumblebeehellbringer@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Perhaps it was a prescription for her mental health

[-] trudge@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Three months ago, I was sitting in a toilet stall in Target. Through the giant gaping hole under the stall, I saw a man crack open a fresh bottle of iced tea, pour it on the floor, and then do it again since he deemed that he didn't pour it enough the first time around.

Gringos are not okay.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Los gringos sta malo

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Someone did this at a Skechers I worked at in college. There was shit on everything.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I wasn't getting paid enough to deal with it, so I just locked the bathroom, tied off the door leading to it with a garbage bag (that door didn't have a lock on it) and left a sign saying "Biohazard: Do Not Enter"

Since I was acting manager at the time, I just called a cleaning company and paid them with the store account

Wasn't gonna foist that off on the two teenagers working the floor that day