A WALGREEN INCIDENT
I’d just entered Walgreen’s when a man started to berate
the cashier for not giving him an instant refund on some little things in his
hands. To me it looked like some candy bars. She was trying to explain
to him that the manager would have to handle it for some reason.
He started by calling her stupid for not being able to
give him the refund and he had his wife waiting for him in the car and wanted
his money this minute because he had no time for such nonsense from such an inept person. Just then a male
employee approached him and asked him to please calm down. He started yelling at
him, too, so the employee said either he was quiet or he would call the police, as he escorted him to a door near the rear of the store where a woman came out
to talk to him. She must have been the store manager.
I was getting things from the cooler in the area right next to where the woman was still listening to him shouting. The male employee
said he would get him the money as I headed for the checkout counter.
As I got there, I looked back and heard the man talking
loudly to a woman standing in front of the photo department. Then he started to
scream at her, too when she told him to pipe down and he walked quickly away from
her and told her to go f---- herself. As he stomped out of the store, he yelled
at the cashier whose line I was in, saying he was reporting her to headquarters
for her stupidity and he would remember what she looked like. One of the other
clerks went out and said he had left with the woman by the photo department, who was his wife.
The people standing in line all said that he was a
terrible person to act like did. When it was my turn to pay, the clerk told me
she was still shaking because she had never been so scared. That’s when it dawned on
me that this is Florida where all kinds of crazy people are able to buy guns
and have concealed weapon permits and for the first time I felt vulnerable and realized
what might have happened if he came back into the store and I was standing by that
clerk.
That’s when I really got scared.
