This story reminds me of two different issues I had at the local Wal*Mart. (Yeah, Iowa isn't big on other stores)
Anyways, so the long hair works wonders for gathering attention from the authority figures, especially in Corn Country, U.S.A. So anyways, I was checking out the toy section cause I like looking to see how close jakks comes to making good like-nesses of wrestlers. Anyways, I notice this guy (which Wal*Mart doesn't have security suits, so much as undercover guys who think they can act normal, by staring) & he was standing at the end of the isle.. just glaring a hole through me.
So, I'm standing, facing the shelves.. long hair, oh, trench coat too.. cause it was winter at the time. (not that I wouldn't sacrifice heat in the summer to look damn good in that coat, but thats another story for another thread.. ANYWAYS) I picked up one of the figures, turned directly facing the guy, then acted shocked, turned my back to him & dropped the figure on the ground. My coat is long enough, that he couldn't of seen me drop this figure.. so I start walking rather fast outta the isle..
Naturally, about 1 minute later.. this dumbass actually stops me & asks if I've found everything okay. I look at him & ask why he'd care, since he doesn't have a name tag or anything on, so naturally.. he doesn't work there?! lol And he was like "Well, I've never seen you before & I know the store cause I live in town, I just thought I could help." (He's saying this, all the while he's checking me out, from top to bottom, literally foreseeable) So my reply was plain & simple.. "Yeah, I'm not actually from town.. but where I am from, when another man looks at me the way you did, I kinda get an uneasy feeling you're about to ask for my number.. & I'm just not into that sorta thing." He literally had no reply other then.. "Well have a nice day."
The other time was simply about I'd say 7-8 years back, if that.. my friends & I were out late just wondering the store. We decided to try on a bunch of different hats they had, & naturally then I was an ass.. so I wanted to walk around the store with a cowboy hat on, get a dozen fake flowers & start asking girls to marry me.. (who wouldn't do that, seriously?) Well.. I get stopped by management & ordered! to put the hat up.
So I asked what if I wanted to buy it, & I was trying it out? And the guy flat out said.. "If you're buying it, then please make your purchase, but don't wear something you don't know where its been. It could have lice for all you know." And literally, I threw the hat & was like "What the ****, you sell shit with lice?! What kinda ****ed up store are you running?!" Needless to say, I was escorted out of the store for my not so quiet conversation with the store management.. but come on, what kinda reply is that?!
