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[apocalypsos]

Spotted on Not Always Right, from a coffee shop ...

(Note: I’m a customer and overhear this exchange while waiting in line.)

Barista: “Here’s your change… have a nice day.”

Customer: “You know, you haven’t smiled once.”

Barista: “Sorry.”

Customer: “I’m so sick of the attitude of people in the service industry! Is it so hard to give your customers a smile as you’re pouring water through beans? You all are so arrogant, it makes me sick!”

Barista: *eyes begin to well up*

Customer: “Why aren’t you smiling?!”

Barista: “…because my father died last night.”

(At this point, you could hear a pin drop. The customer is literally glared out of the shop, forgetting her coffee.)

Comments

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I had a guidance counselor in high school who wouldn't let me leave her office until I smiled for her. Because clearly that would make me the happy peppy creature she wanted me to be. (She also, incidentally, gave phenomenally bad college advice.)

[missburnout.livejournal.com]

That sounds creepily like my own guidance counselor. She also suspected one of my friends of being a druggy, one for being depressed/suicidal, another one that cut herself, all because we weren't the popular kids. Ugh.