Oh dear god...

[conuly]

I guess the thought police had to step in and make sure every thing was PC and sympathy. sad world we live in, it really is. someone can act like a lunatic and i am supposed to be nice to them. *gag*

Yes, you really are supposed to be nice to them. Yes, really. Yes, even if they "act like a lunatic". Yes, even if you think they have an actual disorder like OCD. No, I'm not kidding. No, I'm really not. Nope. You're supposed to be people. Period.

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[conuly]

I don't know if this woman had OCD or not. Neither does the cashier. However, the cashier believes that the customer had OCD and proceeds to say incredibly ignorant things such as "she shouldn't be able to go out without being seriously drugged or institutionalized" and "I shouldn't have to be polite to people whom I suspect of having serious mental problems".

I read the account in the journal. It doesn't sound like the woman snapped at the cashier. As near as I can tell, the exchange went like this: Cashier is working. Somehow, the items fall. The woman stares at them. Cashier points out that there's nothing wrong. UP UNTIL THIS POINT, I DO NOT THINK THE CASHIER DID ANYTHING WRONG OR OFFENSIVE. The woman starts talking to herself about how she'll have to go elsewhere to buy those items now. The cashier, at this point, should have realized that the customer was behaving irrationally and dropped it. I can guarantee you that telling people when they are behaving irrationally never works. Instead, the cashier makes a point of telling her that the items are fine, and then gets upset when, predictably, the woman doesn't calm down.

So far, nobody has been rude.

Then the cashier posts in customers_suck about it (we're still good, okay) and closes with an ignorant and offensive statement. We're not still good. In the comments, the cashier continues to make seriously offensive statements, and calls basic politeness and manners "thought police pcness".

[conuly]

Sorry, correction. The woman did snap at the cashier - but only after the cashier had kept at telling her that she should buy the items she clearly didn't want, several times.

What was the point?