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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Florian" data-source="post: 1911938" data-attributes="member: 13653">More from "Tales of a Stop-n-Rob":  This guy pulls up at Pump 5 and wants to pre-pay gas--he wants to fill his tank, and he has a $100. Now, I didn't have NEARLY enough cash in the register to make change for that, even if he got more than $20. So I asked him if he had any smaller bills and told him why, and he pitched a FIT. He started bitching that he wanted to fill his tank, he wasn't EVEN listening when I told him that I didn't have change for his bill, and then he said (get THIS), "Why you give me this problem? I'm not black!"--WHILE, I might add, there were black customers at the window (all regular customers of mine, too). I looked at this dumbass Russkie zeeb (he counted his $13 in singles in Russian and had a thick Russian accent, that's how I know he was Russian), and said "Mister, I don't care if you're green with red stripes--I don't have change in the register for this bill. If you're willing to wait, I'll put all $100 on the pump and you can pump your gas, and while you're doing that I'll help these other people and hopefully get enough money to make change for you."   So I prepaid $100 on Pump 5, and helped everyone else while this clownboat was pumping his gas. One dude asked me WTF the guy's problem was, and I just said "he thinks he's special." But I managed to get enough change for him when the gas he pumped came out to a whopping $21. I counted that $79 back to him--in Russian, I might add--and told him AGAIN that we don't keep change for Benjamins in the register, and that I tell everyone that regardless of the color of their skin.  Did he listen?  No--but it did set him back a pace when I very carefully counted his change back to him in his native tongue. He asked me where I learned Russian, and I held up my textbook (which I've been taking to work with me so I can get back into practice) and just smiled.  He left rather quickly after that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  And then there are the usual allotment of drunks, which are always fun to deal with. North Carolina has a dram shop law, which basically states that if you know a customer is intoxicated you can't sell him (or her) alcohol. Trying to tell a drunk who speaks no English that he can't buy beer because he's had too much (when you don't know enough Spanish to tell him that he can't buy any beer from you because he's had too much) is always fun, but not as much fun as a drunk anglophone who thinks that just because he lives two blocks away, that means he can buy beer even when he's drunk.  Uhhh....no.  North Carolina also stops all alcohol sales after 2:00 AM, which makes it even more fun when somebody pulls up after 2:00 AM and thinks that I'll sell him beer--especially when he thinks that calling me everything but a Moon Pie and threatening my job will get me to "just give him a $BRAND".  Sorry, also no. But I get my fun with those types by pointing to the camera that's just over my shoulder and saying "By the way, you're being recorded right now. If you really want to complain about me, feel free--my manager comes in after 8:00 AM and she'll be happy to talk to you. She'll also be happy to laugh you out of the store when she goes back to look at the tape and see that 1) it's after 2:00 AM and 2) you tried to intimidate the least-intimidatable employee in the store into selling you a beer outside of the legal sales hours."  And yes, I've had a couple idiots come and complain. And yes, my manager not only laughed them out of the store but also told them "you'll have to get your beer elsewhere, because if any of my employees see you on our lot again they're going to call the cops and have you removed. Have a nice day."</blockquote>

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