Sounds Like She Was A Bit Cross

I’m a Norse Pagan, meaning I worship Odin, Freya, Loki, Thor, etc. I have a haircut similar to Ragnar Lothbrok on the show “Vikings”, as many of us Pagans have that haircut.

A weird thing happened to me whilst I was at work. I work at a car wash where we manually clean the cars. As I was scrubbing a car, the woman driving jumped out of her car and ran to me with a cross in her hand.

Woman: “SATAN, BEGONE! REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THIS PERSON! TURN THEM AWAY FROM SATAN!”

Me: “What the actual f***?”

My coworkers removed her. Apparently, she had seen my haircut and said, “That is Pagan hair — the hair of Satan!”

Shortly after that, her husband stepped out and apologised for his wife’s behaviour. I actually got to have an early break and had a sit down with him, as the car wash had a cafe. He told me their son had come out as gay four days earlier, and his mother didn’t approve, so she’d been — and I quote — “OVERLY RELIGIOUS” lately.

But the dad accepted him, so that was good.

The good news is that the woman is banned from the car wash. We have a no-tolerance policy for customers who get violent or verbally abuse employees. Luckily, the husband didn’t.