We’re offering the seasonal flu shots, and we get this interesting customer:

Customer: “My grandma got sick after receiving the flu shot you gave her. I looked into it online and you must have given her that new type of shot that was designed by President Obama to kill off old people.”

Me: “No. She got the same brand of shot last year. The strain changes based on season, but it certainly was not a new shot.”

Just so you all know, most people who claim they got the flu from the shot already had the flu when they received the shot or were exposed in the two weeks it takes for the shot to build its immunity. 

Related:
Obama Drama, Part 8
Obama Drama, Part 7
Obama Drama, Part 6
Obama Drama, Part 5
Obama Drama, Part 4

A customer’s card has been declined at the checkout. It is 2010.

Customer: “That’s so weird! I should have money in there!”

She checks her online banking.

Customer: “Wait, my health insurance payment came out? I thought Obama said I didn’t need to do that anymore?!”

Related:
Obama Drama, Part 7
Obama Drama, Part 6
Obama Drama, Part 5
Obama Drama, Part 4

I am working as a cashier in a tiny convenience store. A small TV is playing above me showing the news, specifically about a former US president pleading not guilty to indictment charges. One of the guys who delivers soda cans to the store is chatting with me since it’s quiet.

Delivery Guy: “Huh, I wonder if he can still run for president if he’s charged with a felony?”

Me: “Actually, he can. Actually, technically, he could still run for president even if he was in prison. There’s nothing in the Constitution to stop it if it were to happen.”

I’m currently a history major, so this topic came up recently and I am happy to discuss it.

Delivery Guy: “Huh… I wonder if they’ll ever propose a change to the Constitution if that happens?”

Suddenly, a customer who was browsing near us swings to face us, her face a scrunched-up face of anger and bitterness.

Customer: “That’s unconstitutional! We’ll never vote for any changes to the Constitution! It was perfect the day it was written!”

Me: “Ma’am, are you a woman?”

Customer: “Of course!”

Me: “Did… did no one tell you about the nineteenth amendment? The one that allowed women the right to vote?”

Customer: “Stop trying to confuse me with your propaganda!”

Me: “By ‘propaganda’ you mean ‘history’?”

The customer huffs and storms out. Another customer comes up in her wake.

Next Customer: “She knows what an amendment is, right?”

Delivery Guy: “Honestly, I don’t think she even knows what the Constitution is.”

We are driving through a few states, and we stop at a diner that seems to serve a lot of big portions and fried food; no judgments – I love hush puppies, but I don’t want anything too heavy for the long drive to put me into a carb coma.

Me: “Excuse me, do you have any light salads?”

Waitress: “Sorry, this town is pretty conservative.”

Me: “It’s sad that that makes sense…”

The English rock band, Pink Floyd, has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their famous album “The Dark Side Of The Moon”. As a result, the album is enjoying a resurgence, and we have a few posters of the album cover dotted around the store.

For those who don’t know, the album features a beam of light hitting a triangular prism, and the light refracts into a spectrum on the other side from red to indigo/violet.

An older male customer is browsing some classic rock albums and sees our displays.

Customer: “Oh, no, not them, too! I respected Pink Floyd, but not anymore!”

Me: “What do you mean, sir?”

Customer: “They’ve gone woke! They’re putting all that gay s*** on their albums!”

Me: “Sir… that’s the album cover to The Dark Side Of The Moon. It’s always been that cover.”

Customer: “So sad. Another great group lost to the liberal agenda.”

Me: “Sir, the album cover isn’t trying to be political. It’s just… well… science!”

Customer: “Well, there you go! Science is all liberal, too! Don’t argue with me, boy.”

Me: “Yes, sir. You don’t have a point I can argue against.”

The customer nodded in his “victory” and left the store, muttering about how sad it was that another “classic band went woke”.