The Land Of The Free From Thought
(I am the manager at a discount department store, and one of our regular customers is a little bit flaky. She often talks to herself, repeating herself over and over.)
Customer: “Where are you from? What country do you come from?”
Me: “I was born in Colorado.”
Customer: “You need to go back to your country at once. America is for Americans.”
Me: “Colorado is in America.
Customer: “You must go back! You must go back! You must go back!”
(She continues this ad nauseam until she finally leaves. A few weeks later, she returns and purchases some items. Her total is $7.60 or so, and one of the coins she hands me is a Canadian quarter. I calmly inspect said quarter, and hand it back.)
Me: “I can’t accept this coin. Here in America, we only accept American currency. If you want to spend the Canadian currency, perhaps you should, you know, go back to Canada to do so.”
(I haven’t had a problem with her since.)
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