mean people suck

people suck.
and this is why:

you can't ever make everyone happy doing the same thing.

but first, a little background:

fred meyer has a store card called the "rewards" card that they just implemented on the first of the year.
the jury is out to whether its a good thing or not.
personally i hate it, others are excited to earn "points".
the whole idea is that you get 1% back of what you spend over 3 months in the form of a rebate check in the mail.
basically, the card is just a way to tell what people consume.
cuz shit. 1% of $500 is $5. whoopty-fuckin-doo. sign me up!

anyway.
i go in spurts where i either ask every customer if they have the card. and other times i don't bother asking.
a lot of the times i just profile.

but today.
i didn't ask an older man. and after the transaction, he goes to hand me the card.
you'd think that any reasonable person would realize that you'd have to get the card in before you're done paying, but actually, a lot of people don't.

so i tell him that i need that before he pays.
(here it comes, hissy fit)
so he goes,
"you know what? you can take this card and shove it."
then he throws the card and his receipt at me saying that the cashiers never bother to ask him about the card. (which very well may be true, but what can i do about it? i guess ask, but i forgot in his case. i was pretty good the rest of the day, before and after).

so that guy leaves, and time passes.
i get just about everyone's card. i did miss this one woman's cuz i was too busy talking to her. whoops.

then comes this other man:

i ring him up. i put the red tote at the back of the checkstand.
i ask, "do you have a fred meyer card?"

no response.
i ask again.
still no response.

i ask about five times, before the guy looks at his watch and says,
"oh. would you look at the time?"

ok. so he's ignoring my question.
buttfucker.

so i tell him, "you know, if you'd just tell me 'no,' i'd leave you alone."
cuz he's probably had one of those peppy cashiers try to "sell" him on the idea of having the card. i just ask him so i don't get cards thrown at me later.

he doesn't say anything.
still being an asshole.

so when people act like this, i presume that it gives me a bit of a right to be an asshole back, within reason.

so the guy's doing debit. and on the debit machine it asks many times if that's the correct total.

so, the ball's in his court, the guy has to press more buttons to get out of the store. i sit there and wait.

after a while, i say, "i don't know about you, but i could stand here all day."
(feels nice to not be informed, huh asshole?)

eventually he figures out what i mean and presses the necessary buttons and leaves.

i did not thank him. he almost thanked me, but decided not to when i extended the cold shoulder.

i don't know what it is. but that guy bugged me way fucking more than that asshole that threw the card at me. that i can handle, cuz the guy was just a dumbass, but i guess this guy was purposely being a prick.

but what's weird (and maybe this is why), is that i was in the wrong on the first guy, so there was nothing i could do about it, and the second guy, that was all him.

i don't know.

but that goes to show you,
you're damn if you do, and you're damned if you don't
...ask about the fred meyer card.

so i guess to satiate the fred meyer customers, i need to know who wants me to ask and who doesn't. which basically goes back to what i've been trying to do all along and we've seen how successful that was.

there's always going to be some prick that doesn't get along with you even though you've done nothing wrong.
if i had handled each of those given situations in the opposite manner, each would have been happy. but how the fuck am i to know that?

that's why i say, "fuck 'em."