Went to the Goodwill on lower Greenville in Dallas today

[Horse with no Name]

This is a very liberal hood as an FYI.
I was at the back of the store. This lady in line starts getting loud and obnoxious. She kept repeating to the cashier “do you disagree that President Trump is creating jobs??” Just over and over.
It was so rude and disrespectful.
These people are so fucking crazy.
It was heartwarming to hear all the people in line laughing at her though...I expect that is why she got louder and louder.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. What ever happened to the idea that certain things are not to be discussed in public.

Sex, religion, and politics.

Even when I think the other person is pretty much on the same page that I'm on, I'm extremely hesitant to bring up anything political.

I have been known to say, "I sincerely hope you are a sensible person who thinks like I do, not one of those others", putting a shudder in my voice on that last word. But the times I've said something like that, it's been in the context that a political discussion has been hinted at, and I simply don't want to go there.

[underpants]

2. The rightwing took a cue from the churches

and forced into everything and erverywhere.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. That's probably at least part of the problem.

I learned to be very circumspect in my statements of even a vaguely political nature while living for 18 years in Kansas. And that was before it became as awful as it more recently became. As a consequence, even though I live in a very blue part (Santa Fe) of a reasonably blue state (New Mexico), I still tend to shy away from overt statements of my beliefs in public.

[Blue_true]

7. Same here. I live in a red county that is trending purple.

I don't have stickers on my vehicles and don't talk politics or religion in public. Just easier to avoid nuts that way.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Exactly.

Even in a more civil time, there is no point in letting everyone know where you stand on such things.

I likewise don't have political stickers on my car. I think I have one that says something about saving the world through s-f (science fiction), but nothing remotely political.

I have a good friend who is a conservative Christian. We were able to become friends because in the early part of getting acquainted we simply did not go there in terms of religion or politics. Our point of connection (and this was nearly 30 years ago) was that our sons attended the same Montessori school. So what we had in common was being moms. Very early on we could both tell that we were on a different spectrum of political/religious beliefs, but we both liked the other well enough to work not to make that an issue.

Here's a small example. She (and her husband) hosted a parent thing for the parents of the class our sons were in at the secular private school we'd chosen to send our sons to after the Montessori school. She called me up a few days before, wondering if it would be a problem that they didn't serve alcohol. Neither she nor her husband drinks. I told her no. While I myself am an enthusiastic imbiber of alcohol, I can't begin to imagine thinking that someone who doesn't should serve it. Oh, and she'd made it clear on the invitation that kids in the class and their siblings were welcome. It was a great parent thing.

My point is, that as judgemental and intolerant as I'm capable of being, it is not that hard to connect to those unlike us. You just have to make an effort.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. +1000 nt

[Horse with no Name]

4. The cashier said he felt very threatened by her behavior

It was just so bizarrre. I heard her through the entire store.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Of course he felt threatened.

Especially because in those jobs you're usually told you may not confront the customers, just serve them.

[Lucid Dreamer]

13. I extend my no-no list to:

Sex Politics Religion, Money, and Surgery.

Good hint from forgotten source:
Never discuss money with people that have less than you do or that have more than you do.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Instead of surgery, in my family it's one's health.

Religion, money, politics, sex and health status, all taboo. As an INFJ I hate not being able to talk openly and honestly about feelings and such. But it just goes on and I feel like a prisoner to the superficial silence.

[gratuitous]

6. Be ready to respond to this

These people are not going to get calmer or more rational as their perceived power slips away from them.

In this situation, my response would be, "What difference could it possibly make what I think? I'm just a cashier at Goodwill. Here's your change."

[ret5hd]

8. "If things so good why the hell your broke ass in the Goodwill with the rest of us, huh???"

That's kinda close to something I would have said to her.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. It think this behavior is common for non-ideologue Republicans. Tax rates down, jobs up

Stock market up. Boom, sounds good to me. Done.

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. tRumpy has said even Ivanka has created millions of jobs.

Where oh where would we be without this royal family?

Oh yeah, a MUCH better place than we are now that's for sure.

[struggle4progress]

12. Man, has that neighborhood changed!

Fifty years ago, there was a great hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant on Greenville called Pete's. Later, they went upscale, moved down the street, and changed there name to Pietro's. They're gone now

Forty years ago, I had a good friend who lived on the other side of Skillman not far from there. Back then, there was still a Sears where the Fiesta and Dollar Tree are now. All that remains is a nearby street named Sears -- but it's not quite where the Sears was when I lived there

When I was in town a few summers back, I grabbed some veggies at Sprouts and some chopped fresh cactus at the Fiesta, then went over to the Aldi on Gaston

[MineralMan]

16. The answer for a customer who is browbeating a cashier:

Someone else in line says to the other customer: "Hey! Shut up and move on! People are waiting here, and the cashier can't tell you to shut up. I can, though, so shut up and move on!"

[Pluvious]

17. One evening dining in Avalon, Catalina Island, early 80's ...

I spoke up to defend a verbally harassed waitress at a nearby table.

It escalated quickly, and I wound up demanded the sheriff be called. I'd derisively told the jerk table to "go back to Newport (Beach) where they belong," which really triggered them - as I'd hoped (young troll was I).

Needless to say, the lone officer arrives and quickly diffused the situation (boring I know).

When the inebriated asswipes all left shortly after, one of the women turned to us from the door, and shouted: "For your information, WE'RE FROM SAN FRANCISCO!!"

We all laughed quite heartily at their retreating backs.

The waitress came over and thanked us for trying to help, and we got a free dessert lol.

It was then I learned from my buddy (who was living there at the time), that the sheriff was none other than the man whom famously had crawled under Charles Manson house to make his arrest.

Apparently he'd been given the choice of working in any California precinct of his choice.

And he'd picked the sleepy little tourist town of Avalon.