23-03-2018, 04:13 PM
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Onion Rolls, Cokes, and Moral Dilemma
The sun is shining, it's a beautiful day and I was off to the grocery store (market) after a quick trip to the dentist...In the checkout line, a man - professional-looking, well-dressed, about sixty - berated a sales clerk who innocently asked him if he had found everything he wanted.
He lost his temper, saying he had been trying to purchase a certain kind of onion rolls that are carried in stores up north to no avail, for four months, despite asking the bakery to do so.
He was so loud that an assistant manager intervened, offered to help, steered him off to make a special order etc. but there was no pleasing the guy. By now the young clerk was visibly shaken.
As I unloaded my groceries into my car and while exchanging a few friendly words with a nice young family here on vacation, Mr. Sunshine wheeled his cart (trolley) to his car, slung his groceries inside and slammed the cart into the bay where the empty carts are collected.
However, in his hurried anger, I noticed that he had left a six pack of Coca Cola and bottled water on the bottom of the cart.
Now, what do you think I did or should have done next?
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23-03-2018, 04:33 PM
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Re: Onion Rolls, Cokes, and Moral Dilemma
Originally Posted by Surfermom
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The sun is shining, it's a beautiful day and I was off to the grocery store (market) after a quick trip to the dentist...In the checkout line, a man - professional-looking, well-dressed, about sixty - berated a sales clerk who innocently asked him if he had found everything he wanted.
He lost his temper, saying he had been trying to purchase a certain kind of onion rolls that are carried in stores up north to no avail, for four months, despite asking the bakery to do so.
He was so loud that an assistant manager intervened, offered to help, steered him off to make a special order etc. but there was no pleasing the guy. By now the young clerk was visibly shaken.
As I unloaded my groceries into my car and while exchanging a few friendly words with a nice young family here on vacation, Mr. Sunshine wheeled his cart (trolley) to his car, slung his groceries inside and slammed the cart into the bay where the empty carts are collected.
However, in his hurried anger, I noticed that he had left a six pack of Coca Cola and bottled water on the bottom of the cart.
Now, what do you think I did or should have done next?
23-03-2018, 04:43 PM
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Re: Onion Rolls, Cokes, and Moral Dilemma
Originally Posted by Surfermom
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Now, what do you think I did or should have done next?
Then my humanitarian luv-all-humans innate nature would have kicked in and I'd have to shout over and tell him his 'onion rolls' were all lonely in his trolley and not to forget them, for onion rolls need luvin too.
I'll let the honest law abiding answer that one. I'll go into a frothy meltdown of conscience versus greed.
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