Now that school season is once again upon us, everyone has been kind of frazzled to get things in order. But I can honestly say that I've seen some things over the week that I wasn't all that impressed with. We all know that books are incredibly expensive, that's a fact that won't change anytime soon; however, the pressure of back to school season is no excuse to act like a terrible person.
A few days ago, I was out shopping with my best friend for some stuff for school. Pencils, erasers, stuff like that. We hadn't wanted to go to the bookstore because of the prices, so we went to a local shopping center, minding our own business. We kept mostly to ourselves, only talking to another student that we ran into before we went to check out. Now, it was kind of late, maybe around 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. and there weren't a lot of checkout counters open. As we got in line, so did this old man and his grandson. The boy was polite, but the man was not. He kept demanding that the younger give him money and was giving him crap for wanting to see Zootopia. Now see, I loved this movie, and give it high praise for whoever hasn't seen it. So I happily talked to the two in line behind us, my friend agreeing with me.
All was well until it was our turn. Not only was this old man behind us pressuring the cashier to go faster, but blatantly encouraged us to not talk to her. As people who work thankless minimum wage jobs, a simple conversation about mundane things really goes a long way, so we ignored him. But he continued this until I paid saying, that at least now he could hurry up and get out of there. I and my friend were baffled that this man would be so rude. After all, we had only talked to her, before thanking her for her time.
If we had been older, I highly doubt he would have been so rude to us. It makes me wonder what other millennials would have done in our situation. If they would have told him off because of how rude he was being in public. We aren't all perfect, but at least I know how to act in public.
