Walmart customer attacks 100 year old greeter for checking her cart.

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  1. HEAVY DUDE

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    Your shopping EXPERIENCE was ruined at WALMART? #### THEM!
     
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    These evil elderly WalMart greeters must be stopped! How dare they take 5 seconds out of my life! I will stand-up to the man by starting here at WalMart. If only they made a bumper sticker that I could convey my views with!

    I think it would be interesting to go through one of those TSA searches though
     
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    No, I wouldn't go that extreme...but if I spend $80 of my hard earned money...as I'm leaving, thank me, rather than reduce my character person to nothing more than a suspect theif, in plain view of others....

    $80 dollars is $80 dollars...and dignity is dignity...expecially if you've done nothing to derserve the search...

    And it only takes 1 second to spit on someone...it's not the length of time that determines the effect it has on ones dignity....rather it's the act itself...
     
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    I will never ever again, allow any Wal-mart door employee to trample upon my dignity...

    I have never stolen anything from a store in the past, and will never steal anything in the future...

    As such, your the wildcard, not me....
     
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    My dignity isn't so fragile that holding up my receipt as I walk out of a store can wound it.
     
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    Even if I go to Costco...they will not check my basket, reciept or anything else on my person, after or before I've made my purchase...

    And if they don't like it, they can try it, and see what happens...

    I need a good retirement fund...
     
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    And how is it an assault to one's dignity to let them make sure you didn't forget something in your basket??

    I remember one time honestly forgetting the bottles of water I had under the basket. Easy enough to do considering I had $300 worth of other crap in there.

    I'd much rather they catch the mistake before I walked out than have security screaming "THEFT"!!

    That would be embarrassing.
     
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    A victim mentality will always exists with many. The stronger person is one that rises above it. And just for clarification, cops deal with probable cause, and the court system has the beyond reasonable doubt part.
     
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    Some people really are victims, or have been, and don't have to have the mentality...

    That's like saying someone who's been beat up and cut by a knife,( not once, but many times) has a victim mentality....

    Soon, that person will simply learn to protect themselves...regardless of how others interpit it...

    Just like I don't question the paranoid about owning guns, who always swear up and down their being 'victimized' by the government and black helicopters...

    Everyone has their issue...
     
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    Perhaps, or that person will develop a victim mentality and see everything as an attack upon them self or their dignity.

    You're not the only person in this world that's been treated with cruelty. Nor are you the only person who's been physically brutalized. I myself was brutally raped and tortured (to be blunt) as well as a number of other horrible incidents in life. However I choose to refuse, yes REFUSE to live as a victim, to see every tiny incident in life as an affront or insult. I refuse to let the brutalities of others dictate my life.

    Someone asking to look at my receipt as I leave a store isn't an attack on my dignity, actually it's my opportunity to brighten their day. I hand over the receipt point to my basket and say "look close because I'm smuggling out a big screen tv". At that point they laugh. Their day is made better because of my choice to spread some humor.

    It's a terrible shame that you've had things happen to you but it's your choice how you respond. You choose to view that receipt checker as a someone trying to victimize you. You choose to see it as an attack upon your dignity. Life is about choices and I'll stick to choosing to see that receipt being checked as no big thing other than an opportunity for me to make someone else's life better.

    I hope eventually you'll choose to let go of the ideology that you're a victim. I personally think you have an enormous amount of good to share with the world.