Really?

[barista]

Yesterday at work a women in her 40's comes up to me and asks for two books on her kids, 15 and 16, summer reading list. Since we didn't have 'I know Why the Caged Bird Sings' or 'A Raisin in the Sun' I decided to pick the least likely to piss off children. I ignored the Shakespeare at the top of the list and mocked 'Flowers in the Attic'. I

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[lonewolf964]

I would have beaten her with a stick till it broke in half...then beat her with both halves of the stick.

[the_ellcrys]

...

I got nothing. Except a sincere hope that she was fucking with you.

[barista]

You didn't speak to her and thus I shall allow you to keep that hope. Someone has to anyway.

[maninblack007]

Please tell me that you don't, at present, live in the states of Alaska, Hawaii, Washington or Oregon. I've been to the other 46, and I'm NEVER RETURNING to the one in which this nimrod you dealt with lives.

[barista]

North Carolina.

[manicgirl15]

ummm...has she lived under a rock for the past 60 years?!?!?! has she never read ANYTHING!!!!! Gah.... i'm right along with you on the faith in humanity thing....

[barista]

That was why I couldn't really say anything other than gah, uh...

[zyllah]

Could have been worse...she could have expressed the desire for it to happen again.

[barista]

At least those people know what it is. Also I'd probably have been able to reply in a better fashion. Although, "Your beliefs offend me get the fuck out of my store", isn't necessarily better.