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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/maybebatshit on 2023-08-27 12:36:39.
There were probably 30 people waiting for food because Saturday Costco is bananas but my son really wanted to try the new strawberry ice cream they have here. I figured no big anyways since my husband offered to deal with the check out line. We ordered and walked off to the side next to some white boomer dude and his wife.
It’s Texas so of course we start up a conversation in line. I mentioned how rough it must be to work there since it looked like all of five people were getting the food out. This somehow visibly pissed him off and he started in on how a job is a job. I probably should have left it, but I decided to just casually say some jobs are a lot tougher than others. His next words exactly were “just like a fucking Democrat” and I said something like really dude? It was over at that point.
He went fucking nuts. He started screaming at me to go back to California? I picked up my son and said I was a Texan, born and bred, but that I thought it was time to leave it at agree to disagree because he was becoming aggressive. I walked to the other side of the counter with my son and he is yelling the entire time. I’m standing there in a group of strangers and the guy is just going off on me while my son is clutching me and clearly terrified.
Then I did it friends, I turned to look at him and I said you look as stupid as you sound or something to that effect and this one statement back was enough to make him push his cart over to his wife and stomp past me, literally knocking into my shoulder, just to let me know he could hurt me if he wanted.
I’m on the verge of tears and I go find my husband and tell him what happened. My husband tells me the point him out and he walks over ready to murder the guy. Wouldn’t you know it, all of a sudden now that a man is involved the guy has a visible tail between his legs look. He just starts saying “No disrespect” over and over like as though that fucking means anything. He wouldn’t even look at me. I asked why he was apologizing to my husband for screaming at me and he still just kept talking to my husband. It made me feel so fucking small and weak.
I don’t know what I even want from this post except to cry about the fact that I can’t even feel safe getting ice cream at fucking Costco anymore. I feel like I can’t go anywhere without my husband. This is the worst one, but it’s not the first time a guy has made me feel unsafe with my kids in tow. The last few years have been horrendous. There’s nothing more jarring than the moment when you don’t know how to protect your child from a stranger. I’m just scared and angry. Why the fuck are people like this?
Edit: I think it’s important to note that I couldn’t even find a manager because they were so busy. And this is Texas, I wanted out of there before the guy had time to get to his I’m sure oversized truck and grab a gun. I just wanted to go home, and I think a lot of y’all would have felt the same way in the situation. I also do carry pepper spray but I definitely couldn’t have used it here. So I’m kindly asking to please stop giving me advice, I just want to vent. Thank you all though for your concerns, it is appreciated.