old bag at KSAT today mistreats me

[satpak77]

Oh boy.....

(and just found out my BP was "high normal" 140/90 last week...)

So I go into "Alamo Extra News" bookstore/newstand, Terminal 1, outside the TSA area, across from the NWA ticket counter, and pick up Newsweek to kill the time. I ain't bothering nobody.

http://www.sanantonio.gov/aviation/airportmaps_terminal1.asp

The old bag behind the cash register, first name Doris or something, approximately 65 years old, with raspy smokers cough and nicotine/meth addict skin, starts to hard-eye me as I flip the pages.

I stop reading (I am in the store 7 minutes at this point) and give her my pleasant West Texas greeting and ask her "yall staying busy today" to try to strike up chit-chat

She looks at me and gruffles something I can't understand, and then taps on the register and rings up some gum for some dude.

Then, she looks up and says "whenever you are ready sir" to me. I tell her "ready for what?"

she then tells me "you gonna buy something?" in an elevated tone and I tell her "not now" and walk out, avoiding confrontation and a call to Airport Police, due to a possible verbal barage between a almost-40 year old professional pilot with college degree and this old bag who probably killed her last 5 husbands.

What gives these "seniors" the right to treat people like crap?

NOTE: I request all fellow pilots to step up and visit this place and peruse all the magazines to their hearts content

 

[CA1900]

I'm sure she was a bitch at 30, too; don't sweat it. Some people are just happy being miserable!

 

[avbug]

she then tells me "you gonna buy something?" in an elevated tone and I tell her "not now" and walk out, avoiding confrontation and a call to Airport Police, due to a possible verbal barage between a almost-40 year old professional pilot with college degree and this old bag who probably killed her last 5 husbands.

What gives these "seniors" the right to treat people like crap?

That's quite possibly one of the single dumbest, most arrogant statements I've read on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter, in quite some time.

The lady selling the magazines asked you if you intended to buy something, called you "sir," and you felt a confrontation with the airport police coming on, did you?

You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder five counties wide, and here you felt your experience was so mindbending that your "mistreatment" merited posting about it. Amazing.

You just dislike 65 year olds, or have a beef with smokers, or can't handle being called "sir?" What exactly is your problem, then?

Cheese with that whine?

 

[DrProc]

Libraries have publications you can read for free. Book stores and news stands sell publications. I hope this clears things up for you.

 

[erj-145mech]

How do you know if she doesn't have a degree or a doctorate? Education level doesn't mean a thing.

 

[regionalcap]

Spend the 4 bucks and buy the magazine already.

 

[svcta]

That's got nothing to do with seniors, but the way that people treat each other in general. I'm not sure, but I think it is getting worse as we all get casual with each other. No one has respect for anyone any more. Its easier than ever to get educated and rise above your station but people continue to keep themselves down and scowl at each other the whole while. It was said above and it it absolutely true: some people (most, actually) are happier being unhappy. This gives them control over it and allows them stuff to complain about so they can feel better about themselves. And the use of the word "sir" is more often associated with a jab these days than a bit of pleasant formality. It's far more popular for us all to be buddies than respectful of each other. Just like teachers going by their first names in some schools. I side with Bernie Mac. I'm going to stop myself now, though, or I'll go on for even longer.

Also, book stores only keep magazines to attract the gum buyers. They don't buy them until they are sold and those that are not bought go back to the publisher at no cost to the retailer. And I doubt that the cashier in question was the store owner anyway, and I also doubt that this guy was the only one milling around flipping through a magazine.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Talk about being thin-skinned. Don't stray far from the hotel when you stop into New York City. That lady was quite polite and hospitable by NYC standards. Mr. College Degree guy! :laugh:

Leave the old lady alone and move on. Perhaps she wasn't having the greatest day. American life just got a lot tougher for many and it's certainly no better sitting behind a magazine shop counter in an airport terminal.

 

[Midnight Flyer]

Libraries have publications you can read for free. Book stores and news stands sell publications. I hope this clears things up for you.

Hey ignoramus, when was the last time you saw a public library outside of Terminal 1. Sometimes that's not an option when you're standing by, waiting for a flight.

satpak77 she sounds like a temperamental crusty old baguke: Maybe next time purchase a piece of gum or something so you'll be a "customer", then you can browse all you want.

 

[Junkflyer]

I'll bet she's writing on the old bag forum " So this young snooty cheap ass pilot came into my store today...."

 

[satpak77]

nah her behavior was out of line. I was only in there for like 5-10 minutes, she engaged me at the 3 minute mark

oh well, I need to just let it go

 

[SMOE]

nah her behavior was out of line. I was only in there for like 5-10 minutes, she engaged me at the 3 minute mark

oh well, I need to just let it go

Did you hack your over-sized wrist watch when you walked in or what?

 

[A Squared]

Hey ignoramus, when was the last time you saw a public library outside of Terminal 1. Sometimes that's not an option when you're standing by, waiting for a flight.

Right, and I suspect that DrProc expected you to be able to fill in "the rest of the story" (so to speak) by yourself. Since you apparenty fall a little short of Paul Harvey, I'll fill it in for you: The absence of a public library doesn't entitle you to treat a book *store* as a free lending library, so that you can use thier merchandise and than put it back, slightly wrinkled on the shelf, for free

Also, book stores only keep magazines to attract the gum buyers. They don't buy them until they are sold and those that are not bought go back to the publisher at no cost to the retailer.

While you may be correct that the distributor does not charge the retailer for unsold magazines, the idea that there is "no cost to the retailer" there is a cost to providing the space for selling the item. You priced retail space in an airport terminal recently? It's a store, where things are for sale, for money. It's not a free public lending library. The idea that the magazines are not really for sale, just a lure for customers is utterly absurd and without a shred of basis in reality

It's astonishing the rationalizations one sees for justifying using a store's mercnhandise and putting it back without paying.

You want to read a magazine in a store, buy it. period.

If you don't, don't read it.

If you read it without buying it, expect the staff to occasionally get snippy with you.

 

[Spinn555]

While you may be correct that the distributor does not charge the retailer for unsold magazines, the idea that there is "no cost to the retailer" there is a cost to providing the space for selling the item. You priced retail space in an airport terminal recently? It's a store, where things are for sale, for money. It's not a free public lending library. The idea that the magazines are not really for sale, just a lure for customers is utterly absurd and without a shred of basis in reality

It's astonishing the rationalizations one sees for justifying using a store's merchandise and putting it back without paying.

You want to read a magazine in a store, buy it. period.

If you don't, don't read it.

If you read it without buying it, expect the staff to occasionally get snippy with you.

Agreed.

Two thumbs up

 

[ualdriver]

The old bag behind the cash register, first name Doris or something, approximately 65 years old, with raspy smokers cough and nicotine/meth addict skin, starts to hard-eye me as I flip the pages.......

........and give her my pleasant West Texas greeting and ask her "yall staying busy today" to try to strike up chit-chat

After reading those lines, I thought for sure your story was going to end differently. You didn't tap that?