*s* Thanks. I've been known to have my rude moments - but I save them for people who deserve them. See, I work at the service desk which means I get all the complaints and questions and annoying people. And in Eugene, OR there is a higher concentration of them for some damned reason.
I save my rudeness and unwillingness to help for people who order me around like a dog, assume I will just ring them up at my desk (i am for returns and orders and sometimes i don't have time to just cashier especially when 6 feet from me on either side there are cashiers doing nothing with a lot more counter space to ring them!).
I also try to use my powers for good though because if I'm out shopping I will make an effort to stick up for workers who have rude customers. One day I got into scraps with some B***h at walmart who was mad because the lady was helping us instead of her, and was all being rude and huffy to the lady who was just looking at us like "help me?" so I turned to the lady and i said "You know what? I wouldn't help you either, because you're rude." and the lady huffed off and I was a happy Lizzie once more.
Since I work in retail it really really upsets me when I go somewhere and get bad service. It never used to, but I try really hard to give good service and do just about whatever the customer wants - and then if I go somewhere and I don't even get an associate who can hide their contempt it really riles me up.
(okay, dissertation done for now) I think i could write a book about retail.