Oprah and Time
The Oprah incident is ridiculous. She feels discriminated against because a store wouldn't let her in 15 minutes after they closed?! I don't care what color someone is, if we're closed, we're closed! I want to go home; my employees have floors to mop and returns to return; I have cash to count; furthermore, if the store has no customers in it, it's a BIG security risk to let in just one customer--then there are no witnesses if that one customer decides to rob and kill all of the employees. Again, race is not an issue. Most stores are open a long time. Come when they're open!
The next posts will be about inconsiderate customers I've encountered and their cluelessness about how to tell time.
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