Monday, July 5, 2010

Be careful what you say, lady.

I work as a security officer at one of New England's three (is it three?) amusement parks. The other day, I was working at the entrance to the park, and a woman tried to bring in a can of mace and a switchblade knife -- neither of which are allowed in the park for obvious reasons. I start explaining to her that the two objects can't come into the park, but that she can return them to her vehicle and re-enter the park no problem. She starts yelling and swearing at me, saying that she should be able to just leave both of them someplace and pick them up later. I begin explaining to her that such a thing would mean allowing not one but two weapons into the park which, again, is not allowed. The woman gets in my face and says, "What are you, blonde? I HEARD you!" Well, CLEARLY you didn't, because a) you're still trying to argue your way into bringing two weapons onto the premises and b) you're screaming at the last person you want to be screaming at -- swearing is ALSO not allowed in the park, so I could have gotten your ass kicked out for the day right then and there. Instead of arguing back, I called over a supervisor to deal with it, because I was dangerously close (especially after the blonde comment) to telling this woman off and subsequently losing my job.

P.S. Lady -- YOU are blonde. Way to put yourself down. And I don't give a shit how far away you're parked, no officer is going to make an exception for you, especially after you bitched the way you did.

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