r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hydratedstoner • 6h ago
Infuriatig Got harassed by grocery store security for eating chicken in my car
This is probably gonna sound dumb but it still annoyed the crap out of me. So I’m at the grocery store doing some quick shopping. I’m super hangry because it’s nearly 3 PM, I haven’t eaten all day, and I just left the gym. Poor life choices on my part, but I digress. I end up grabbing a rotisserie chicken some greens, and fruit before heading out. As soon as I get to my car, I clean my hands start going to town lol. No shame in my game I was literally starving. Mind you, I also parked hella far from the building because I knew I’d need a few minutes to eat before driving home.
Well two minutes into my late lunch, I get a harsh knock on my window from store security telling me to move along. Ummm, excuse me? I’m sorry, but what the actual fuck? Maybe I’m being overly dramatic here but it irrationally pissed me off. Partially because I’m knuckles deep in a rotisserie chicken, but also because they knocked on my window way too hard, I just spent over 100$ in your damn store and it’s not like I was even taking up a prime spot since I parked in the back. It sounds ridiculous but I genuinely think I’m changing grocery stores because wtf?
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u/Manyarethestrange 3h ago edited 1h ago
A security guard walked into the hotel kitchen one time while I was working. Walked up to me all weird and asked if I work there. No bro, I'm just wearing these kitchen clothes for the hell of it. Strange behaviour.
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u/beepbooponyournose 2h ago
A cop walked into my dispensary one time when the alarm was going off. I was behind the counter in my company shirt and badge around my neck. He still kept his hand on his gun the whole time 🥴
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u/Immediate-Bid-8129 6h ago
thats so wierd like youre just in your own car AND you just spent your money on them wthh...hope youre enjoying your chicken
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u/hydratedstoner 5h ago
exactly and I’m the kind of person that votes with my wallet so it’s like if that’s how I’m treated as a customer I’ll gladly go somewhere else.
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u/jrschlumpf 5h ago
And I would walk into the store and demand to talk to the manager. They either resolve it to my liking or they won't see me again.
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u/Hot-Win2571 Mildly Flair 3h ago
Walk into the store, demand manager.
Shake hands with manager.
Do not wash your hands before that. You're in a hurry because security is in a hurry.38
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u/Complete_Entry 3h ago
Once again, it's not the store messing your meal up, its lot security, generally through the realty company.
One time I had to call them to say "Hey, your building is on fire".
The whole fire department showed up, all of them, it was an avengers level fire.
Security guards honestly scare me sometimes. They're armed and they just have to pass a two hour course.
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u/ScheduleCorrect3412 6h ago
I hope you still enjoyed being knuckle deep in your chicken....
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u/hydratedstoner 6h ago
Oh absolutely lol 😂 had to finish before posting this or it would’ve been a lot more graphic
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u/dfjkldfjkl 5h ago
“Your name, and your managers, and your employer. I am finishing this chicken, and then after that, I am going back into the store to have a discussion with them about your shitty attitude toward their paying customers. Now kindly step the fuck away from my vehicle or I will be calling the police as you are harassing me.”
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u/Specific-Ocelot3711 3h ago
I was driving Uber late one night when I got a video call from my family that my Mom who lived in another state was in the hospital about to die from pneumonia that had suddenly gone septic. Last I heard she was just home battling a bad cold. I didn't have a fare at the time so I pulled over into the nearest parking lot -a closed grocery store. A few minutes later the night security guard knocked on my window and motioned for me to roll it down. I just shook my head "no" and backed my car out of the parking spot to drive around the corner to a less patrolled lot where I wouldn't be hassled while basically saying goodbye to my unconscious Mom and crying on a video call with my family 💔
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u/girlwhoweighted 2h ago
I'm so sorry.
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u/Specific-Ocelot3711 2h ago
It's been a few years, so the pain has mostly scarred over I guess. But op's story pulling up this memory for me so vividly might be an indication of some grief I still haven't dealt with. 😮💨
Hug/call your Moms if you can y'all!
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u/ambid3xtrous 6h ago
Don't change store. Those idiots are subcontractors. Call the store and tell the manager what these idiots did. They'll want to know and I suspect they'll apologize to you. That's just weird behavior.
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u/DagtheBulf 6h ago
Some people just don't understand the primal satisfaction you get from raw dogging a grocery store rotisserie chicken with your bare hands. Those people are WEAK
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u/fenuxjde 4h ago
Satisfaction? It's just straight up economical. No other way to get that many grams of highly biovailable protein in ready to eat form for $4.99!
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u/dangerousfeather 4h ago
Where are you that the magical dinner is still $4.99?? They’re up to $7.99 here!
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u/Colonel_Sandman 6h ago
If the security was 3rd party.. a company hired by the shopping center, I’d ask what company they work for and if they wanna get fired. Tell them to write it in their log book and F off.
If they were a store employee I’d show a receipt and tell them to go away or bring the store manager.
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u/Complete_Entry 6h ago
Security is rarely store hired, it's usually the lot.
Source: Worked a lot of fucking stores.
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u/Affectionate_Cost_88 3h ago
Still might be good for the store to know that person is chasing off their paying customers.
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM 6h ago
Wow fuck this, what type of power trip would you have to be on to do this to someone
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u/hydratedstoner 6h ago
Exactly. Dude made me hella uncomfortable for no reason
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u/Autumn_Ridge 5h ago
His boss probably told him to chase away people who are loitering, and he's not smart enough to understand that doesn't mean customers.
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u/upsidedown-funnel 2h ago
It you look close enough you’ll see chicken bones all over the Costco parking lot. 😂 I’d complain to the grocery chain.
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u/potatohats 4h ago
Nobody's ever accused rent-a-cops of being intelligent or well-balanced types.
The stereotype that they're all power-tripping imbeciles exists for a reason.
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u/Sea_Substance9163 4h ago
Just show them the receipt or point to the bags of groceries and tell them you're a customer. Say you're lightheaded because your a diabetic and need to eat something right now or you'll pass out.
Then ask them, "do you want me to pass out? Crash my car because I'm lightheaded? What? Do I need to ask the manager if I eat a bit before I go?" They'll practically run from your car.
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u/HotDog_Haven 6h ago
That is so bizarre. I never see a security person in the parking lot at a grocery store.
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u/Starbreiz 5h ago
The first amendment people were going really hard in my part of CA recently and punched a customer recently and Whole Foods did step up security. I wonder if that's where it happened
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u/hydratedstoner 5h ago
Idk where you’re from but it’s pretty common here in SoCal at least. Not just grocery stores either, but shopping centers/outdoor malls, certain fast food places in LA and even gyms will have dedicated parking lot security just driving around
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u/HotDog_Haven 5h ago
NJ. Our malls & such have security in the lots, but never saw any at our grocery store.
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u/Dblbogiemadge-1 5h ago
Its true, we get people pushing out cart fulls of groceries without paying!! Some grocery stores have security but a lot are putting in barriers go people cant get their carts out until they pass through a check out lane. It started getting bad like that when they made stealing anything under $900 as a nothing thing!! Looters looting during store hours. It’s ridiculous. We are sick of it here in CA and need to crack down on these clowns
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u/dangerousfeather 4h ago
Here (Pennsylvania) a local grocery chain installed locking wheels on the shopping carts. If you didn’t take the cart through the checkout, it triggers a sensor at the door that locks a wheel on your cart.
It is absolutely infuriating to go through the self-checkout, apparently not hit a sensor, and find yourself pushing an un-rollable cart full of groceries when you hit the doors.
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u/Complete_Entry 2h ago
At the supermarket I worked at we had a guy who was wired a little like Gus Fring. He'd block the cart before they cleared the metal detector, they'd say he couldn't detain them, and he would agree.
"I am not holding you here Ma'am, I'm simply holding onto your cart while you go get your wallet".
They'd usually swear at him and leave.
Corporate eventually told him to stop doing that, but I thought it was badass.
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u/Complete_Entry 6h ago edited 6h ago
Why didn't you tell him no and roll your window up?
I worked supermarket deli, and people absolutely stuff the food in their face the second the receipt prints. I never took it poorly. Better than the thieves who shove the leftovers into the store shelves.
We literally decommissioned the chicken station because that happened too much, kept them behind the counter, and customers had to pay before we handed them over. People were MAD.
Also, people only want the tub. Management likes the bags because they're heat shrunk shut, less "Grazing" which is the polite word for "stealing".
One thing I will say is scope the door, usually full-service deli stores will have one or two tables out the door, specifically so you can sit and eat, you shouldn't have to eat in the car.
In my state, CA, you already paid a tax on it being hot and ready to eat, so like fuck is some fake tin star wearing motherfucker justified in that window knock.
Enjoy your chicken, friend. It's an absolute nightmare to make. I still can't eat it, and it's been... shit, almost 20 years.
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u/New-Trifle-7097 4h ago
Based on the amount of people I know and see who dive into a rotisserie chicken bare handed in their car straight out of the store, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I think that’s the proper way to eat them.
Thank you for your rotisserie service. Steering wheels all over are greasy and our road rage is tamed with a full belly. God’s work.
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u/Little_Red_Riding_ 4h ago
I used to work at a tavern up north that sold rotisserie chickens on Sunday. It took me years to get over that smell of chicken + rosemary + garlic salt while sweating to death in a tiny 110 degree kitchen. We made so much of it that it just ruined it for me. We had so much leftover, we had to find other ways to sell it. The owner was just so stupid. He had more money than common sense.
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u/hydratedstoner 6h ago
Mostly because I was uncomfortable and just wanted him to leave me alone. (Also I’m in CA too! ❤️🌴)
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u/Langered-n-Olagonin 4h ago
Was he store security or "mall" security. Just curious, different employers.
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u/standardtissue 5h ago
I would have yelled at him to fuck off through the window without missing a beat on the chicken. Like for real, what's he gonna do call the cops ? No shame in getting that protein on demand either lol. I once bought a shrimp cocktail at Costco, and then downed at one of their snack bar tables. Sometimes you gotta eat and tbh if there's a costco nearby their rotisserie chicken is like the best food deal around.
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u/Emsizz 3h ago
I hope you cracked your window, said "fuck right off. and don't touch my car," and rolled the window back up and continued eating.
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u/rocklee482 3h ago
Exactly what I would have done, Been more like "who?" (Begins to answer) "Fucking asked" "I ain't go no candy for you, NOOO candy" (tpb reference lol) then rolled up the window and turned up the music higher
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u/Numerous-Ad6460 3h ago
"Fuck off or call the cops. I got too much chicken and not enough time for your bullshit."
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u/berlenba 6h ago
I’d have told them to fuck off and kick rocks. Tow me. Then, if I’m still there when the truck comes, I know my blue collar brotha gonna laugh and then get upset at security for wasting his time. Stand your ground!
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u/ChloeisBetter 6h ago
My petty ass would have sat in the parking lot until they closed.
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u/marvology 6h ago
That should be on their advertisements. Some dude tearing into one of their rotisserie chickens before he even leaves the parking lot
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u/anothersip 1h ago
That's bonkers. Yeah, that dude was on some power trip. Which isn't honestly uncommon for security guards (they tend to let their uniform and their responsibility for keeping a place safe get to their heads. not all of them, but a lot of them).
Dude had zero business asking you to move. I'm assuming there was plenty of other parking available in the lot, so that's just completely unnecessary, IMO, and you weren't hurting anyone. In fact, him shooing you along actually puts both you and others on the road in danger, assuming you were starving enough to have to get some food in you in the parking lot... Gotta' have that brain fuel, man.
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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 1h ago
Can’t a person just sit in their car and eat chicken? Apparently not.
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u/strikecat18 1h ago
This would piss me off too. I eat lunch in parking lots at least 3x per week.
Reminds me of when I was in college. Went to my car to nap because I had a 2 hour break between classes. Had campus police knock on my window once to ask if I was okay, then acted surprised when I said I was napping before my next class.
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u/Mykirbyblue 49m ago
I used to be a DoorDash driver. And there would always be a lull mid afternoon between lunch and dinner. So sometimes I would grab something to eat in my car. But other times I would just lean back and shut my eyes and listen to a podcast or something while I waited to hear that familiar alert sound from DoorDash that I was getting an offer. It could easily be 15 to 20 minutes or more between offers in my small town at that time of day during the week. So it was not unusual for me to doze off.
I got those knocks on the window all the freaking time! And it always pissed me off SOOOO much! It was never security or anything like that. it was always just random people, and for some reason they saw me asleep in my car and felt like they needed to check on me? I do not understand that. I would never go disturb someone minding their own business in their own vehicle.
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u/c_marten 6h ago
I've gotten this in the morning when drinking coffee. I just hold up the cup with the logo and point to it, and then go back to my business. Fuck those pricks who think they're doing God's work.
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u/Adventurous_Land7584 6h ago
I’d definitely say something to the manager. I mean you were eating food at the place that employs this person. They need to get a dang grip.
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u/Electrical-Apple-631 4h ago
I have been in the same situation with rotisserie chicken. I bought one for dinner one day but as soon as I got in the car the aroma called out to me. I prayed “Get thee behind me Satan” and he pushed me right to the grocery bag. I tore into that chicken like a Neanderthal who just discovered cooked meat.
About ten minutes later a security guard tapped on my window and asked if I was having car trouble. I said no, but if he could open my hatchback and grab the package of napkins I’d appreciate it. He laughed, gave me my napkins, and said he was going to go get some chicken.
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u/TheHarlemHellfighter 4h ago
That would get under my skin too.
Seems like you took enough precautions before all it happened yet the security guard probably watched you the entire time and decided to just be an asshat.
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u/ProcedureOk6930 1h ago
How about naming the city and the specific store so it can get harassed properly, wth are we supposed to do with this
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u/mitsyamarsupial 5h ago
You bought it in the damn store! It's not like you grabbed some Arby's & rolled up into their little coffee shop area. I rarely get righteously indignant on a stranger's behalf, BUT POINT ME TO THEIR GOOGLE REVIEWS.
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u/AngryAlien21 3h ago
You are a customer. If they weren’t pressed for parking spots, there’s no reason you can’t eat the lunch you bought at that store in their parking lot. Call the manager
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u/whistlepig4life 1h ago
That’s when you say “call the cops. Now. Because I want this in writing when I take this to your corporate overlords”.
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u/Helpful_Distance3427 6h ago
Take the half eaten chicken back in for a refund due to the rude employee.
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u/eyedrops_364 6h ago
Who or what grocery chain and or in what city has grocery store security?
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u/hydratedstoner 6h ago
Starts with a W and I’m in California
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u/NorthboundLynx 2h ago
Better question; was it a whole foods in a rich area? Because that would suddenly make sense
*would still not make it right, just to be clear
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u/SandstoneCastle 6h ago
Starts with a W
Amazon?
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u/Kewped 5h ago
Wamazon
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u/hydratedstoner 5h ago
Wamazon rotisserie chicken just hits different when security watches you eat it
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u/EternalGIory 6h ago
Couldnt they leave you be? Unless you’re blocking something or occupying two parking spots on a busy day? Maybe they didnt have anything better to do.
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u/Fromdustcomesdreams Go back to sleep 5h ago
For all the times I was eating general tsos popcorn chicken in the parking lot of a Walmart I have never been approached like that.
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u/TalkToHoro 5h ago
"Move along"
"Why??
"This lot is for customers only"
(WAVES CHICKEN CARCASS) "I AM a customer, Officer Opie!" (ROLLS WINDOW UP, CONTINUES TO CHOW DOWN)
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u/Miles_Everhart 4h ago
I’d grab my receipt walk back into the store and lodge a complaint with management. Fuck that guy.
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u/nightmurder01 5h ago edited 4h ago
Tell them to take that hot air to aisles x where the balloons are.
Edited for the lols
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u/CorgiManDan 4h ago
I would have made them follow me back into the store and asked for the store manager. "is this the store policy? A customer who just stopped in, dropped $100 for groceries, and decided to eat in the parking lot because of low blood sugar is harassed by security for sitting in the parked car for a few minutes after getting back to the car. Is this what your policy is?"
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u/HeyBeers 5h ago
Step 1. Roll up window
Step 2. Ignore.
Step 3. Eat chicken.
No words needed.
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u/Informal_Process2238 1h ago
Got told to leave the McDonalds parking lot while eating the food I just bought there because “they were expecting a delivery “ I was in a regular parking spot amongst other cars in my work truck. Some people just have nothing better to do than fuck with people
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u/Neat-Substance-9274 1h ago
I would save that receipt and call the store manager during normal business hours. If that proves unsatisfying, call the chain corporate office. Maybe write to them.
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u/ForwardCulture 1h ago
I’ve taken naps in the parking lots of several local grocery stores in my area. A couple months back I rolled up at Whole Foods and didn’t feel like walking in the rain, took a nap no issues for an hour then went inside to shop. Same for a road trip in my state easier this year. Pulled into a grocery store, took a quick nap, went inside to get a snack and went on my way.
I’ve seen people eating during lunch time, working on laptops etc.
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u/SirGuy11 6h ago
“ I end up grabbing a rotisserie chicken some greens, and fruit before heading out.”
“I just spent over 100$ in your damn store”
Inflation is no joke.
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u/ProbioticOnARobotic 4h ago
Contact the manager and if they're not nice to you put it in a review. I remember a grocery here (now shut down) giving customers crap for buying bus tickets at their store (guess they don't like poors) and they faced major backlash for it. These places suck.
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u/Burdockho 3h ago
That’s wild! Ppl eating in their car @ the grocery store is usually the least of security concerns.
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u/Reasonable_Name_9348 2h ago
Our local family-owned grocery store has a huge deli with a lot of grandmother type ladies doing all the cooking, they have some great home cooked food, but my favorite is they sell a pint cup of General Tso chicken for under $5. I have sat in that parking lot many times and devoured an entire cup with a soda from the vending machine out front. The best cheap lunch on the planet! I would tell Barney Fiffe to get a life.
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u/rackfocus 4h ago
Tell the local manager and corporate that that security is too enthusiastic. You are a customer who bought food to eat at their store.
Even asking for a receipt is intrusive. American paranoia.
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u/psbales 4h ago edited 4h ago
It wasn’t an actual cop, right? Assuming it was some ‘rent-a-cop”, tell him to call the cops to trespass me, otherwise he can fuck right off & roll up the window. If he does call the cops, it’ll take them 6 hours to show, if they show at all. By that time, the chicken is safely in yo’ belly and you moved on with your day.
He’s literally powerless. Let ‘em be big angry.
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u/Pinkhairdobtcare 5h ago
My husband and I go feral for Costco chicken and wings.
It’s a bit of a drive for us so we a definitely diving into that rotisserie chicken with every bit of gusto we can muster.
The guy was probably on an ego trip.
I hate people sometimes.
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u/Vinklebottom 4h ago
My homie! Going to town on a rotisserie chicken in your car is amazing! You should have licked the grease off your fingers while chewing and menacingly staring at that security guard
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u/kyrakitty21 4h ago
100% complain to the store management about it and let them know that this makes you not want to return to their store.
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u/TartAppl3 3h ago
Gotta get more feral, really lean into it. Fuck 'em. You weren't bothering anyone.
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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 3h ago
I would have just rolled up my windows and ignored him.
He'll either go away or call the cops...and business owners dont usually like it when their employees call the cops on a paying customer who isn't breaking any laws.
In fact, they can get sued for that, depending on what state you live in!!!
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u/Regular-Ad1930 2h ago
Oooh I would've been livid 😈 you can park n eat wherever you want!! It was some snarky man wasn't it?
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u/heavymetalmater 2h ago
Ya that’s insane. I literally eat lunch in an HEB (our local grocery store) parking lot like 3 times a week because my job’s break room smells like a combo of seafood, bbq, pizza, burgers, etc. and I have a sensitive stomach. I would throw a bitch fit if someone had the nerve to bitch at me about that.
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u/CyrusTheWise 3h ago
Can't loiter, Can't stay at home cause you can't afford it, can't go out cause it's too expensive, can't go to the mall cause they're all closed.
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u/colin8651 5h ago
Down south police do a stop and frisk for drivers that stay too long at the gas station after buying something
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u/Heizer1 4h ago
I'm a trades guy in Florida. Never saw any of that shit happen in a parking lot here. We always park far away to find the shadow spots. Eating, taking naps, whatever.
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u/colin8651 4h ago
This sheriff’s department in Georgia as an example, seem to use it as a tried and true tactic.
Just skimmed through it to see if it’s an example video, and yes, they keep going back to the gas station when they are not busy from less 911 calls, and have to start hooking fish on their own.
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u/Herry_Up 4h ago
Where down south cuz that has never once happened to me or anyone I know lol and we're all Mexican in Texas
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u/Embarrassed-Sun5764 4h ago
I went to a W store and this associate came up behind me while I was looking at cat food. This is like 7 am. She said EXCUSE MEEee like I was in her way so she could do inventory or whatever. I turned and looked with the “wtf” look. I moved over an isle and she didn’t know I had left. She 💩talked about me to co worker in the aisle “these customers are so rude, who do they think they are looking at me like that”
I reported her to management. I’m your customer. I was buying cat food for an animal I had to put down yesterday.
EXCUSE MEEee too. Cretin
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u/TalkingLampPost 6h ago
How shitty is the neighborhood you’re in
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u/hydratedstoner 5h ago
On a scale of 1 to “store security thinks eating roasted chicken in a car is a felony” we’re pretty high up there today lol
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u/bitNine 4h ago
I always question posts like this when the person puts the dollar sign after the number of dollars. Nobody anywhere, ever, in this country has ever taught or been taught to do that. AI also wouldn’t make this mistake.
What to believe…
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u/ew73 4h ago
For what it's worth, about a week ago, there's a little commercial.. enclave? anchored by a Wal-mart, with a bunch of those little retail stores around the periphery. I pulled into a spot in the main parking area, nearest the Jack in the Box, but not actually in the JITB lot (it's tiny and a pain in the ass).
My goal? Mobile order and then go through the drive thru, because I'm a lazy sack of shit. Like OP, maybe 3 minutes into phone-scrolling, car still on, just sitting in a mostly-empty lot some security dweeb comes up and is like, "They don't want people in sitting around in their cars here."
Admittedly, the area is near a freeway, and they have a significant.. transient population issue, but for fuck's sake,
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u/WrappedInLinen 3h ago
I’m always trying to figure out what to call those things. “Commercial enclave” is perfect. Thank you.
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u/BBQBaconBurger 4h ago
The best is when people write ‘$5 dollars’. Five dollars dollars
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u/Ph1ndham 2h ago
This is how you get $100 dollars from an ATM machine ( ATM Automatic Teller Machine machine)? 🤣
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u/butterfingahs 2h ago
You don't have to have entirely grown up in this country to live in this country.
For me it was because you say one hundred ollars. Not dollars on hundred. It took a while to get used to, and I spoke pretty fluent English for longer than I've lived here, I just didn't see dollar amounts be written down consistently enough to jot it into memory until waaaaaay later.
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u/Outside-Pear9429 2h ago
I have seen humans do this forever. It's from people hearing "one hundred dollars," which does sound like the dollar sign should come after the number. It's not correct but it's not new. It's not that serious.
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u/Competitive-Outside8 2h ago
It's also how it works with many other currencies, including our own cents. Probably because it just makes sense to do it that way. We don't put the unit symbol before the number for anything else.
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u/EBannion 2h ago
I do this all the time, because I think “one hundred dollars” and I type as I think. I don’t usually go back to fix it, and I don’t think “dollars one hundred.”
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u/Frequent_Opportunist 2h ago
I've met people from Oklahoma that finished highschool but , still , purposely , made their commas , like , this , with a space , before each , one. More than one person mind you making the same weird grammar mistakes.
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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 1h ago
I hate the spaces before punctuation so, so much. Why do they even do that? What is it supposed to improve? WHY
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u/latx5 3h ago
I do it regularly.
In chats and texts when I need to be quick or I’m not super concerned about being proper I type my thoughts and I always say the amount $.
That’s how I think it, say it, and type it often.
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u/Salt-Philosopher214 2h ago
They aren't taught it, they just do it themselves.
A lot of the younger generation puts $ after the number, its just how texting has evolved. I have many clients who will come in who are young, write $ after the number and their parents will tell them thats wrong.
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u/HaloGuy381 1h ago
It matches how people talk (“thirty dollars”, not “dollars thirty”), and texting tends to follow conversational English more than written English.
It looks ugly in writing and is indeed wrong, but clearly the meaning is not lost so it still works for casual use. I’ve certainly done it at times when I’m in a hurry and not proofreading my stream of thought.
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u/Potential-Ad-196 1h ago
That’s how I type it. Because it’s how I say it. The word dollars comes after the number 🤷🏼♂️
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u/FearlessRecord8999 2h ago
I remember my English teacher in highschool complaining about how some people were putting 5$ instead of $5. It's because some people when they read it, write it the same way.
Everyone's brain works a little differently
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u/Bunbury42 3h ago
Literacy rates are shocking poor in America. I see people say "loose" when they mean "lose" so often that I have subconsciously swapped them when reading and confused myself in the cases where someone used the right word. You are correct about the education, but people are often ignorant.
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u/joeDUBstep 3h ago
"Are" for "our" is shit too.
Also, the infamous "of" for "have."
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u/MrHappyBike 2h ago
Its possible that your not seeing things correctly. Their doing they're best to communicate. Luckily, grammer is my fortay, but its a mute point.
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u/porp_crawl 1h ago
For all intensive purposes I could care less and it just adds street catch it.
But less unseriously, I've actually seen "paddle stool" in the wild.
(pedestal, as in, putting someone on a pedestal)
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u/hydratedstoner 2h ago edited 2h ago
I think that’s different than putting the $ sign after the number tho. I wouldn’t say it makes me illiterate. Especially for a Reddit post
Also idk why it’s shocking to you. The U.S.’ education system is pretty shit and it’s only getting worse
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u/Allysum 3h ago
True about most things but not about where the dollar sign goes.
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u/hydratedstoner 3h ago
If that’s all it takes to deter you from a post idk what you’re doing here lol
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u/upsidedown-funnel 2h ago
I do it all the time out of sheer laziness, when typing. I do it with the £ sign too. Really it’s a weird thing to be annoyed by.
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u/watermelonbreezy 6h ago
Duh, it’s a car chicken after all!! I’m carnivore so it’s an almost daily occurrence for me.
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u/AlexanderDaDecent 3h ago
“So I guess I’m going to dedicate an extra hour every time I go to the store to park in the front and eat a rotisserie chicken out of spite” is how this post should have ended.
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u/ExpertRegister1353 6h ago
Was it racial?
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u/hydratedstoner 6h ago
Who knows. I am a mixed woman of color in the U.S. though so.. can’t rule it out lol
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u/Libertyprime8397 1h ago
I would also tell you to leave if I saw you knuckles deep in a rotisserie chicken.
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u/IllustriousValue9907 1h ago
It sounds like a security gaurd, who thinks he is more important than he really is. I would have driven my car closer to the store and filed a complaint with the manager.
Some of those security guys got head so far up where sun dont shine it ridiculous. I saw a YouTube video of a security gaurd shooting a man in his car after months of interactions with man. The guy was there to haul off pallets for one of the tenants.
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u/2dogs1sword0patience 6h ago
Not wrong to be angry/upset, but don't inconvenience yourself by switching grocery stores if you like this one. It was just one asshole employee, they don't represent the entire brand. If you like the food and prices and location just keep going.
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u/Dcmart89 5h ago
The security guard at my local grocery causes waaaay more shit than he solves. I think we shop at the same place.
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u/APathSoTwisted 4h ago
I'm with you. I've been eating in my car for years, and no over had ever harassed me for it. Super weird. You should tell the store though, maybe that security guard needs fired
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u/Herry_Up 4h ago
I eat in parking lots all the time cuz I don't wanna eat cold food when I get home.
That's fucking dumb.
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u/No-Step3301 3h ago
I always do that when I'm hungry. I'll make a sandwich in my car from the stuff I just bought. If security or any worker said something I'd be having words with management
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u/scandal_jmusic_mania 3h ago
Should have jammed more chicken into your mouth and turn to him with a feral look on your face.
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u/junkeee999 2h ago
I work in a cargo van. Eating in parking lots when I have few spare minutes is a regular thing for me. Ever had that happen, fortunately. That security guy really needs a life.
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u/GullibleEquipment273 2h ago
I would’ve told him it’ll be another 10 minutes until my friend comes out as she’s doing her own shopping
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u/HsinVega 6h ago
There's a video of a guy eating chipotle in the parking lot and the store called the cops on him and they couldn't understand why he was still parked in front of the chipotle... While he was eating the chipotle...