“Many a year ago I worked at a home improvement store called Menards. I was a cart pusher, which was nice as I was outside all the time. Anyway we gather about 25-30 shopping carts together and push them up to the entrance where they are stored inside. Now to get them there we do have to cross the main drive of the parking lot in front of the store. We always stop and let customers drive by.
So as I push the carts up I stop because I see a guy in a pretty nice SUV. He is actually stopped in front of the entrance maybe he dropped someone off I do not know. So I’m waiting to see if he drives off and he then looks at me and waves me across, looks like he wanted to finish a call he had gotten or something. So I wave back and start pushing the carts across. I am on the other side when something clips me across the shoulder blades and it stung somewhat and pushed me forward.
At the same time I heard glass shatter, I turn around and the guy in the SUV clipped me with his sideview mirror. It had swung closed and shattered the window in the door, and I’m just standing there wide-eyed. Two seconds later the guy gets out of his car swearing up a storm at me and how I’m a low life piece of trash and how I’m going to pay for a new window and that I’m not going to get anywhere in life because I broke his window. Now I’m the type of person that if I was the reason I’ll take the blame and fix the problem.
But this guy hit me, I blew up on him for about five minutes before a manager finally had the guts to come over and pull me away. I didn’t have to pay for a new window as it was on video, but I lost my job because we are not supposed to yell and cuss at the customer.”
