None of us know the full story, not even Chris Heuer himself. I’m no conspiracist, but I do know that just because it’s easier to believe doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be true. Good lord, hasn’t Mother Nature already proved that over again and again?

That Starbucks cashier is just an ass, and needs to have his recto-cranial inversion fixed ASAP!

On the reverse explain that after months of ordering the same clerk behind the counter either can’t recognize you because of the large clientel of deaf he has or just enjoys yanking chains, but you are trying to make life easier on yourself and others in line since he can’t get his act together.

One brief humiliation is all it will take. You are by no means the isuue, it is the brain dead zombie behind the counter. Make sure that some one alerts management or better yet media when you do this as Starbucks needs all the positive press they can get right now!

Many are just a$$holes. Would you be equally defensive of deaf people who do something like that? “Oh, it’s not that he’s acting like an a$$hole… he has ADD and this causes him to have a hard time politely focusing on and effectively serving the people he’s PAID to focus on and serve…”

Deaf people only deserve to be bashed, and hering people are off the hook because there MUST be some reason for their acting like this that excuses them from, gosh, just EVERYTHING!”

Occam’s Razor, anyone?

We live in a very middle class neighborhood. It rangers from low-middle to upper-middle class. With that in mind, the family member was shopping and she saw this family who just completely stuck out like a sore thumb.

There was a lady with her 4 kids. The mother had long, dyed blond hair that had obviously not been cut in a long time. You know that type of hair. And she was dressed really skimpily - SHORT frayed demin shorts with a tank-top, and her approximately sixteen year old daughter was dressed similarly.

The daughter was standing there, awestruck and yowling, ‘Oh look Mama! Lookeeee!’ over and over. The mother was cooing and replying to the daughter in a very similar manner. The teenager son was using the shopping cart as a scooter, with two SCREAMING toddlers in it.

Well, I guess the teenage son had hit an old man with the cart. So the old man goes up to the woman and says, “So… Your first time in a grocery store?”

The woman turns around and my family member just cringed. The woman was OLD. She was wrinkly and had missing teeth. :P

The woman stares indignantly at the old man and says, “What?”

He says to her, “You might want to take a look around here. Observe the other shoppers’ behavior and imitate them.”

The woman was like, “How dare you say that?!”

The old man says something that my family member couldn’t hear and the woman just gets more upset, but then the old man walks up to the woman’s shopping cart and says, “And I see you are raising a passel of savages.” It was at that point that everyone else noticed the reason why the toddlers were screaming. They were punching the crap out of each other. A knock-down, drag out fight.

The woman says, “Hey! I’m trying my best to keep them under control!”

Another shopper who was also watching then jumped in with, “Trying your best? Lady, I could hear your kids 3 aisles down!”

And the old man says, “No, you’re not. You’re just yapping.”

Needless to say, that family left and haven’t been seen since. Not by my family member at least.

I think if that old man actually threw a tantrum, it wouldn’t have been as amusing to watch it all unfold and nobody would be cheering the old man on. The old man by all accounts kept a cool head, but he sure as heck drove the point home.

With that hearing guy you told us about… Yeah. I would call that a tantrum. But would I say that to his face? No. I wouldn’t want to get punched out. :P