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I was at the Post Office on a Saturday; my local post office is located in a neighborhood that is predominently minorities and the people who work in the store are also minorities. But they know me and everyone is always nice to me. But the post office also covers a few upscale neighborhoods in Wilmington
Now on a Saturday at ANY post office, I expect that the lines will be longer and it will take some time to get my stuff done. So I'm usually smart enough to bring a book or magazine to read while I wait in line. But the guy in front of me, an older clean-cut white man, started to get rude with the people working the post office. Normally I would mind my own business, but when I heard "Your people are always trying to do the minimum work possible", well I wasn't going to take that. I tapped the guy on the shoulders and reminded him that this was Saturday and it's the one day everyone is off from work and can make it to the post office to do their business. I didn't yell at him, but I did say it loud enough that others heard him and realized just how unreasonable he was being.
The funny thing was, the post office brought out a 5th person, looked to be a stock person or something, who was taking anyone who was just there to pick-up a package. So even though I was behind in the line of that ignorant racist man, I ended up getting out of there way before him because all I had was a package. BTW, a female postworker nearby thanked me for what I said. She's a really nice gal, speaks two languages fluently because they get alot of spanish speaking customers in the post office
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