'Nothing slowed this man down but other customers putting him in his place': Entitled Boomer claims he has a medical condition and can't wait in line, waiting customers stand up for employees

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    • r/BoomersBeing Fools 19 hr. ago afantasticnerd Millennial Precious Boomer is allergic to waiting in line. Literally. (Bonus: I got a freebee for speaking up)
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    I went to get my passport photo taken at AAA recently, and the nice woman at the front desk tells me it's going to be about a 30min wait. No big deal, so I sit with several other people, some of whom are chatting, but mostly quiet. I'm looking at my phone. when Precious Boomer (PB) checks in a little
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    while later. He sits a couple chairs away, and starts fidgeting, DMV papers in hand, clearly not happy with being told to wait. A couple minutes' worth of foot tapping and glancing around go by, and he's had enough.
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    PB walks up to the (busy) front desk about 10ft away, and starts in on the Nice Woman (NW) there. PB: "When am I going to be seen? I shouldn't have to wait for this." He holds up his car registration bill. NW tells him he can. pay it online or wait about 30mins. This is
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    unacceptable. PB: "Why should I wait? Why can't I just pay here now?" NW: "Everyone is here for something like that." PB: "Everyone is here to pay this? For the same thing? Really?"
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    NW: "For something like that, yes. And they're all waiting for their turn." He huffs a few times, and she waves forward a walk-in waiting to check in with her. She checks in a couple more people while he refuses to sit, and instead stands at the
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    desk, glaring at her. Menacingly. In his shorts and sandals. A few more minutes pass, and PB is getting fussy again. A few other folks waiting quietly with me start shooting each other looks and rolling their eyes. The woman sitting behind me is shaking her head. Then things get weirdly entitled.
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    PB: "I don't know why I have to wait. Everywhere I go, I'm first. I walk in, they see me. I don't wait. Anywhere." The woman sitting behind me and I burst out laughing. We look at each other with incredulity. He wasn't done.
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    PB: "I just got off a 15 hour flight from Israel. And now I have to wait? I don't wait." What did he hope to accomplish by saying this? Was he trying to make her decision political? Or to make her feel bad because he was tired and she was making him... sit down? I still don't know. NW reiterates that
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    he can wait his turn, and steps away for a minute. He finds someone else to bother behind the desk until she gets back. Then things get weirdly medical. PB: "I can't be doing this. I have a medical condition. I'm not able to do this."
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    NW: "You're not able to wait your turn?" (her dead politeness really landed it for me) PB: "What?" NW: "You're not able to wait your turn?" At this point PB pauses, realizing what he has implied, then plows forward anyway.
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    PB: "...Yes." The woman sitting behind me and I lose it again. She turns to me and says loudly, "Can you believe this guy?" I reply, loudly, "No, not really. Silence is free. Sitting down is free." She laughs again and makes a call that
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    goes something like, "Yeah, it's gonna be another 10-15 minutes. Some old guy here is trying to cut the line, so entitled." PB keeps his back to us. She hangs up, and he finally sits down again. I ignore him and poke around on my phone. Then things get personal.
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    A young woman holding a camera comes out and calls my name. I stand up and smile. while she points around a corner where we'll take the photo. PB jumps up and stands between us, holds up his papers, and says, "I've been waiting for 15, 20 minutes, when am I going to be seen?"
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    This poor young woman has no idea what childish nonsense this guy has been pulling thus far, and you can tell she's going to offer to check for him or something, which is exactly what he wants. But now he's getting in my way. Now it's my turn.
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    I step forward, look at him, and firmly say, "I've been here longer than that. You can sit down and wait your turn like everyone else." Then he did a thing I've seen the children I used to teach do: he scrunched up his face. and bobbled his head side to side in a silent
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    tantrum. This guy had to be in his 60s. Maybe he just didn't like being told to sit by a(nother) woman, who knows. I just stood still, and stared at him until he finished (like I used to with the kids). Then I pointed to the chair behind him, and said, more firmly this time, "Sit down."
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    The young woman taking my photo and I go around the corner. She immediately says, "Thank you... for being patient," with a knowing look. I apologize to her for my tone, and for his attitude. I tell her about how he's allergic to waiting his turn, and we laugh, take the photo, walk back to the desk
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    (where he was being seen FINALLY), and she slides the photos across the desk while I pull out my wallet. "You're good," she says. I look at her blankly. "Pardon?" I say, still holding my wallet. "You're all set. You can take those," she smiles. "Thanks for coming in. And thank
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    you again... for being so patient." I'm not too bright, but it finally dawns on me. I smile back, thank her, grab my photos, and leave. The moral is simple: Stand up for each other. The AAA folks were so polite, and nothing
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    slowed this man down but other customers putting him in his place because he had no power over us. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Everyone's already uncomfortable, you might as well do the right thing and speak up.
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    The woman sitting behind me and I lose it again. She turns to me and says loudly, "Can you believe this guy?" I reply, loudly, "No, not really. Silence is free. Sitting down is free." She laughs again and makes a call that goes something like, "Yeah, it's gonna be another 10-15 minutes. Some old guy here is trying to cut the line, so entitled."

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