My girlfriend and I went to Verizon to see about getting me an upgrade on my phone (which I despise owning a cell phone in the first place).
A handsome young man greeted us at the door and was extremely friendly and helpful and jumped right in to see how he could be of service.
About 5 minutes into the conversation he asked what some of my complaints were and I mentioned that my outdated flip phone had some kind of control buttons on each side and that I was always hitting them by accident and one being a volume control that would shut off my ringer. Being old school my ringer is set on the sound of an old timey phone (bell) ring sound
It was at this point I made my mistake, I said- "I often seem to hit the external volume controls by accident and turn it off....(and here comes my utter insensitivity) "And she yells at me for not answering her phone calls.
Sweet Jesus on a purple moped shit hit the fan! She proceeded to shut the whole program down and lectured me as to why that statement was all wrong and why. She started with the fact I said "she yells at me" and how this "shifts" the blame to her and not taking responsibility for my own actions.
I quickly said sorry, it's just a figure of speech and tried to move forward with our business...(all the time smiling that fake smile like all's good)
She didn't let it go, she continued with why my comment was wrong and after a second apology it was then I became a bit humiliated after being lectured like a child in a public place....AND while trying to conduct a business deal, all the time the temperature outside was rapidly dropping and ice was forming on the streets.
Skipping a few scenes- On the drive home I asked if she was hungry and wanted to grab a bite to eat as the roads were worsening and this lead to more lecture as to how my comment was "not ok" and how it belittled her.
Well now the sh*t really hit the fan because after all she's a tough conservative chick that despises all the "snowflake", *ss-hurt p*ssies" in the world.
I said "Didn't realize you needed a safe space" and kind of gave a little fake laugh. Sweet Holy Mary Mother Of All That Is Sacred!
Didn't speak to me all night. I just want to ask my friends here and don't be gentle. Was I really that out of line? Was she already on edge? Or was I just straight-up an *sshole for saying what I did?
As a school teacher she is always using terms I find annoying. Being somewhat old fashioned I prefer you to speak to me in layman's terms, not these made-up buzz words that our society has seemed to create to replace common language.
I've taken this far enough, please give me your input
Was I an insensitive douche or just an uninformed backwoods hillbilly? Or both?
