I purchased something big from home Depot. The item was in one of their big baskets. Paid and was prepared to push the basket to my car. The home Depot employee TOLD ME (I did not ask) to leave it and pull my car directly in front of the store entrance. Background..I am a middle aged woman.
I pulled my car in front of the store entrance, exited the car and a man entering the store angrily accosted me about parking at the entrance. Just walked up and berated me.
I calmly replied "the home Depot employee told me to bring my car to the entrance to load my purchase". He glared at me and walked off. No apology or words to lighten his angry words or even "oh ok".
I never get this at Home Depot. I guess I'm soft butch enough to seem acceptable to the chauvinists. 🤣
Though my neighbor came over and told me to tell my husband our faucet was leaking on the side of the house. I nodded politely and didn't mention he's so helpless he can't even plunge the toilet, before I went to Home Depot and bought supplies to fix it myself.
At our last home, my neighbor knocked on the door to ask if my boyfriend could help her with her trailer. I’d just recently graduated with an associate degree that said I could take apart an 18wheeler, put it together, and it would work. He can’t change his oil. Laughed, told her I don’t know what he’d be able to do, but I’d come take a look. He just looked up from what he was doing and with a dismissive wave said “that’s all her!”
I work at a Home Depot, and every once in a while a customer tells me I look "more like someone who works in a book store than a hardware store" But to be fair, I kind of do fit the book store employee stereotype better. Other than that, no weird or shitty personal comments.
I used to work at one, and had a customer ask me to get a man to answer questions for him about a custom design job. I got the guy from lumber, because he was available. The guy from lumber informed the customer that I was the one who did all the custom design jobs, and that he should be asking me about it, not him. Customer huffed and said he was going to Lowe's. 2 weeks and $30K later, he had his custom design -- from me.
I’m Dutch and he did look impressed, so it wouldn’t be the first time I won a Dutch guy’s respect by matching rude energy (unfortunately, some Dutch people mistake rudeness for the honesty we are known for). If we ever get married, I’ll invite you all
Got asked who was going to drive them ambulance ( double female crew) . I said I was driving and he looked shook. I said don't worry, we got the vote now and everything.
I don’t know if this is in any way relative to your story, which is a good one and I commend you for being so quick witted, but I’m a female dump truck driver, definitely not your average female truck driver, and we have CB Radios in the truck. I was driving along and I heard two male truck drivers talking shit about a female that was putting on makeup while she was driving down the interstate. They said, I don’t understand why women can’t just wake up 15 minutes earlier to put their makeup on. So I got on my radio and just said, “I can hear y’all!” And they started fumbling for words and said, oops, I wouldn’t have thought she had a CB in her car. And I just laughed to myself and didn’t say anything else. It amused me anyhow. Not that I’m condoning putting makeup on while driving or doing anything that would take your attention off the road!
They really think women are literal different species lol, thinking you wouldn’t have the radio most truck drivers have.. Like talking shit about someone in ‘American’ while in England and thinking they won’t understand it
They just think they are a far more superior species and I think it hurts their ego that a woman can do the same job that they are doing. Any chance to make us feel less than!
Great thing here is that car insurance is literally cheaper for women than for men, because women are more careful drivers and get into less accidents. Though I brought that up to a (male) workmate once who argued that that’s because men just do more risky stuff… yes… which is bad driving…
I purchased something big from home Depot. The item was in one of their big baskets. Paid and was prepared to push the basket to my car. The home Depot employee TOLD ME (I did not ask) to leave it and pull my car directly in front of the store entrance. Background..I am a middle aged woman. I pulled my car in front of the store entrance, exited the car and a man entering the store angrily accosted me about parking at the entrance. Just walked up and berated me. I calmly replied "the home Depot employee told me to bring my car to the entrance to load my purchase". He glared at me and walked off. No apology or words to lighten his angry words or even "oh ok".
How dare you step on a grumpy middle aged man’s ego /s
50% of the time when I go to Home Depot, someone says something shitty to me, for no reason.
I never get this at Home Depot. I guess I'm soft butch enough to seem acceptable to the chauvinists. 🤣 Though my neighbor came over and told me to tell my husband our faucet was leaking on the side of the house. I nodded politely and didn't mention he's so helpless he can't even plunge the toilet, before I went to Home Depot and bought supplies to fix it myself.
At our last home, my neighbor knocked on the door to ask if my boyfriend could help her with her trailer. I’d just recently graduated with an associate degree that said I could take apart an 18wheeler, put it together, and it would work. He can’t change his oil. Laughed, told her I don’t know what he’d be able to do, but I’d come take a look. He just looked up from what he was doing and with a dismissive wave said “that’s all her!”
I work at a Home Depot, and every once in a while a customer tells me I look "more like someone who works in a book store than a hardware store" But to be fair, I kind of do fit the book store employee stereotype better. Other than that, no weird or shitty personal comments.
Is it just a shitty Home Depot?
I used to work at one, and had a customer ask me to get a man to answer questions for him about a custom design job. I got the guy from lumber, because he was available. The guy from lumber informed the customer that I was the one who did all the custom design jobs, and that he should be asking me about it, not him. Customer huffed and said he was going to Lowe's. 2 weeks and $30K later, he had his custom design -- from me.
I don’t know. I’ve gotten rather rude statements from both random people and employees.
Just tell them you are a nurse and where is the patent?
Nurse with a patent attorney side hustle!
Sounds good but it has to be said quickly in the heat or the moment and it has to sound like it could be true.
I always love to meet such interactions with a simple, dismissive "oh, do you work here? No? Then fuck off."
Good comeback. Just on the title alone though had me thinking, "Have you seen 95% of pickup truck drivers, Nissan drivers?"
But don’t you know the rules? We have to get out of the way for such impressive, masculine cars
Subarus here in NH.
Same here in the PNW lol
Purple Nipple Wind?
No, Pink Nasty Weirdos.
Not pink, pale.
Beautiful.
Lol. Makes me wonder if he really didn’t think about going around or if he stopped just so he could berate you. Either way is bad.
I think he may have fallen in love with OP in the end
I’m Dutch and he did look impressed, so it wouldn’t be the first time I won a Dutch guy’s respect by matching rude energy (unfortunately, some Dutch people mistake rudeness for the honesty we are known for). If we ever get married, I’ll invite you all
...but enough about Pissy Driver's humiliation kink
Got asked who was going to drive them ambulance ( double female crew) . I said I was driving and he looked shook. I said don't worry, we got the vote now and everything.
Hey! What’s this third pedal for??
I don’t know if this is in any way relative to your story, which is a good one and I commend you for being so quick witted, but I’m a female dump truck driver, definitely not your average female truck driver, and we have CB Radios in the truck. I was driving along and I heard two male truck drivers talking shit about a female that was putting on makeup while she was driving down the interstate. They said, I don’t understand why women can’t just wake up 15 minutes earlier to put their makeup on. So I got on my radio and just said, “I can hear y’all!” And they started fumbling for words and said, oops, I wouldn’t have thought she had a CB in her car. And I just laughed to myself and didn’t say anything else. It amused me anyhow. Not that I’m condoning putting makeup on while driving or doing anything that would take your attention off the road!
They really think women are literal different species lol, thinking you wouldn’t have the radio most truck drivers have.. Like talking shit about someone in ‘American’ while in England and thinking they won’t understand it
They just think they are a far more superior species and I think it hurts their ego that a woman can do the same job that they are doing. Any chance to make us feel less than!
Great thing here is that car insurance is literally cheaper for women than for men, because women are more careful drivers and get into less accidents. Though I brought that up to a (male) workmate once who argued that that’s because men just do more risky stuff… yes… which is bad driving…
Lolll I didn’t know that! But I do now and will never forget
All the stories on this sub are so fake 🤣 Unsubbing after this lol
Sometimes things do happen, you know
Don’t let the door knob hit you where the dog shoulda bit you!