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In high school I worked at a larger athletic shoe store in the mall. One day, this cute little 7ish year old boy comes up to me and asks when the new Jordan's are coming out. I tell him it's in two days and he starts jumping for joy, chanting "jor-dans-day jor-dans-day...," doing cartwheels, high fiving people around him, all kinds of silly stuff. I give him a... Read More » high five and start to laugh as he keeps celebrating. Perfectly acceptable reaction, right? Apparently not. The kid's mom stomps over, screams at me to shut-up, BACKHANDS ME IN THE FACE, grabs the kid, and demands to see my manager. She tells my manager that I lied to the kid about the Jordan's release date to get him to cause a scene. She also says she's going to sue me and the company because I'm a racist and was telling other customers that he was "mentally handicapped, retarded, and black on top of that so they would judge him." Another customer I had been helping goes up to her, says he's a lawyer, he witnessed the whole thing, that nothing in her story happen, and that he'll gladly represent me in the case I have against her for the slap. She throws the boy over her shoulder and LITERALLY sprints out of the store. My manager gave me a pair of the Jordan's for free and let me go home early with pay.

February 24, 2012