Fast food workers have a lot to do and they aren’t paid the best, so it is a good idea to be patient with them while ordering.

What would you do if you witnessed someone being a little impatient and maybe rude to the workers where you were having lunch?

That is what happened to the woman in this story, so she made fun of the customer and argued with him in front of everyone until he left.

AITA for mocking a rude man in public?

I am 37F. The Popeyes I go to has an entirely Mexican staff.

Working in fast food can be hectic.

It’s always very busy in there, they always seem backed up and understaffed like most fast-food places.

One of the workers is a Mexican lady who doesn’t speak English that well. I had already got my food and was sitting in the corner, facing the front of the store.

All this seems pretty normal so far.

I watched an older man (About 50ish) come in. The Mexican lady came up to take his order and he asked her a question about one of the menu items.

I don’t even remember the question, it was something about an ingredient used in one of the sauces. She said she wasn’t sure about the answer, in broken English.

Oh, well now he is being a jerk.

He loudly started moaning about how no one here speaks English, and started calling out to the back of the employee area “anyone speak English here?”

The lady went to get the manager, but he was busy taking drive thru orders.

It seems like the workers are all being very professional.

A few minutes later, while the man huffed and grumbled to himself the entire time, the manager came over and answered his question about the sauce, then rang him up.

The entire time he was ringing the guy up he was complaining about how none of their staff speak English. The manager did speak English much better than his other employee.

Ok, that’s kind of funny.

This is when I loudly said “Wah wah!” imitating a baby crying and put my hands beside my eyes in the crying motion.

The man turned around and said “…are you talking to me?”

Not exactly being nice herself.

I said yeah I’m talking to you, then said “Wah wah! No one speaks English! No one speaks English!” in a mocking way.

The man was flabbergasted and argued with me for quite a while but didn’t approach me.

She just isn’t letting it go.

I told him “she DOES speak English and when she didn’t know the answer to your question she went and got an employee that did know. You just had to wait a few minutes but you’re fine, you big baby.”

I continued to make baby crying sounds at him until he left with his order. I don’t feel bad at all about what I did but I’m curious to know what other people think.

If this is the case, then she likely should have minded her own business. People are allowed to be annoyed.

I should note he wasn’t calling the workers names or yelling at them, just being mildly annoying the way he was constantly muttering and shaking his head like it was such an injustice.

AITA?

Kind of, but so was he. It would likely be better to just ignore the situation, but it is hard to say based on the information provided.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

This is a good point.

He was being insulting.

The guy was definitely out of line.

Yeah, the workers are pretty impressive.

This commenter says she was sticking up for the workers.

What happened to two wrongs don’t make a right?

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