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I can understand someone needing to get something last-minute on Christmas Eve at a store, but if you spend your time dilly-dallying in a store on that special evening when workers are trying to get out and go home to their loved ones…

YOU’RE A JERK.

And, on top of that, it kind of seems like you’re just doing it on purpose to be difficult.

I said what I said!

In today’s story, a retail store worker talked about an incredibly rude customer who went out of her way to make everyone’s Christmas Eve pretty dreary.

Check out what happened.

Customer forgot we were human beings and had families.

“Christmas in retail is the worst. The music, the sheer amount of people, the glitter. Oh god, the glitter.

A couple years ago I was unfortunate enough to be working Christmas Eve. But we were open for a shorter time than normal, which was nice of the company to do. So 8-4.

Good point…

Why people need to go to a garden center on Christmas Eve, I do not know. Why people need to go anywhere on Christmas Eve will always baffle me.

It had been crazy busy, constant flow of people at the tills and entering the store, 8 hours of “Merry Christmas, do you need a bag?” (Getting shouted at for saying Merry Christmas in case the person didn’t celebrate Christmas).

Of course, they did…

It was 3:55 and we’d done 5 announcements to tell customers the shop was closing and they needed to go to the tills or leave. But typically, some people chose to have selective hearing and continued to shop.

Our managers were on the shop floor slowly herding people towards the door.

One woman (C) didn’t like this and started to kick off. My manager (M) was more than happy to deal with her.

M: excuse me, you need to leave

C: well I’m still shopping and you can’t close the doors whilst I’m still inside (wanna bet?)

M: we will be open Boxing day if there is anything else you want to buy, but please can you go to the tills to pay for your items so we can close?

C: i think its unacceptable that you’re closing early on Christmas Eve.

Come on, lady!

M: well our staff would like to go home and currently you are stopping them from spending whats left of the day with their families

Another few minutes of back and forth, and my manager convinced this woman to pay for her items at 4:07.

At this point, every member of staff had convened at the tills (like we did every night for security reasons). She was not happy about having to pay for her items in front of every member of staff, and claimed we had done it deliberately to embarrass her.

Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t.”

Take a look at what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person had a lot to say.

Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

This individual spoke up.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who is shocked to learn how little he has to do to keep his cushy remote job.

And this reader weighed in.

Ugh…what a jerk!

She was definitely doing this on purpose.

And it sounds like she wanted to be difficult just for the hell of it.

Some customers are simply THE WORST.