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Some people really expect strangers to back them up, even when they’re the ones causing the problem.

One shopper found herself in that situation while standing behind a woman buying fake flowers.

When the cashier explained that she couldn’t use the larger bags behind the counter, the customer immediately got annoyed.

Before long, she was demanding a refund and repeatedly looking back at the shopper like she expected her to agree.

Then, the woman finally asked if she could believe what was happening.

Read on to see how the story played out.

Belittle the cashier and look to me for support?

I worked retail on and off for a period of about 6 years before and during college. I know all about difficult customers.

One day, I was in Jofab as a customer, and the lady in front of me is buying fake flowers. As they’re wrapping up the transaction, the elderly cashier tells the middle-aged woman checking out that they don’t have any large bags to use.

MAW is obviously annoyed. She sees large bags behind the EC and demands she use those.

EC says she’s not allowed to take those bags for whatever reason. I’m, like, not sure why that would ever happen, but maybe her manager is awful.

Then, the customer got even more rude.

MAW starts huffing and puffing and looks to me for support a few times.

Then she decides to be a super jerk to EC and goes, “If you can’t give me a bigger bag, then just return it all right now!”

So she dumps out the bag of flowers and has EC return it.

Fed up, this woman decided to speak up.

As she’s returning it, MAW keeps huffing, eye-rolling, and looking back at me to support her. She says something to me like, “Can you believe this?”

And I look at her and, no lie, “Can I believe that a grown woman is acting like a child and being extremely disrespectful to this cashier? No, I can’t! I was raised to respect my elders, but obviously you weren’t. Stop looking back at me to take your side because there’s no way that’s going to happen. You’re extremely rude.”

That woman didn’t say a peep after and scurried out with her head between her tail.

EC thanked me and gave me a coupon on my purchase. My favorite moment in retail, though I wasn’t working at the time!

Bravo! Someone needed to tell that woman.

Let’s check out what the readers over at Reddit have to say about what happened.

According to this comment, stuff like that happens all the time.

Okay. This is an interesting point.

Nope. You can’t get fired from a place you don’t work.

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Here’s someone who gets the bag situation.

A big thank you to her for speaking up!

It’s funny how the customer kept looking for support, but she picked the wrong person.

There was no reason to take a bag policy out on the cashier.

But after getting called out like that, let’s hope she thinks twice before trying to pull someone else into it again.