Elderly Man Assaulted by Area Web Designer

Well, I don't know if I can top the reaction I got from the moth story, but I gotta keep at it so bear with me...

So I'm at the grocery store in Carlsbad. The lines are long and a new checkstand opens up in front of me. I am the first in line and I see the old guy jack a woman for the #2 spot. Dick move but whatever. As the Checker begins scanning my items, he notices that are not registering in the scanner. Immediately I hear the hemming and hawing from the coot behind me (who just moved up about 6 spots when the new lane opened). The Checker says, "Hmm, this is weird" and the old guy starts with the yelling. "Hey! What's going on?! That thing broken?? Are you doing it right?" The checker doesn't look up, just laughs nervously and continues to troubleshoot the problem. The old guy continues to badger the Checker and eventually demands a discount for being made to wait (about 30 seconds at this point). After a failed attempt at an organized protest for a discount by this old prick, (I love it when people try to involve me in their ridiculous 1940s soup line riot. This is not a union meeting and we're not flipping over displays or lighting anything on fire over this. Shut the fuck up.) the Checker opens a new checkstand and moves all my items.

The guy was really pissing me off, but I factored in that old people are on fixed incomes and he probably took the bus to get there. I've been dependent on public transit and it's no life of luxury. Every penny and second counts. For this reason, I did not turn around and tell him that if he shouted one more thing over my shoulder, I was going to bitch-slap an old man in front of several witnesses and I wasn't super-comfortable being "that guy". I like to keep my senior abuse private.

As I was getting into my truck, I watched him climb into a brand spakin' new Bentley Continental GTC. I probably would have made the news, but I really should have slapped him.