| 1 | While some of the customers that the employees have to deal with can be infuriating, frightening, and downright bizarre, there's more than a few stories about karma coming back to bite a bad customer. |
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| 12 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/hippocrates-is-rolling-over-in-his-grave/780 A doctor calls to confirm a patient's insurance coverage.]] She's insistent that she [[SkewedPriorities urgently needs information on the patient's coverage]], to which the submitter retorts that she should worry about treating the patient first. |
| 13 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/fighting-fire-with-fire-2/1077 A father is unapologetic about his five children's unruly behavior.]] A group of eight men take matters into their own hands, telling the father they're prisoners out on parole and have no qualms about killing a whole family. The unruly bunch leave quickly. |
| 14 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/we-need-one-of-these-in-every-store/192 A customer gets irate for not being served immediately,]] but when he gets very threatening, the next customer in line grabs him in a choke hold and forces him out of the store. |
| 15 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/fast-food-for-fast-thinkers/3204 A cashier overhears the customers insulting their intelligence.]] When one of them comes up to try and outsmart them, the cashier flawlessly answers each question and stumps the customer in the process. |
| 16 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/he-fought-the-law-and-the-law-won/2115 A man claiming to be a lawyer threatens to sue the store,]] only to be defeated by someone experienced in law using the details of the store's policy. |
| 17 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-poser-by-any-other-name-part-2/8983 In the same vein:]] a customer claiming to be a lawyer and threatening to sue gets exposed as a fraud by an actual prosecutor. |
| 18 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/hard-drugs-and-harder-pharmacists/2424 A teen tries to rob a pharmacy,]] and the cashier (the submitter) just points him to the pharmacy storage. The manager is confused over the submitter's nonchalant response, only to see the same teen flee the store, chased by the new hire, a buff 35 yr old trained boxer technician. |
| 19 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/why-cashiers-should-rule-the-world/4230 The submitter is buying tampons for his mother, and is mocked by other customers for it.]] The female cashier catches on, and acts like the submitter's girlfriend in order to embarrass the mocking customers. |
| 20 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/choose-your-battles/1281 A customer tries to return a game that doesn't fit the store's return policy,]] and threatens to beat up the cashier when he gets turned down. The cashier's best friend jumps in with a subtle burn that causes the customer to back down. |
| 21 | -->'''Best Friend:''' Hey, really quick, could I get your name and if you have any severe allergies to pain-killers? ...I’m his wrestling and sparring partner, and I’m calling you an ambulance. |
| 22 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/retail-defender-anticheapskate-edition/906 A customer is insistent on a type of antivirus but isn't willing to pay.]] He comes up with the idea of downloading it (likely illegally), to which another customer suggests a likely malware-ridden porn site. He takes it hook, line and sinker. |
| 23 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/we-need-one-of-these-in-every-store-part-3/1033 A customer tries to get the cashier in trouble by accusing them of racism.]] He gets quickly called out by a bigger, imposing customer, who also happens to be African-American. |
| 24 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/coming-to-a-theater-near-you-gangsta-ushers/371 A customer tries to steal an extra bag for himself,]] only to be cornered by "gangsta ushers." |
| 25 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/why-barkeeps-should-rule-the-world-part-2/2319 This barkeeper]] quickly lectures an unruly customer on the meaning of "on the rocks": |
| 26 | -->'''Submitter:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Do you know what "on the rocks" also means?]]\ |
| 27 | ''*Customer gets thrown out by the doorman*'' |
| 28 | * When [[http://notalwaysright.com/lt-ripley-goes-shopping/71380/ this customer]] finds out the store is out of wasp spray, he buys materials to improvise a flamethrower. |
| 29 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-large-can-of-whoop-a-and-a-side-of-just-desserts/8419 This restaurant worker]] has enough of a kid's unruly behavior and threatens him to get him to leave. He comes back with his mother, who threatens to file a police report. The submitter says that she has nothing on the numerous witnesses who can testify. |
| 30 | -->'''Submitter:''' “So, do you want your can of whoop-ass here, or shall I serve it to you in court?” |
| 31 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-the-navy-his-fate-is-sealed/71475/ A rude customer thinks he can act how he wants just because he's a lieutenant.]] He gets found by his superior, a rear-admiral, who promises to punish him severely when they get back to camp. |
| 32 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-good-ol-fashioned-a-whoopin/1139 A customer attempts to attack a cashier over an expired coupon,]] but gets pulled away by the manager who smacks some sense into him. |
| 33 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-prank-got-spanked/1068 A prank caller reaches a gun store.]] They get scared off with a DramaticGunCock, and a reminder that the Caller ID can identify their location. |
| 34 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/your-prank-got-spanked-part-2/1145 A hotel gets prank-called,]] but calmly and politely tells them to never call back. |
| 35 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/ah-children/10771 A five-year-old]] yells at an irate customer to behave herself, causing her to leave in embarrassment. |
| 36 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/hard-smoker/11050 A customer threatens the cashier]] with TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay, an ex-boxer coworker gleefully takes up the offer, scaring him away. |
| 37 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/whos-got-the-power-now/933 A customer tries to get a refund over a very trivial matter.]] When she tries to escalate the issue, the technician bluntly tells her that it's not happening, and disconnects the call after she is reduced to begging for the refund. |
| 38 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/whos-got-the-power-now-part-2/1857 A customer who's defaulted on his electrical bills]] threatens to kill the submitter. The response: |
| 39 | -->'''Submitter:''' “The difference between you and me, sir, is that I know where YOU live.” |
| 40 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-kick-up-a-fuss-if-your-heart-isnt-in-it/11027 This selfish passenger]] is annoyed that he has to wait on the plane because another passenger had a heart attack and needed the paramedics to transport him out. When he starts kicking up a fuss, a different passenger tells him off, asking him to put himself in the patient's shoes. |
| 41 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/smoke-your-veggies/71714/ This mother]] learns [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes from her daughter]] that her son has been smoking weed in secret. She decides to order some extra fragrant food to torture her son and his friends when their cravings set in. |
| 42 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/let-me-give-you-a-pizza-my-mind/71810/ By sheer coincidence, this submitter's workplace and her home have very similar phone numbers.]] An insistent caller tries to make an order on a day when the restaurant is closed, and when her father picks up, he decides to settle the matter personally. Not only was the caller forced to eat his words, he followed up at a later day with a tip and a letter of apology. |
| 43 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-devil-you-know/72603/ A bigoted patient requests that another nurse attend to her, due to prejudice against the submitter's sect.]] The coworker comes in, explains that the submitter is more of a model Christian than the patient thought of her, and also exposits on her own less-than-ideal-Christian lifestyle. |
| 44 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/can-i-show-you-my-social-insecurity-card/73319/ A customer is adamant about not needing to show his ID.]] Another customer intuits his insecurities and embarrasses him about it. |
| 45 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-press-comes-to-shove/73611/ This lady's fiancé]] intimidates a rude customer into backing off. |
| 46 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/dovahkiins-day-off/74018/ A customer]] snatches away another customer's pre-order copy of ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}''. A tall man catches on to what's happening, and rams the fleeing thief into the arms of security with a '''"FUS RO DAH!"''' |
| 47 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-can-light-up-the-skyrim/75954/ This worker at a comic book store]] gets called to attend to a faulty bathroom bulb, but he's well aware of the time it takes for the bathroom lights to come on. He has a little fun with this, and fits in a well-timed '''"STRUN BAH QO!"'''[[labelnote:*]][[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "T-The Dragonborn..."]][[/labelnote]] |
| 48 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-who-giveth/72734/ This security manager]] reprimands a client for unsafe security practices, and when the client is unapologetic about it, he brings the issue with the client's own manager, and both agree to punish him by removing his computer. |
| 49 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-strong-arm-of-the-law/74362/ A pair of suspicious customers walk in]] and the cashier recognizes one of them, who has been blacklisted for selling stolen merchandise. As the cashier stalls for time, a police officer comes in and corners them until they are properly arrested. |
| 50 | --> '''Officer:''' “If you take one more step, I WILL taze you!” |
| 51 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/man-up-and-let-a-woman-fix-it/74414/ A bigoted customer refuses to let women handle his tech support.]] So when the male manager intervenes, he immediately hands the phone over to the female submitter, who's the only one among who knows how to fix it, and puts the customer in his place. |
| 52 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/se-habla-japanol/9879 This employee]] is a real CunningLinguist, engaging a customer with their limited grasp of Spanish before managing to flawlessly take the order in Japanese. |
| 53 | * A security guard catches a camera thief between a rock and a hard place. [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-woes/21598 "Sir, I can either charge you with stealing, or I can charge you with stalking and pedophilia, since this lady is obviously a minor. Which one is it going to be?"]] |
| 54 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/revenge-is-a-treat-best-served-sweet-part-2/21708 In the war against rudeness, a reward for politeness can work wonders.]] |
| 55 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/smile-youre-on-sordid-camera/21721 Say cheese!]] A female supervisor persuades an aggressive and misogynistic customer to let her take his photo and contact information, ostensibly "so we can contact you about your complaint", really to report him to the police. |
| 56 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/semper-bye-bye/74558 When this cashier gets hit on by a sleazy customer,]] she calls up a stock personnel to scare him off. |
| 57 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-well-defend/74574/ An aggressive customer]] gets taken down by a smaller woman, who also calls out the apathetic manager. |
| 58 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/r-e-s-p-e-c-t/74617/ When this bigoted customer]] gets aggressive towards the female workers, one of them plays up her reputation of a "man-beater" to scare him off. |
| 59 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-cosplayer-is-always-right/22297 That time when Batman, Master Chief and Pikachu saved a Japanese Restaurant.]] |
| 60 | --> "I am vengeance. I am the night. I am ... Batman." |
| 61 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/good-things-come-in-small-dosages/74781/ Good to know it's never too early to instill manners and chivalry in a person.]] |
| 62 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/courage-under-hire/74834/ This employee]] foils an attempted robbery with PolitenessJudo without even realizing what was happening. |
| 63 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/boss-like-a-boss/75027/ A pair of elderly ladies]] subtly insult the gay submitter with a book on how homosexuality is an abomination. When the manager catches wind of this, he stands up for his employee and shows the ladies the door. |
| 64 | -->"If you cannot handle him as a gay man, then you do not deserve him as a straight man!" |
| 65 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/out-bat-ter-angels/75077/ A police officer, dressed as Batman,]] apprehends an unruly volunteer dressed as Spiderman without breaking character. |
| 66 | -->“When crazy Spiderman went crazy and Batman took off his costume and he was an actually real hero and made crazy Spiderman go away!” |
| 67 | * The little girl in [[http://notalwaysright.com/blowing-things-out-and-up-of-proportion/23416 this story]] gets one for calling out her nutjob father. |
| 68 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/taking-the-big-out-of-bigotry/24364 This girl]] calls out a bigoted old woman while smiling the entire time. |
| 69 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-the-sharpest-bigot/75455/ A racist customer]] drags the submitter into her manager's office, and proceeds to threaten with a swiss-army knife. The manager draws her own knife, scaring him into obedience. |
| 70 | --> "That's one. I'm carrying nine. Let him go." |
| 71 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/she-has-a-real-problem/75466/ A customer insults a bagger with a mental disability.]] The cashier, who's witnessed the whole exchange, only has this to say to her: |
| 72 | --> '''Cashier:''' “Refusal of service for massive discrimination towards a valued employee, as well as a regular customer. You may leave your items here; we’ll shelve them later. Please leave.” |
| 73 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/he-has-been-governated/32887/ A student jumps queue,]] only to find out that he's done so in front of the Governor. |
| 74 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/fare-the-horde/75425/ This tired and irritated submitter]] forces a bus-rider to pay his fare. |
| 75 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/admitting-defeat-was-an-easy-thing-touche/25319 This bookstore owner showed why he won so many fencing awards.]] |
| 76 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/best-not-to-exchange-with-haters/25658 This manager]] knows how to deal with a person bigoted against gays and lesbians. Bonus points for getting her fellow managers to do the same. |
| 77 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/got-the-fraud-on-the-phoney/25779 This manager]] frightens a fraudster into ''turning himself in''. |
| 78 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/setting-mother-straight/26685 Sometimes,]] it takes real guts for a daughter to [[CallingTheOldManOut stand up to her mother]] when she's being a homophobic bitch. |
| 79 | --> '''Daughter:''' “Can you please just stop? This guy’s been pretty d*** helpful and probably has better taste in men than you!” |
| 80 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-toxic-personalities-become-intoxicated-2/75758/ When this girl]] gets accused by an angry drunk for "stealing her boyfriend", she knocks out the drunk in one punch when the situation escalates. Even the bouncer was impressed! |
| 81 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/preaching-to-the-converted/76241/ This vicar]] comes face-to-face with a HollywoodAtheist, and hams up a spontaneous conversion to piss them off. |
| 82 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/bohemian-medicine/76433 A bunch of patients in a waiting room]] all start singing along to [[Music/{{Queen}} "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] |
| 83 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-karate-kid-christmas-special/75888/ This nine-year-old karate student]] floors an adult who's threatening him over a toy. |
| 84 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/they-make-a-mockery-of-muggery/76644/ Two unruly customers]] get scared off when a customer recognizes them. The reason? |
| 85 | --> '''Customer:''' [[MuggingTheMonster “They tried to mug me about two hours ago.”]] |
| 86 | * The woman in [[http://notalwaysright.com/needs-to-press-paws/76697 this story]] saves a worker from harm, but the kicker is that she just goes on with her day like it was nothing. Perhaps the only sad part is that the worker never got to thank her for it. |
| 87 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/speaking-american-is-a-country-diction-in-terms/77146 Sales representative vs. racist caller.]] |
| 88 | --> "Why don't you get a dictionary, and look it up? While you're at it, look up 'inbred' and 'bigot', and call back when you figure out why I suggested it." |
| 89 | * The submitter [[http://notalwaysright.com/being-the-bigger-man/24298 in this story]]. Two kids are throwing stuff everywhere in the supermarket. The cashier asks them to stop, but the kids' parents [[HitlerAteSugar accuse her of being a Fascist for ordering them]] and threaten violence on her. The submitter, a six-foot-tall guy who has injuries on his face from a sports match earlier, takes one of the cans the kids have thrown and tells the father that it caused his injuries and asks if he'd rather deal with him personally or talk to the police. The terrified father is forced by the submitter to apologize to both him and the cashier for his kids' behavior. |
| 90 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/should-have-stayed-clear-of-the-bottle/77028 This woman]] manages to completely turn the tables on a robber. |
| 91 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/hey-mr-dj-put-my-record-on/77021 This DJ]] gets a request for a song, but has to delay playing it until they can find the right opportunity to do so. The requesting customer isn't having any of it, gets aggressive, and has to be hauled off by security. Just as she's getting pulled away, the DJ puts on her requested song as a parting gift. |
| 92 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/on-the-need-for-hazard-pay-part-6/77399 Patient slaps a pregnant clerk.]] Turns out the clerk is married to a security guard, who [[PapaWolf makes it clear]] what will happen to the patient if there is even the slightest harm to the clerk or the baby because of what he did. |
| 93 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/how-to-deflate-the-bag/77469 A vandal gets out-trolled.]] |
| 94 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/karkat-thor-and-loki-walk-into-a-bar/77500 The day]] [[{{Webcomic/Homestuck}} Karkat]], [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], and [[Film/{{Thor}} Loki]] defended the honor of [[VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw Juliet]] from two sexist pigs. |
| 95 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/why-nurses-should-rule-the-world-part-5/77506 When an insecure father threatens a sickly girl,]] her mother, who's head nurse, [[MamaBear has none of it and gets him kicked out of the hospital.]] |
| 96 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/there-is-a-meth-to-his-madness/97436 Well, I guess that's one way to report a guy on drugs.]] |
| 97 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-real-woman-versus-half-a-man/77619 “No, I’m all woman, but a woman willing to kick your a** if you don’t apologize to this girl.”]] |
| 98 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/cpr-criminally-poor-reaction/77753 It's always nice when you do your job and potentially save someone's life]] AND smack down the idiots both at the same time. |
| 99 | * “If you want to speak Mexican, go back to Mexico. In America, we speak English.” [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-first-and-true-language-of-america/66426 “Sir, I was speaking Navajo. If you want to speak English, go back to England.”]] Burn. |
| 100 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-hole-in-one/77903 A stupid golfer gets a burn so hot that it rivals the sun itself.]] |
| 101 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/stress-about-the-dress/18867 This manager]] ''will not'' stand for people who insult her overweight customers. |
| 102 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/her-chances-of-a-place-are-spoiled/78027 Kudos go to this daycare owner]] for dealing with an irate customer insulting her employee. |
| 103 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/punch-drunk-and-love/77512 This poor sap]] [[ChewToy gets to be on the wrong end of two in succession.]] Here's a summary: Drunk guy hits on girl at bar. Girl says she's already married. Drunk guy says he could probably beat up her man. Girl doesn't deny that possibility, and since the guy is there, drunk guy tries to pick a fight. Guy tells drunk guy that he should probably leave "before he gets hurt", then clarifies [[ExactWords that he never said]] ''he'd'' hurt him, [[ActionGirlfriend as the girl floors the drunk with one punch.]] Drunk guy asks bartender to have girl and her husband thrown out. Bartender refuses. [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Drunk guy claims to be the owner's brother.]] Bartender turns to girl and says [[ConfrontingYourImposter "Huh. I didn't know we had a brother."]] Then the bartender/owner bans the drunk guy for life and the bouncer, ''her'' husband, throws him out. |
| 104 | * Occasionally, you find a witty comeback to being told to "go to Hell" or the like: |
| 105 | ** "[[http://notalwaysright.com/hellish-customers/78137 Luffasir?]] [[GrammarCorrectionGag It's Lucifer,]] and I don't need any more morons worshiping me. Now get the hell out of here." |
| 106 | ** "[[https://notalwaysright.com/showing-devilish-customers-how-its-done/78428/ I went there once.]] [[BadassBoast Now I RULE it.]] Now GET OUT OF OUR STORE." |
| 107 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/just-a-cast-the-first-stones-throw-away-from-a-true-christian/79558 "Well, if I’m going to Hell]], I don’t believe there’s much hope for any of us now, is there?" |
| 108 | * This [[http://notalwaysright.com/grand-theft-innocence-part-6/78141 nosy woman]] gets owned, hard. |
| 109 | -->'''Woman''': You’re a little old to be playing ''Pokémon'', aren’t you? |
| 110 | -->'''Guy''': And your son's a little young to be playing ''Grand Theft Auto'', isn’t he? |
| 111 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/taking-account-of-your-actions-2/78198/ A bank manager gives a recurring problem customer]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard exactly what he asks for.]] |
| 112 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/retired-extremely-dangerous-part-2/78350 This old guy]] gives a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a young man who disrespects retired people. |
| 113 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/feeding-the-baby-and-the-trolls/78431 Two idiots with an an inexplicable hatred of breastfeeding]] learn that those Renaissance fair swords [[CoolSword are real.]] For bonus points, the guard never broke character. |
| 114 | * An ex-colonel from the British army teaches [[http://notalwaysright.com/that-kind-of-behavior-is-just-not-cricket-part-2/78495 this scammer]] a lesson. |
| 115 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/putting-the-situation-on-to-a-knife-edge/78682 This customer]] stops a robbery with [[WeaponForIntimidation a fake knife!]] Albeit after realizing the robber's weapon was also fake. |
| 116 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/no-thick-crust-for-crusty-old-bigots/78830 This worker using a racist customer's own logic against him.]] |
| 117 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/pregnancy-test-versus-gods-test/79074 This teen]] tells off a virulent religious bigot for making assumptions and also being blatantly hypocritical. |
| 118 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/had-it-up-to-their-neck-with-bad-customers/79416 This cashier]] gets shouted at by a rude customer who's trying to rush for an interview. [[LaserGuidedKarma Turns out the submitter's father is doing the interviewing.]] |
| 119 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/low-on-the-milk-of-human-kindness/79430 When someone warns you that they know judo, listen to them.]] |
| 120 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/judge-a-sandwich-on-its-filling/76326 This well-off teenager]], despite her appearance, is quite generous with her money, using it to help others. |
| 121 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/their-service-is-undead/79460 This conversation]] takes a turn for the surreal when the undead are brought up, but it's all helped by every party being good sports about it. |
| 122 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/getting-owned-by-the-owner-part-6/79471 When the owner's addressing a customer's complaints,]] she hears people shouting to stop a snatch thief. Without hesitating, she smacks the snatch thief in the face with her tray and then goes back to business like normal. |
| 123 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/driven-over-the-edge/79511 "That’s assault]], attempted assault, we’ll slap in attempted vehicular manslaughter if you open your mouth again, and on top of that driving while intoxicated. Thank you, ladies. Have a nice day!" |
| 124 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/dethroning-assumptions/79549 "Khaleesi!"]] |
| 125 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-have-a-good-feeling-about-this/18666 Two young men decide to have a lightsaber fight,]] but have the courtesy to give the cashier prior warning. A lot of fun was had and nobody was hurt. |
| 126 | -->"Best. Store. Ever." |
| 127 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/love-a-jedi-shall-know/71685 "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"]] The ending is a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. |
| 128 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/hes-just-been-kod/79564 This guy]] stops a kid from getting ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' and informs a mother about the ESRB rating system. When the mother then says that adult video gamers are idiots and asks who'd play them, the staff inform her that they do, as does the narrator, and plenty of people who come to the store. |
| 129 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/counting-and-discounting/79681 This kid,]] who's about seven or eight, is able to understand percentages better than a fully-grown man. He and his mother receive a well-earned discount in response. |
| 130 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/mail-order-disorder-3/79679/ Who knew mail ladies could be awesome?]] |
| 131 | -->'''Mail Lady''': "Ma'am. Shut your d*** mouth and leave the poor guy alone! He didn't do anything wrong, and he's already CLEARLY waiting! If you don't stop, I won't give you your mail! You're just a rude old bat, aren't you?!" |
| 132 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/crouching-tiger-hidden-powers/75934 This Chinese ice cream vendor,]] having witnessed a Chinese kid get mocked and bullied, struck a deal with that kid to let him have his moments. |
| 133 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/our-great-discrimination-part-3/80284 This guy]] gives a spectacular TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a bigot who accuses him of trying to blow up the store. |
| 134 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/employee-of-the-year-part-2/69705 This fast food worker]], an English expatriate living in New Zealand. Upon working drive-thru for the first day, their first customer is someone who grew up down the road from them. |
| 135 | * A customer jumps in front of the line. [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-line-and-out-of-line-part-6/80682 This father]] shames her via PolitenessJudo. |
| 136 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/if-only-she-could-hear-herself-3/80707 Here]], a lady suffering from a major case of SmallNameBigEgo tries to get a waitress fired because she was wearing hearing aids (which the lady claims are headphones). The manager gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and asks her to leave the restaurant, and then her husband also tells her off. After the lady leaves, the rest of the table ''(9 people)'' all give the waitress huge tips. |
| 137 | ** The husband deserves credit for not falling into the AcquiredSituationalNarcissism that his wife obviously had -- the couple was rich because he'd won the lottery. |
| 138 | * "[[http://notalwaysright.com/its-about-to-get-crazy-horse-up-in-here/77034 In my tribe]], I am called ‘Ejects-Bigoted-A**-hole-From-Premises’. Now kindly get the f*** out." |
| 139 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/fixing-for-a-fixing/81048 A little girl]] kicks a homophobic jerk in the shins repeatedly. He grabs her, then tries to get her arrested for "assaulting" him, and promptly gets arrested for assaulting her. Several customers offer to buy the kid candy. [[WrenchWench She wants to buy a 50-piece toolset instead.]] |
| 140 | * A customer yells at [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-threat-of-a-disconnect/78937 this operator]] because his cable TV has been turned off and he can't see a football match with his friends. Not only does she stay calm the entire time and not only does she shoot down all of his "arguments" on why she should turn his cable back on even though he's refusing to pay any of his outstanding fees, but she flat-out trolls him first by telling him that since he hasn't been paying his phone bills either, she'll have to suspend his phone service as well "to make sure he doesn't incur any further fees", making it that much harder for him to call back and yell at them and that ''she's'' going to watch the match in question. |
| 141 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/providing-a-self-service-service/81797 This customer]] notices an old man struggling with the self-checkout and decides that'd be a good time to teach her daughter how to use it, giving the stranger a full walkthrough in the process. |
| 142 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-mother-of-all-refunder-blunders/82885 It may have taken the submitter an hour]] to lecture his mother about why she was in the wrong, but when she finally had her HeelRealization, it was worth it. For bonus points, the only reason the submitter didn't hook up with the clerk is that he's GenreSavvy enough to know that she would not get along with the mother-in-law. |
| 143 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/we-wish-jew-a-merry-christmas/83559 When an anti-Semitic woman spits on a bagger]] after learning he's Jewish and starts saying racist things to him, the manager calls her out on her actions, pointing out if it wasn't for him and other Jewish workers, their Christian coworkers wouldn't get to spend Christmas Eve with their families and tells her to leave. When she refuses to leave and tries to face another customer who calls her actions un-Christian like, she gets an OhCrap when she learns the other customer is her pastor! The pastor not only tells her apologize to the bagger and leave, but he expects to see her in church in the front row for bad behavior on Christmas Day! Then the cashier she spit on calls her out on not knowing the difference between Christmas and Easter for good measure. |
| 144 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/heroic-rescue-required-aisle-three/84765/ A thief punches out a cashier]] and steals from the register, [[LaserGuidedKarma only for another customer to punch him out on the way out.]] Said customer proceeds to ask if he can finish his shopping before having to testify, like stopping a robbery was just a minor inconvenience. |
| 145 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/our-great-discrimination-part-4-2/84792/ An Islamophobic asshole]] is dragged out kicking and screaming after insulting and assaulting a Muslim customer. |
| 146 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/catcher-in-the-sky/70513 "Catcher in the Sky."]] One for the ill-informed customer for a change, because he managed to catch a wild bird ''with his bare hands''. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. |
| 147 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/let-that-entitlement-slide-into-the-bus-lane/85680 "Let That Entitlement Slide Into The Bus Lane."]] An awesome manager remains verbally polite with a customer but delivers a metaphorical "Up yours!" by tearing apart the customer's ridiculous complaint before her very eyes. His response against any potential fallout? WorthIt! |
| 148 | * Don't try threatening the Taliban on [[https://notalwaysright.com/her-number-has-been-talibanned/78081/ these guys.]] |
| 149 | -->'''Manager:''' “Ma’am, I am from Iran. I watched the Taliban kill my two sons because they wouldn’t join. You want me to issue a credit after making that kind of a threat? No. I’ve flagged your account. You will receive no further credits. Pay your bill through the automated system before the fifteenth to avoid a late fee, which also will not be credited. Goodbye.” |
| 150 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-cant-stop-the-music/77655/ One day]], a very rude customer accuses a 12-year-old of not needing the money he’s trying to earn for his low-income family by playing music in front of a store, [[KickTheDog then takes his violin and smashes it on the ground]]. He then proceeds to [[CurbstompBattle beat up]] an employee and another customer trying to defuse the situation. The kid ends his reign of terror by taking the broken violin neck and [[GroinAttack hitting him in the crotch with it]]. The pain subdues the asshole long enough for the police to show up and arrest him for assault, and the kid gets a new violin with the fine the guy's forced to pay. |
| 151 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/smoking-with-a-gun/76280/ Damn, you've got balls of steel!]] |
| 152 | * If there ever were a CoolOldGuy, [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-the-kind-of-fall-into-my-arms-story-were-used-to/116562/ this guy]] (who helps a mother who has a seizure in the check out line get medical attention and shrugs off the broken wrist that he gets while doing so) would be it. |
| 153 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-adventures-of-man-bear/116844/ Never disrespect the elderly]] or Man-Bear will kick you out. |
| 154 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/your-car-is-on-the-highway-to-hell/144991/ This guy]] found out why it was a bad idea to insult the mechanic doing an oil change on his car, courtesy of [[BenevolentBoss the shop owner.]] |
| 155 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-mother-so-bad-you-cant-make-her-up/172917/ The groom in this story]] managing to combine TranquilFury with a BigShutUp after his Momzilla mother caused havoc right before his wedding by basically destroying the submitter's professional makeup case in an attempt to "correct" her work. |
| 156 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/f-awesome/178153/ This Australian manager]] implements a policy that allows his workers to outright ban and tell an especially unruly customer to "Fuck off!" once a year each. |
| 157 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/protect-the-dog-and-everyone-will-protect-you/159287/ A woman]] attempts to steal a hearing-impaired person's service dog at a grocery store, hurting it in the process. The hearing-impaired person responds by punching her in the stomach and face to protect their dog, just in time for the police to show up and arrest the woman for assault and attempted dog theft. And then the hearing-impaired person presses charges against the woman and easily wins the case due to all the witnesses and the security cam footage in the store; the woman winds up in jail and is forced to pay a huge fine to the hearing-impaired person. |
| 158 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/biker-guy-starts-a-vicious-cycle/178939/ Scrawny and timid retail worker VS. A gigantic and hot-tempered biker dude]]. Scrawny and timid retail worker ''wins''! |
| 159 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-twilight-of-our-literacy-part-3/ A pair of teens]] managed to hide every copy of the ''Twilight'' series in a bookstore in its ceiling. While the OP had to report them to the manager, the manager rewarded them with gift cards. |
| 160 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-gangster-the-pizza-and-the-baby/223848/ The Pizza Avengers]]. A pizza parlor received a call from a sobbing young mother whose boyfriend had taken their last 20 dollars and her car in order to pick up the pizza order, even though the ''two-week-old baby'' was almost out of formula. The pizzeria staff rose to the challenge. The driver hurried to the closest store to buy formula and other necessities. When the boyfriend arrived, the pizzeria took his money, blacklisted him from the place and chased him out with a threat of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and CurbStompBattle (via DeathGlare, and one of their chefs had her knife in hand). The driver arrived at her house, bringing the pizza, the baby's things, some containers of pasta enough for a few days that the chef threw in, and a note from their boss potentially offering the young mother a job if she decided to dump the boyfriend. He found out that her family has pulled an awesome moment of their own: having finally had enough of her abuser, she called her well-to-do parents, who her boyfriend had forced her to cut contacts with. Her father and brother immediately raced over and packed the boyfriend' stuff into bags. The young mother burst into tears when the driver gave her the food and the baby's things, upon which her father pressed the driver to take (more than enough) money for what he bought. The family became regular customers of the pizzeria and tipped handsomely even though the submitter is in Australia which doesn't have a tipping culture, and the mother and child seemed to thrive without "Mr. Gangster". |
| 161 | * While seating tables at a hotel restaurant, [[https://notalwaysright.com/revenge-is-sweet-even-when-its-an-accident/240720/ a guest slaps the hostess on the behind]], and she reflexively hits him in the throat with her clipboard, edge first. Everybody in the restaurant says he deserved it, [[KarmicNod including the guest himself]], who tips her a hundred bucks as apology. |
| 162 | * A man makes a big show of being generous and kind to a restaurant's staff to impress a date, [[https://notalwaysright.com/set-that-red-flag-on-fire/247139/ spending almost $300 on food and giving a $100 tip]]... However, once his date is out of earshot, he tells his server, the submitter, to mark the tip down to $20, admitting he was "just playing it up", and becoming angry when they ask him to repeat what he'd said. More concerned with the customer manipulating his date than the money, the submitter catches him and the date outside, revealing his deception under the guise of needing him to sign the new receipt with the $20 tip for bookkeeping purposes. The customer ''does'' sign the receipt, meaning the promised hundred dollar tip is not received, but his date at least sees some of his true colors. |
| 163 | * When a breastfeeding mother in a café is [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-adventures-of-boob-erman/254472/ harassed]] by a sleazy guy who wants "a taste", a nearby waiter lifts his own top and tells him to "have a suckle on this! Otherwise, you can f*** off like the creepy little saddo you are!" The sleazeball blushes and storms out. The mother gives him a huge tip and later puts in a word for him with his manager; the waiter subsequently gets a promotion -- and his own superhero nickname, "Boob-erMan". |
| 164 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-sweet-sister-saves-the-day/255996/ This sister]] is one of the most noble women in NAR history. As OP reveals, she is a sweet woman who never curses or raises her voice. However, she also doesn't like when anyone gets picked on. And that is shown when a man in front of her in line begins harassing a cashier with Down Syndrome. She, again, [[TranquilFury without cursing or raising her voice]], [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech dresses the man down and shames him in front of everyone]], causing him to leave the store with his tail between his legs. |
| 165 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/her-filter-melted-in-the-heat/266554/ This old woman]] tells off another female customer off for spraying her sweat all over the store during a heatwave. When the customer insults the old woman by saying God wasted a good opportunity to not kill her off with the heatwave, the old woman responds in kind. |
| 166 | --> ''"God wasted a good a**hole when he put teeth in your mouth!"'' |
| 167 | * A [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-mess-with-manager-pinkboots/275586/ cranky customer]] reduces a 17-year-old cashier to tears by laying into her over something scanning incorrectly. The new [[BenevolentBoss assistant manager]], whom the cashier has never even met before now, proceeds to [[TranquilFury loudly but calmly]] deliver a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him, finally telling him to [[GetOut leave]] until he could behave like a human being, before giving the cashier a hug and a break. She subsequently continues to go to bat for the store's employees, until they barely get any more bad customers. |
| 168 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/if-you-want-to-know-who-to-blame-look-in-the-mirrorglaze/285727/ Another story]] about an ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife reducing a teenage employee to tears, but this time [[TheDogBitesBack it's the employee herself]] who ends up doling out justice. The woman was buying a large quantity of gelatine to glaze her cakes for a school bake sale, but the girl, knowing that she advertises her cakes as being vegan (she attends the same school as the woman's daughter, who is the local AlphaBitch and gets away with everything she does due to her mother bullying the principal) and that the brand she's buying is collagen-based, asks if she's baking for vegetarians. The woman proceeds to explode at her, call her an incompetent child, etc., before storming off to find someone else to get her gelatine for her. However, the girl later reveals the truth about the cakes on the school's Facebook page, bringing a wave of outrage from the woman's vegan customers. The woman tries to get her expelled -- and later fired -- over this, even making a complaint to corporate, but since she hasn't broken any school rules and the store wasn't involved, her efforts at retribution come to nothing. |
| 169 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-can-candy-crush-his-little-heart-not-me/290088/ This mother]] attempts to throw the OP under the bus by blaming them for her son not being allowed to eat any candy. OP promptly flips the script by giving the kid permission to get candy, even paying for it themselves, which then forces the mother to be an even bigger bad guy in the kid's eye by having to take the candy OP gave them. OP points out that it's her own fault for dragging them into parenting her kid. |
| 170 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/oh-my-goddess-it-actually-worked/290545/ This bookstore]] was harassed by proselyte preachers, and corporate prevented the workers to ban them. One new employee, described by the submitter as a geek, then shows up wearing robes, a mask, carrying pamphlets about the tenets of various fictional religions (from various EasternRPG video games), and starts proselyting the various preachers. Once they get the hint and try to go when the guy isn't working, another employee replaces him with the stack of pamphlets and her own disguise. The story concludes by stating there were no preacher's visit for the last five months, but the bag of faux-religious pamphlets is still "sitting behind the front desk, just in case". |
| 171 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/daddy-issues-save-the-day/286463/ This waitress]], when one of the other waitresses gets harassed by a group of sleazy men, proceeds show the men just how gross they are being without having to outright say it. Namely, by noting that her dad has the same name as the ringleader of the men (he doesn't, but he didn't need to know that) and then by revealing that she's the same age as the ringleader's daughters (again, she's not, but she's only a few years older). |
| 172 | --> As soon as this sleazy a**hole realized that I was the same age as at least one of his daughters and our dads had the same name, he was suddenly well-behaved, and so were his friends. |
| 173 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/one-word-leave/298721/ This manager]] proves able to stand up to an entitled customer who was trying to make a fuss over nothing, but also the regional manager who came in to tell him off, simply by giving one word answers and not giving in to their demands. |
| 174 | * The entire "[[https://notalwaysright.com/tag/managers-with-a-spine/ Managers With a Spine]]" tag for the bosses and managers who stand up to overly-entitled customers and often do so in style. |
| 175 | ** The submitter in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-night-tipped-into-your-favor/311915/ this story]] has dealt with a small crowd of drunk jerks who didn't leave a tip. After closing, a man asked about them and if they tipped. Upon hearing they didn't, the man revealed himself to be their boss and wrote a check for a 200% tip ''to be taken out of their paychecks'' for being rude. The group learned their lesson and tipped on their next visit. |
| 176 | ** Doubling as a Funny moment, [[https://notalwaysright.com/signs-of-influence-part-2/309946/ one manager]] decides to put up some creative signs to deal with many of a NeverHeardThatOneBefore situation with the example being the classic, "If it doesn't scan, it must be free." The cashier simply points to the sign. |
| 177 | --->'''Sign:''' "In this store, ‘It must be free’ is a request for ritualistic combat to the death." |
| 178 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/that-managers-response-was-pure-platinum/320265/ This manager]] has to deal with an entitled "platinum member" guest, who repeatedly goes out of his way to harass the staff (even at one point bullying a first-day employee into quitting and being happy about it) and gets away with it since Corporate would rather retain his business. He demands to be upgraded to the Presidential Suite for free, implicitly threatening the manager's job on being denied due to hotel policy dictating that upgrades are assigned on check-in and based on availability. After hanging up, the manager then proceeds to give a complementary upgrade to the Presidential Suite to a family of six that checks in and leaves instructions for the submitter to do the same to make sure that every single premium room is filled. As a result, the entitled guest is forced to settle with the regular room he checked in with and the hotel manager decides not to punish the lesser manager and gives him a raise for all the positive reviews from the upgraded guests. The hotel then repeats this every time the problem guest is scheduled to stay with them until the problem guest finally stops booking with them. |
| 179 | * One for the customers [[https://notalwaysright.com/were-totally-in-line-with-this-petty-revenge/324374/ in this story]] as they're all ahead of a particular Irate Customer who is complaining that the first person in line is paying with cash. After that outburst, everyone else in line puts their cards away and gets ready to pay with cash instead. The cherry on top is the man in front of the Irate Customer who opts to pay with a personal check! The Irate Customer [[RageQuit promptly storms out of the store]] while passing by the original cash payer who had stuck around to enjoy the show, and the man who had been in front of him taps his debit card on the reader and goes on his way. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder: Not Always Romantic]] |
| 183 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/good-grief/41421/ A literal knight in shining armor]] jumps in to even the odds in an online skirmish. |
| 184 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-heathen-is-for-life-not-just-for-christmas/23721 A bigoted customer calls the non-Christian submitter a heathen,]] and threatens to expose her homosexuality to the staff. A female coworker overhears this, and flirts with the submitter to shut the customer up. |
| 185 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-true-meaning-of-seeing-clearly/39957 Being blind isn't always a bad thing.]] |
| 186 | -->'''Blind guy:''' I can pay more attention to appreciating people for who they are, instead of judging by beauty. Dating is not a beauty contest. |
| 187 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-good-service-for-those-in-service/21998 A female soldier]] vs. a customer who thought that women couldn't fight in battles. |
| 188 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/punch-drunk-love/40903/ An abusive boyfriend punches his girlfriend.]] She retaliates with a punch right in the face. |
| 189 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/girls-night-shout/22742 And here's how you handle a misogynist.]] |
| 190 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/putting-the-knee-into-a-jerk/22897 This girl]] hurts a guy who refuses to leave her alone — by accident! |
| 191 | * A man, who owns a bookstore, has a female friend with a knee injury being harassed by a jackass customer. [[http://notalwaysright.com/brace-yourself/41572 He calmly intervenes.]] |
| 192 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/cupids-arrow-doesnt-always-fly-straight/42392 A couple who work at separate stores]] and get hit on by customers [[TheMatchmaker set the customers up with each other]]. |
| 193 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-idiot-hasnt-got-a-leg-to-stand-on/24327 A girl]] defends her Marine boyfriend who lost his leg against a rude, sexist, entitled bastard. |
| 194 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/true-love-has-no-hidden-a-genders/27092 A young woman defends]] her transgender friend from two bigoted assholes who wanted to score with her. Enraged, one of the college boys throws his drink at another customer by accident, who also happens to be transgender, and to put it simply, he's ''pissed off''. |
| 195 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/love-is-in-the-cards/20660 That's some magic trick.]] |
| 196 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/attack-of-the-nerds/43008 A large man tries to pick a fight with a geek]] in order to prove to the geek's hot girlfriend that he's better than him. However, when the man shoves the girlfriend into a bookshelf, [[BewareTheNiceOnes the geek proceeds to kick the guy's ass]], leaving him unconscious with a broken arm while the geek himself only got a welt on his face! |
| 197 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/rudolph-the-red-sabered-reindeer/43562 "What's going on in the woods over there? Oh, it's just a lightsaber duel..."]] |
| 198 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/theyre-so-dream-a-dreamy/43682 They're So Dream A Dreamy.]] |
| 199 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/why-is-no-never-good-enough/206558/ A 16-year-old girl]] working in a comic-book store repeatedly refuses the advances of a [[{{Ephebophile}} creepy 46-year-old customer]] who can't seem to take "no" for an answer, until finally [[BenevolentBoss her boss]] tells her she can shoot him down as brutally as she wants without getting in trouble, and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech oh boy, does she ever]]. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder: Not Always Related]] |
| 203 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/mean-girls-the-next-generation/48157/ The submitter's school enemy]] quickly eats her words when she learns a substitute teacher she tries to insult is the submitter's mother. |
| 204 | * What to do when your older sister tries to impose on you? [[https://notalwaysright.com/she-hit-a-nerve-pinch-part-2/49692/ Why]], [[TapOnTheHead knock her out]]! |
| 205 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-borderline-infraction/27435 A grouchy rich German]] wants to own the submitter's father's five-acre plot of land. When he is caught moving the property line stakes farther into their land, the man swears to them in German that the land should be his, not theirs. Unfortunately, the submitter reveals she can speak German and tells the grouch in German to leave their land or she'll call the police, and if he ever trespasses into their land again, she will shoot his ass with a paintball gun. The grouch quickly leaves! |
| 206 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/they-understand-what-you-are-seine/26617 Two lewd Frenchmen]] make obscene comments about the attractive but "stupid Americans"... one of whom lives in Paris. She tells the "inbred sons of syphilitic wh***s" that if they don't stop harassing her baby sister (who ''can't'' understand them), [[FreudianThreat she'll cut off their pathetic excuses for manhood and feed them to the pigeons.]] |
| 207 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/instigating-a-related-incident/27327 This]] story shows what happens when you mess with the son of a tough old man. Especially if he also has [[BigBrotherInstinct an older brother]]. |
| 208 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-go-gentle-on-him/51103 A rude, sexist kid]] learns the hard way what being a true gentleman means. Even more awesome is that [[HeelFaceTurn he actually did try to be a better person after that]]. |
| 209 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/some-relatives-you-never-see-anymore/51990 The "ninja brother"]] embarrasses a bully with his agility and an Old Spice reference. |
| 210 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/wish-he-could-just-sell-him-on-ebay/123258/ This submitter, at age twelve,]] is made of awesome towards their stepfather. The guy steals gold-plated cards from the submitter and sells them on [=eBay=], and the submitter calls them out on it, and then tells them off for threatening a child and dares them to hit them. Several years later, the submitter is living on their own, and tells their mother that they want a birthday gift from their stepfather. They want the stepfather to gift them those gold-plated cards, [[BestServedCold which have gone up dramatically in price since their creation]]. |
| 211 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-scientific-process-to-mayoral-selection/52674 This five-year-old girl]] would make a pretty kick-ass mayor: |
| 212 | -->"I'd make all the boys and girls be scientists. And all the rest be mothers, except for the ones that want to be firemen or firegirls." |
| 213 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/meet-the-germaniac-family/55099/ Meet The Germaniac Family]]. A group of Germans in a [=WW2=] town are about to be attacked by Russians in 4 hours and they've just finished cooking dinner. So... |
| 214 | -->"They... they finished dinner, and then washed, dried, and put away the dishes." |
| 215 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-be-a-drag-just-cause-a-scene/55616/ This guy]] moves in with his kept-secret boyfriend, and decides to say goodbye to his family -- including his homophobic father -- by blasting songs about non-heteronormative ways, kisses his boyfriend, and drives off. The father went catatonic for a while... and when the younger brother came out as transgender a few years later, he did ''the same thing''. |
| 216 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-think-highly-of-your-hobbies/121891/ This kid]] gets mocked by their stepfather and mother for their immature hobby of playing video games and collecting ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cards, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite the stepfather collecting baseball cards]]. Mom says they should get mature hobbies, so, in a perfect example of malicious compliance[[note]]obeying an idiotic request in a fashion that causes the request-giver to regret their request[[/note]], the kid returns the next day with their backpack full of weed, pills, and dirty magazines and says they've taken up 'mature' hobbies, and will raid mom's liquor cabinet if they get bored, too. Mom is stunned into silence, but backs off of letting them play video games. |
| 217 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/she-has-bad-jeans/147872/ This entry]] tells of a young woman who had to deal with a very, VERY entitled, mentally stunted cousin on occasion. One day, years later, her boyfriend proposes to her, but the happy moment is cut short when said entitled cousin goes ranting and raving and throwing a childish tantrum about how she has to be the one to get married first, not the original poster. Obviously, the [=OP=] isn't having any of it and tells her off for being a grade-A bitch. What happens afterward isn't pretty, but good for [=OP=] for refusing to put up with her cousin's bullcrap. |
| 218 | * "[[https://notalwaysright.com/meet-uncle-yikes/240391/ Uncle Yikes]]": A CreepyUncle who has an obsession with tattoos -- to the point of ranting incessantly about them despite the whole family being annoyed with him-- announces that he wants to inspect the [=OP=]'s body for them during a Thanksgiving get-together, when she's on break from a liberal college. The [=OP=]'s mother walks in and hears this. She gets mad, and reveals to the family that she has a small tattoo on her back, and asks WhatWereYouThinking The uncle is asking to examine his niece's body, as if she is a plaything. He tries angrily ranting, and leaves the dad and [=OP=]'s younger brother with bruises when they kick him out of the house. As LaserGuidedKarma goes, everyone cuts ties with him except his mother because of the incident, and his refusal to keep his mouth shut. |
| 219 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-christmas-affair-to-remember/184973/ A Christmas Affair To Remember]]: The homosexual teenager learns just how bigoted his grandmother is about non-heteronormative people during Christmas, where among her first rant about them is that they should get chemical castration. He puts up with the rants for most of dinner for the sake of the family, but the grandmother keeps going and even asks the teenager if he ever 'tried being straight'. The teenager finally snaps and fires back, 'Have you tried not having an affair?' alluding to her repeated cheating in her past. The grandmother is shocked silent, and [[MamaBear the mother]], upon hearing a cousin's reaction to this, later tells everyone in the family that ''anyone'' that thinks the teenager should apologize for what he said, and not the grandmother for what she said, they can get right outta the house and their lives. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder: Not Always Learning]] |
| 223 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/foot-in-mouth-101 A student]] puts the lid on a bigoted professor when he makes a blatant assumption for the last time. |
| 224 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-power-of-a-kenya-do-attitude/32971/ The security guard in this story]] started teaching himself about electrical equipment because he was tired of his houses burning down from faulty wiring. Not only does he save a tech-inept tech student from himself and fix several other students' busted projects, the last line of the story says that he knew enough to test out of all but the most advanced classes! [[note]]For those that might not get what that means, the guard already knew enough about the subject that only the more advanced classes would have provided him with additional knowledge, and so, after passing tests to prove it, he was excused from needing to take the redundant courses.[[/note]] |
| 225 | ** Not to mention, at first he thought the sound of the exploding light bulb was a ''gun'', and he immediately burst in screaming, "THE [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK WAS THAT]]? [[PapaWolf AIN'T NO ONE SHOOTING UP MY SCHOOL!]]" |
| 226 | ** He also found a replacement light bulb with the correct voltage. He took it from the ceiling. When it was still on. And he barely notices that it's hot. |
| 227 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-test-has-your-name-on-it/33051 This professor of a hard class]] offers a deal to the students -- a bare passing grade for those who choose to leave without taking the test. Most of the class does. The submitter, who has been struggling, doesn't, as they want their grades to reflect their efforts. Once the remaining attendance is confirmed, [[SecretTestOfCharacter the test is revealed, and only asks that the student write their name.]] |
| 228 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/feeling-like-an-atten-dunce/33151 This professor]] is aware of an attendance problem, and rewards those who didn't cut class with a credited but really simple pop quiz. |
| 229 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/she-beat-him-to-the-punch/33206 Grade four bully]] picks fight with grade one schoolgirl. [[IWasBeatenByAGirl Grade one schoolgirl wins.]] |
| 230 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/revenge-is-sweat/33288 A somewhat overweight woman is harassed by a smaller patron when applying for a hour-long exercise program.]] [[{{Determinator}} She gives the exercise her all, finishing the hour, AFTER having just come off a half-hour session of the same exercise]], [[EpicFail while the one that harassed her gives up after 15 minutes]]. |
| 231 | * Two whiny ''Star Wars'' fans vs. Awesome female ''Star Wars'' fan. [[http://notalwaysright.com/they-are-but-learners-among-masters/33347 Guess who wins?]] |
| 232 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/methodist-and-the-madness/33530/ This classroom]] [[IAmSpartacus stands up]] to their bigoted Bible teacher. |
| 233 | ** Similarly, [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-victory-in-tragedy/33740 these students]] stand up to a teacher who won't let them get counseling for a student's death. |
| 234 | * The site has no shortage of stories involving awesome parents. |
| 235 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/she-has-a-mother-thing-coming-part-2/33553 This mother]] goes into MamaBear mode after learning that her son was being abused by his racist teacher. During the Civil Rights Movement! |
| 236 | ---> '''My Mom:''' "You!" *walks closer to teacher* "Don't you EVER lay a finger on my boy! If you have anything to say, you talk to me. I better not hear from him that you hurt him, because I'll skin your a**! Got it?" |
| 237 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/no-pain-no-gain/33698 This mother lays into a negligent nurse]] who ignored the diagnosis of a broken finger because the submitter "wasn't in enough pain". The best part is that the mother had no medical training but had better common sense than the trained nurse. |
| 238 | ---> "I never thought I'd say this, but lady, I am suing your a**." |
| 239 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/anger-management-versus-desk-management/33746 An impatient teacher attempts to beat the student,]] only for her mother to walk in at the right moment. |
| 240 | ---> "EXCUSE ME! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY DAUGHTER?!" |
| 241 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/making-the-teacher-get-the-picture/33974 This mother]] asserts her familial bond to clarify a mix-up. This also leads to other members of the class speaking up about the teacher making the same mistake for them. |
| 242 | ---> '''Mum:''' “Furthermore, you have made my daughter cry over YOUR mistake. I’m angry, [[PapaWolf but pray her father doesn’t hear about this.]]” |
| 243 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/bad-con-duct/34073 This mother]] is rightfully ''furious'' when she learns of her son's disproportionate punishment. |
| 244 | ---> "If you EVER touch my son again, I will crush your windpipe so fast you won't even REGISTER why you can’t breathe!" |
| 245 | ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/flipping-out-over-the-desk/35044 A teacher crazy over organization]] punishes a student by flipping their desk for the infraction of being slightly disorganized. When another student tries to console them that the punishment was unjust, the teacher asserts her position, but unknowingly [[RightBehindMe within earshot of the submitter's mother.]] The mother [[TranquilFury calmly strides into the classroom, identifies the teacher's desk, and empties it onto the ground, commanding that teacher to clean up,]] while the entire class and higher staff bears witness to the whole thing. |
| 246 | ** A double dose in one case of a student with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome. [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-opposite-of-closeted-behavior/35198 The staff don't know how to deal with her, so they stick her in a closet]]. Not only is the student's mother livid and continually calling the school principal over it, but when ''another parent'' learns what the staff are doing with this student, she not only chews out the staff, she pulls her kids out of the school and convinces ''two dozen'' other parents to do the same! |
| 247 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/witness-versus-witless/33692 This bully starts a fight]] and tries to pin the blame of the fight on the submitter, who stood up for her victim. In an aversion of the typical school's zero-tolerance policy to violence from all parties, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure the vice principal suspends the bully and lets the submitter off with a short essay.]] |
| 248 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/the-principals-of-bullying/33713 This principal]] does ''not'' stand for bullying. After hearing that a student was savagely beaten by one, he calls the bully into his office, and after an extended period of time ([[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome the submitter still doesn't know what happened inside]]) persuades the bully to apologize and promise to never bother the student again! He really looks after his school. |
| 249 | * A minor example, but [[http://notalwaysright.com/basic-chemistry-meets-advanced-physics/33665 this chemistry teacher]] crossed his ''very'' large lab in about a ''second'' because he heard a student scream and thought they were hurt. Impressive ''and'' dedicated to his students' safety! |
| 250 | * "I'm a man, and I demand to be treated like one!" [[http://notalwaysright.com/misogyny-is-a-lie-ability/33831 "Start acting like one."]] Owned. |
| 251 | * The student in [[http://notalwaysright.com/being-very-candid-with-her-camera/33956 this story]] is on a field trip to Auschwitz, where taking selfies is disrespectful. When they hear of two classmates doing so, they snatch away the camera and slap both classmates in one fell swoop. |
| 252 | -->'''Teacher:''' [[IllPretendIDidntHearThat “I saw nothing. But let’s leave it at one ‘nothing’, shall we?”]] |
| 253 | * The teacher in [[http://notalwaysright.com/has-to-pull-up-her-sleeves-for-this-one/34099 this one]] addresses the effects of bullying using ''herself'' as an example. It takes a lot of guts to revisit a history of self-harm (and ''attempted suicide'') to drive home that bullying can have grave consequences. |
| 254 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/arabian-plights/34005 These teachers]] tell off Islamophobic parents who don't want their students to learn about "Islamic culture". Made better by the fact that this was just past 9/11. |
| 255 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-new-reformation-appreciation/34244 This teacher's]] ingenious plan of teaching his students about the Reformation and getting donations. |
| 256 | * A student complains about "gays talking about gay stuff". [[http://notalwaysright.com/dont-ask-dont-tell-just-got-told/34209 This teacher]] agrees... and forces the student to stop "talking about straight stuff", I.E. shutting him up. |
| 257 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-good-standing-if-not-good-ruling/34338 This professor's casual attitude]] leaves some very good first impressions, and his class learns better with him with that rapport. |
| 258 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/shes-hot-iron/34439 "You can call now me 'Lady of Flames'."]] Yes ma'am! Her nickname at that time? IronLady. |
| 259 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/for-mature-players-only/34435 This student]] takes the mature response to theft... threatening to press charges for grand larceny, since the stolen items included over $2000 worth of rare ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' cards. It works. |
| 260 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/coming-of-age-and-going-of-class/34544 This student]] cleverly gets his teacher to cancel the lesson. |
| 261 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/those-who-dare-teach/34570 "I heard you whacked [Student] today! Obviously, you shouldn't do that, but that's brilliant! I've been wanting to do that for years!"]] |
| 262 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/can-finally-let-her-hair-down/34595 When this student]] has had enough of a classmate playing with her hair, her teacher calls her name while trying to intervene. The student turns to the teacher and unknowingly whips the classmate in the eye with her braid. |
| 263 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/that-text-book-has-finally-gone-to-his-head/34630 A girl]] tells off a bully by whacking him over the head several times with her textbook (which he took from her). The teacher promptly gives the bully detention. |
| 264 | -->'''Bully''': "But she's the one that hit me! That's not fair!" |
| 265 | -->'''Teacher''': "Yeah, but I've ''never'' seen her do that before. You must have done something to deserve it! So, detention!" |
| 266 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/teaching-knowledge-is-a-laughing-matter/35180 This professor]]. As a student, people called him a nerd... |
| 267 | --> '''Professor:''' But I won. They're all working at [Local Grocery Store Chain], and here I am teaching you guys. I tell a bad joke, 140 people laugh. That's power, right? |
| 268 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/bullying-the-bully-into-submission/35462 This student]] not only calls out a girl who was bullying her, but also a teacher who refused to do anything about it - in front of the school at assembly. Even other teachers thought what she did was impressive, and best of all, the bully didn't bother her again. |
| 269 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/science-has-a-sweet-side/37034 This chemistry teacher]] begins the year by sacrificing some gummy bears to the "lab gods" so no one will get injured that year. The best part? ''It worked''. |
| 270 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-toxic-personalities-become-intoxicated/32882 Just because someone has been extremely patient with you,]] don't think she can't knock your ass out in an instant. |
| 271 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/was-bra-ced-for-a-different-reaction/35572 A girl's]] head of year, male teacher, and headmaster decided she was in the wrong for punching a male classmate after he twanged her bra multiple times and the teacher refused to do anything. They and the male student get their asses verbally handed to them by the girl's mother, who goes on to report the situation to the Board of Governors and OFSTED. |
| 272 | ** You can tell it's going to be good from the very first exchange between the mother and the headmaster. The head sarcastically thanks her for "finally" joining them; she responds by sarcastically apologizing for how busy it gets working in an emergency room, giving an abused child over 40 stitches. |
| 273 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/made-him-sul-furious/38404/ This story]] is just a cascade of awesome. The submitter gets stuck in that one group where only one person (her) ever bothered to do any work. After the umpteenth time this happens (with the teammates [[RefugeInAudacity looking up free condoms on a school computer]] no less), she [[TranquilFury quietly snaps]] and goes to the teacher who agrees to give them the grades they deserve, standing by that decision when they complain. Then, when one of the group members [[DisproportionateRetribution pours sulfuric acid on the submitter's hands]], she proceeds to calmly go over to the sink and run cold water on her hands (helped by the fact that it was diluted for school use but still). Then this exchange happens. |
| 274 | -->'''Submitter:''' *coldly and while giving him an unblinking DeathGlare* Thank you; now I have you on assault. |
| 275 | -->'''Guy:''' *getting uncomfortable because not only did the acid not burn her but also DeathGlare* You don’t have s***. |
| 276 | -->'''Teacher:''' Actually, she has you on either aggravated assault or assault with a deadly weapon with 27 witnesses. Submitter, do you want me to call the police? |
| 277 | ** The police weren't called since the submitter and teacher just wanted to ScareEmStraight, but it worked in spades. |
| 278 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/trying-to-reverse-engineer-bigotry/34409 This class here.]] An old substitute teacher actively refuses to let the only girl in a class even enter the classroom, because [[StayInTheKitchen he thinks it's a boys-only class and that her only purpose in taking it was to impress a future husband]]. [[IAmSpartacus On the second day, the entire rest of the class decides to sit out the class with that girl]] for the entire two weeks that the substitute is there, and when the normal teacher returns, said substitute was forced to retire early by the superintendent and school board. A stand against misogyny indeed! |
| 279 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/granny-get-your-grandsons-guns/32978 A bully belittles an older lady]] working in his school's cafeteria for counting his change too slowly. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of insulting her in front of her grandson, who happens to be the captain of the school's wrestling team. |
| 280 | * Although the narrator admittedly didn't understand what happened until years later, [[https://notalwaysright.com/field-trips-save-childhoods/124237/ their mother realized that the two "weird" classmates were actually domestic abuse victims and reported them to Social Services]], successfully getting them re-homed. |
| 281 | -->''If you’ll allow me to toot my mom’s horn, I’m really proud of her. The first time she saw (the female classmate), she knew, she verified, and she took action.'' |
| 282 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-eat-up-counselors-like-you-for-lunch/129669/ A boy]] hatches a ZanyScheme to blow the whistle on a pair of camp counselors (one of whom is bullying him, the other of whom is enabling the first) to the camp director, and it works! |
| 283 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/thanos-had-one-1-good-idea/195212/ This student]] wore a full suit of motocross armor under his ski clothes - and said armor [[ItMakesSenseInContext had been painted bright gold]]. Unlike his classmates, [[CrazyEnoughToWork he remained completely unscathed.]] |
| 284 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/transitioning-to-a-more-accepting-viewpoint/237867/ The best use ever]] of the YoureJustJealous comeback when a bully picks on a classmate because of the latter's father being a transman. |
| 285 | -->'''Student:''' I think you're just jealous [[NoManOfWomanBorn I can kill Macbeth and you can't]]. |
| 286 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/well-at-least-he-learned-something/236636/ This clever little turd]] successfully steals an upcoming test from his teacher, memorizes it fifty ways to Sunday, aces it, aces it ''again'' when the teacher inevitably suspects him of cheating, and goes on to ace pretty much every test for the rest of the year on his own merit out of fear of being punished. |
| 287 | -->'''Poster:''' I ended [up] walking out of that office feeling like Billy Bada**. |
| 288 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/its-a-dragon-its-a-kangaroo-no-its-a-whole-mess-of-rabbits/188028/ A student]] pranks their teacher with origami. It's as awesome as it sounds. |
| 289 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-is-one-substitute-whos-really-on-the-ball/248921/ This substitute]] claims to not be physically coordinated, and was given a class of difficult kids. One of the bullies aimed a tennis ball towards her saying, "Heads up!" while several students shouted in warning. Instinctively, the teacher caught the ball with her right arm, to the kids' amazement. When asked how she did that, she said, "That’s nothing. I’m actually left-handed.” This made her the CoolTeacher and she was the only one who could control the designated unruly class. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder: Not Always Friendly]] |
| 293 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/they-were-saved/28635 This family manages to save a family involved in a car accident!]] What happens afterward is not quite as epic, however... until the asshole is called out by ''everyone''. |
| 294 | * [[http://notalwaysright.com/should-keep-gossip-on-a-knee-d-to-know-basis/28765 This woman]] puts down a gossiping stranger with an epic comeback line. |
| 295 | * Memorizing a dollar bill's serial number saves [[http://notalwaysright.com/their-thieving-days-are-numbered/28813 this girl]] a lot of heartache. |
| 296 | * Why Salamandastron would make a good name for a mountain home: |
| 297 | --> [[https://notalwaysright.com/getting-into-a-pikkle-with-the-naming/31099/ Eulaliaa!!!]]\ |
| 298 | [[{{Literature/Redwall}} REDWAAAAALL!!!!]] |
| 299 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/daddy-daddy-issues/90343/ This work friend]] is standing up for all the stepdads who get looked down on by their kids solely for the 'crime' of not being their real dad. |
| 300 | * Some transphobic tourist [[https://notalwaysright.com/mahu-do-you-think-you-are/108380/ tries to touch the submitter's transgender twin brother inappropriately?]] He probably wasn't expecting that punch from the submitter. |
| 301 | ** Made heartwarming by the answers the submitter later made in in the comments section. Her twin brother came out as transgender (or ''mahu'', by Native Hawaiian beliefs) when they were thirteen years old and was faced with bullying and transphobia from non-Native Hawaiians. It always was swiftly [[BigSisterInstinct ended by the submitter.]] |
| 302 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/got-milk-and-homophobia/118270/ An impatient homophobe]] harasses an effeminate guy for being too slow at the checkout... and the guy's ManlyGay boyfriend, having returned with milk, [[BewareTheNiceOnes is having none of it]]. He doesn't even have to harm the bigot; said bigot [[OhCrap backs off after the first threat]]. |
| 303 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-emotional-victory/134673/ This story]] is a prime example of the potential RealLife consequences of UnsportsmanlikeGloating. |
| 304 | ** [[HumiliationConga It gets better]]. After being disqualified for his poor sportsmanship after unseating the defending champion, the opponent in the story [[EntitledBastard throws a tantrum over the prize he just forfeited]], which in turn gets him [[PersonaNonGrata kicked out of the building and banned from the tournament for life]]. Then, [[NeverMyFault not willing to accept any responsibility for his actions]], the egomaniac [[FrivolousLawsuit tries to sue the tournament]]. Unfortunately for him, this stunt [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfires big time]] thanks to several witnesses at the tournament who saw what happened. He is laughed out of court and then banned from ''every chess tournament in Ohio''. The former champion's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech parting words]] to the sore winner are the cherry on top. |
| 305 | ---> '''Ex-Champion:''' "If you really were a champion, you'd know that a true champion doesn't humiliate their opponent." |
| 306 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/gossip-wine-fuel-soccer-mom/100400/ This OP]] overhears several 'soccer mums' gossiping about them and their partner. In response, OP loudly answers their questions. |
| 307 | --> Silence. The elderly couple later told us nobody dares to speak a single word about us any more. |
| 308 | * In [[https://notalwaysright.com/its-time-for-them-to-punch-out/142260/ this story]] a psychotic woman who mistakes the submitter for a worker and grabs her by the arm when the submitter tries to point it out. The submitter retaliates by punching the woman square in the nose. The lady immediately accuses her of assault and tells her she will be going to jail, but the submitter's friend (who was with the submitter the whole time) isn't having any of it and delivers this TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the woman (who was later arrested). |
| 309 | --> '''Friend:''' “''No!'' She is not [going to jail]. ''You’re'' the one who grabbed her, because you’re too ''stupid'' to listen when someone says they are not an employee. And those [cameras] will prove it.” |
| 310 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/bending-over-backward-for-busybodies-on-the-bus/141327/ This woman]] decides to tell a teenager with scoliosis to move from their priority seat, on the grounds that [[InsaneTrollLogic they are young, and thus do not need the seat.]] Cue said teenager standing up, banging on their back brace loudly enough for the woman to hear, then turning around and lifting their shirt to reveal part of the back brace, shutting the woman up. |
| 311 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-kindness-chronicles/190762/ This woman]] reaches out to the then-teenaged submitter when they found out that their mother and father were getting divorced, getting food with them and sitting in her car in a parking lot. Come Covid-19, and the 'Car Chronicles' are no longer feasible. What does the woman do? Switch to [=FaceTiming=] and walks instead. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. |
| 312 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-talkative-toddler-saves-the-day/220682/ This toddler]]'s mother is electrocuted and knocked out while toasting a sandwich. [[{{Determinator}} Said toddler proceeds to get out of her high chair, unlock her front door, get out of her gate, reach the submitter's gate, open said gate despite it being out of her reach, and climb up ten steps to reach the submitter's front door to call for help.]] Even better, she was largely pre-verbal and had difficulty keeping her English and Farsi straight but communicated enough for the submitter to realize that "Mama" needed assistance. |
| 313 | * If more Christians were like [[https://notalwaysright.com/standing-strong-in-the-face-of-reckless-hatred/281723/ this teenage girl]], maybe Christianity wouldn't be in the death spiral [[TheFundamentalist the Religious Right]] has caused. This veritable LittleMissBadass stands up to a bunch of homophobic Christofascists protesting a queer-focused event by attempting to goad them into stoning her to death, since she's a victim of child sexual abuse and certain translations of Literature/{{the Bible}} command her to be stoned to death as a "whore", then when they unsurprisingly balk at the idea, calls them out for using the Bible to justify their homophobic beliefs. In short: she uses ''her own trauma'' and the fact she's actually ''read'', rather than simply thumped, the Bible as a means to defend LGBTQ+ people and deconstruct religious homophobia by pointing out that they don't have the same attitudes towards sexual assault victims. |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder: Not Always Hopeless]] |
| 317 | * Pretty much every story in that category qualifies. |
| 318 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/stress-about-the-dress/18867/ Don't make fun of weight issues]] when this guy is around. |
| 319 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/whistle-while-you-work-it-out/250631/ Whistle While You Work It Out]]: This customer service call center rep has a win by virtue of CrazyEnoughToWork. He's trying to help a grandfather customer over the phone who is kind and patient but doesn't even know how to use the Internet; his five-year-old grandson ''does'', however, and in fact, has been using his grandfather's computer since they're not allowed to use the home desktop much. (As OP says, "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Well, I can keep that secret if you can help your grandfather with something.]]" For thirty minutes the kid takes the instructions from the OP to help his grandfather, all the while whistling while he talks due to missing baby teeth. Even better, the kid didn't know words but he knew letters so the OP could spell out instructions and heard the grandson giving instructions to his grandfather as he was typing. The best part was how excited the grandson was to put his tech-savviness to use. |
| 320 | * For the whole site's 10th anniversary, they held a poll to determine ''the'' best entry of the last 10 years. [[https://notalwaysright.com/that-is-pretty-awesome/91002/ This Not Always Hopeless story]] won. EarnYourHappyEnding doesn't even begin to cover it. |
| 321 | ** Most subsequent Roundup Polls exclude Not Always Hopeless stories, because they tend to be so awesome/heartwarming that they ''always win''. |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder: Not Always Healthy]] |
| 325 | * In order to get some answers on why they are being contacted by a collections agency about a bill they'd already paid, when the hospital staff are too busy to answer the phone or meet them in person, [[https://notalwaysright.com/takes-money-clear-bill/100664/ this patient]] calls the voicemail of EVERY EMPLOYEE IN THE SYSTEM to leave a rant, a process they admit took hours. Turns out one of the staff in the hospital had been double-billing patients' insurance to pocket the money, BUT the pile of rants from the submitter alerts the hospital that while the crook was sacked, those patients he'd conned are still being unfairly forced into collections by an automated billing system. |
| 326 | -->'''Manager:''' Good morning, Mrs [Name]. I was just about to call you.\ |
| 327 | '''OP:''' Yeah, I bet you were. |
| 328 | * A doctor, nurse, and family friend help [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-shot-of-humanity/148352/ a patient]] with a crippling fear of needles when her boyfriend can't be with her during surgery by keeping her laughing so much she doesn't have time to cry. |
| 329 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/she-has-to-live-somewhere-else-but-at-least-she-will-be-living/138678/ This girl]] chose to defy her anti-vax mother and get vaccinated as soon as she could legally do so on her own, even though Mom screamed at her all the way to the doctor's office, terrorized the other patients in the waiting room, and disowned her. |
| 330 | * A diabetic customer, her service dog, and a passing nurse [[https://notalwaysright.com/absolutely-the-goodest-boy/269820/ save a woman's life]]. It starts with the dog pawing at the door to the kitchen. The customer is initially embarrassed, but sees the woman's baby bump and so has her step outside so the dog can do a full check. Once the dog alerts, she immediately has an ambulance called, sits the woman down, and enlists a passing nurse to do a blood sugar check. A few days later, the coworker comes back with a monitor and reveals that had she gone home early and had a nap as she initially planned to, it would have probably been fatal. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder: Not Always Legal]] |
| 334 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/notary-ious-behavior/115330/ How about this woman?]] [[TranquilFury She stays calm even after she's almost assaulted by a crazy woman]]. Her DeathGlare was so effective, it freaked the crazy customer out. |
| 335 | --> '''OP''': "If your next words aren't 'Have a nice day,' the police will be shown this footage." |
| 336 | * [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-t-m/186450/ This crazy woman]] got what was coming to her in a spectacular example of LaserGuidedKarma. |
| 337 | * A crazy druggie breaks into a house to kidnap a young boy.[[labelnote:Context]]The man befriended the boy's biological mother while they were both in rehab, and the latter made the mistake of telling him that she was trying to get clean so she could see her son, complete with real names. Upon getting out and falling off the wagon, the druggie decided to take the boy to see his mother (the mother didn't know about this plan).[[/labelnote]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-mother-of-all-mama-bears/219798/ The boy's stepmother has several Brazilian Jiu Jitsu awards.]] [[CurbStompBattle It ends about as well as you'd expect]]; the man was probably lucky all she did was break his arms. |
| 338 | * Another hilarious case of LaserGuidedKarma [[https://notalwaysright.com/time-to-change-your-methods/221699/ here]], featuring an attempt at invoking ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections [[EpicFail backfiring spectacularly]]. |
| 339 | * Doubling as Heartwarming, [[https://notalwaysright.com/grandpas-garage-when-charity-goes-corporate/309205/ the grandpa in this story]] comes out of retirement and converts the barn on some property he bought into a mechanic workshop where he fixes up cars for the needy as a hobby. The owner of the local car dealership and repair shop sues him for operating without a business license even though he's technically not running a business. After failing to convince the dealership owner to back down, the grandpa is told by the judge to get the proper license and insurance to continue operations. The grandpa then converts his workshop into a business that drives paying customers away from the dealership and forces the owner to sell. The grandpa works with the new owner on how to keep the shop afloat while the grandpa is able to resume fixing the cars as a hobby rather than a business for several more years until age prevents him from working any further and passes away peacefully a few years after that with nothing but fond memories of running that workshop. One of the comments sums up the whole thing perfectly: |
| 340 | -->"Moral of the story: Do not come after rich people and their retirement hobby." |
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